Social Studies

Featured content can provide other interesting activites. One in there now has a "discover africa" feature.

The lesson plan portion of the site provides free lesson plans for teachers to use. They're not always spectacular, BUT they can be helpful in gathering ideas.

Puzzlemaker provides resources/programs that can be used to enrich the learning experience of students.

This website relies on CNN's news and history sources. Although a bias to the left in general reporting must be considered when viewing most CNN articles, the information presented here is historical, and mostly evenly presented.

If I was teaching World history, I would provide this site to my students to give them a general overview of subject matter - basically giving them a big picture before divulging into the specifics. I would probably create an assignment requiring the students to use and explore this website very early on in the year.

I think this site is valuable to Social Studies teachers because it includes a great deal of information in a condensed, thematic, easily to follow manner.

This website uses music from a variety of artists to encourage teaching social studies. The songs on this site are a little cheesy for me, but they are impossible to get out of your head. I think that they could be great to incorporate multiple intelligences into a lesson. This site is valuable for social studies teachers because it provides an alternate way to introduce materials.

So clearly the coolest link on this webpage is the "History" link. This will link you to the history of the FBI which is interesting in and of itself BUT also contains some links to primary documents. For example there is a link in 1966 called "six civil rights activists murdered" that takes you to the FBI file of the murder investigation. It might be really neat to have students look at this file and look at other accounts of this incident to understand how police/FBI officers interact with communities and crime. There's another neat account under June 1933 of the Kansas City Massacre!

The "FBI Investigates" tab is a little like the spy museum. It takes you through two cases, what happened and how investigators solved the crime. For any CSI - philes this might be some great info.

"FBI Adventures" is a little not as cool as I'd hoped. While they do give brief snapshots of country profiles, students don't get to actually investigate anything on their own. What they Could do is begin to see how even crime is globalized and how countries now have to work together to protect citizens - an interesting angle on globalization/global studies.

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I know a lot of schools have community service requirements for their students; this would be a unique way of fulfilling them. I still have to stress that I think the tuition rates are MUCH too high. $5000 to volunteer for a month in India - I did the same on my own for about $400

Well researched with bibliography

You could incorporate this into any lesson plan dealing with the issue of slavery / I find the culture so fascinating I would design an entire lesson plan around it