Planning & Education
Social Studies Projects & Resources
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NOTE TO USERS: Most of the sites
provided in the education pages are either from government, non-profit, or
educational agencies; however, some of the sites are commercial and are included
because of the array of materials provided in the site. The education pages
are provided as a public service and are not meant to endorse one site over
another nor to endorse any commercial enterprise. Site suggestions are welcome,
although all suggestions will go through a screening process. In order to
suggest a site for inclusion, email the Planning
Department.
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GENERAL RESOURCES
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SOCIAL
STUDIES SOURCES
A comprehensive collection of teaching materials for K-12 social
studies teachers and students, including materials on General History, Government
and Politics, Geography, World History, News Sources, Global and International
Studies, Cultural Diversity, and U.S. History.
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SOCIAL STUDIES SCHOOL
SERVICES
Although this is a commercial site (and therefore is attempting
to sell educational materials), the site provides a fairly extensive collection
of online resources and teaching materials (including projects and instructional
activities).
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AMERICAN
STUDIES WEB
Hosted and maintained by
Crossroads,Georgetown University affiliated program, the American Studies
Web was originally created by David
Phillips, a doctoral candidate at Yale University, in 1994. The American
Studies Web represents one of the single best resources on the Web for subjects
related to American Studies, Art & Material Culture, Regional and Environmental
Studies, Sociology and Demographics, Philosophy & Religion, History, Economics,
Political Science, and Literature and the Performing Arts.
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HUMANITIES
INDEX
Created and maintained by the faculty of the Arts and Humanities
program at Goteborg University, in Sweden. Like the American Studies Web,
the Wold Wide Web Virtual Library on the Humanities offers a broad range of
materials on Archaeology, History, Philosophy, Religion, Art History, History
of Science, and Literature and Language, albeit with a far more global emphasis.
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VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE
A general reference site from the University of California,
Santa Barbara, The Voice of the Shuttle website provides materials on a broad
range of traditional (History, Art and Classical Studies, Literature, and
Philosophy) and non-traditional subjects, including Cyberculture, Media Studies,
Postindustrial Business Theory, and Music and Dance. In addition to subject
pages, the Voice of the Shuttle site offers links to teaching resources, libraries
and museums, and reference resources.
GOVERNMENT RESOURCES
The site includes Historical Highlights of the U.S. House of
Representatives, a virtual tour of National Statuary Hall, Election Information
(including statistics) from 1920 to 1998, teaching materials, and specific information
on legislation, House committees, and members of the House of Representatives.
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