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Jeremiah Tellers Steven Drouin Tefel Hall Professor Beatty 13 January 2004
Instructional Technology for Social Studies Teachers
Presentations http://www.pinnaclesys.com/ One of the low end programs teachers and student may use to edit video for in- class presentations. Not as powerful as adobe and other editors but great for the price. On amazon.com the price was about 50 dollars. Packages are available that include a hardware capture card.
Power Point—a great way to make slide shows! Students can soak up information with their eyes as well as their ears, and getting students to do their own presentations is a great way to teach them about basic computer technology.
Interactive Websites and Other Resources 1. www.bbc.co.uk/history/multimedia_zone/virtual_tours This site is good example of virtual tours that students can use to have a visual representation of what your lesson is covering. As if they were there! http://www.maritime.org/tour/index.htm Another example of interactive tours. 2. http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/ Great source for all teachers. Provides a student with a template to create pie charts, line graphs and bar graphs. 3. http://www.ourtimelines.com/create_tl_2c.html Another great example for student interaction with technology. A gem for history teachers. This site enables students to create a historical timeline. 4. http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic Provides students with up to date currency values around the world. Perfect for classes in Economics. 5. http://www.banknotes.com/images.htm Great site for students to view and print currency for reports in history or economics. 6. http://www.si.edu/ The website to the Smithsonian Institute. This is great site for students studying U.S. history. Can view exhibits and other artifacts online that played a great significance in the history of the U.S. 7. http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html 2
Primary Resources; the bread and butter of all historical research. This is a great site that lists over 5000 approved sites for historical research. Plus you can mail links to other teachers. 8. http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive1.html Great site to help students with their research. Helps students listen to history! Not only is it a primary resource but it is from the person who said it! 9. http://www.thecoo.edu/~apeter/geography_sites.htm A website that links students to various geography sites. Great source to find land formations, population and flags. Great for reports and statistics.
10. http://www.findet.de/exchange.html Useful tool for teachers to easily convert currencies when doing project related to economics or studies concerned with foreign countries. Could also be used in the classroom for students to do on the own. 11. http://www.encyclopedia.com/ Easily accessible resources for general topics found in a physical encyclopedia. 12. http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/world.htm Teachers can look up maps as well as get some basic information about many countries. 13. www.jstor.org Access can be found here from several scholarly journals such as the American Economic Review (1911-2000), the Geographical Review (1916-1998) and the American Historical Review (1895-1999). Articles are in full text PDF format and fully downloadable. 14. http://www.lexis-nexis.com/ Research current and archived articles from newspapers in different areas of search. Variations include: U.S. News, General News, and University News. Individual sections can also be categorized geographically. For example World News is broken down into North/South America, European, and Asia/Pacific News Sources. Also useful as a statistical resource. 15. http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/ Schools of California Online Resources for Education Amazing resource including: Professional development, Internet classrooms, teacher talk etc. Also includes standards, assessment resources, and virtual projects & field trips, as well sample lesson plans by grade level. 16. http://www.jmu.edu/madison/madison.htm This site provides information about the life of James Madison through a presentation of primary sources. Also links to other resources related to the President. 17. http://www.napoleonguide.com/revolt.htm Great site including resources based on Napoleon Bonaparte’s: life, war career, and death. Included are art, films and games as well as maps and links to other sites. 18. http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/ The Library of Congress’ website has a fully interactive exhibitions as well as links to other resources related to a wide variety of topics. 19. http://www.pbs.org Great site for both research as well as schedules for upcoming programming. 3
20. http://congress.org/congressorg/home/ A great site for teaching kids about civics. Type in your zipcode and the program will tell you who your representatives are and how you can contact them easily, either by email or by writing them a letter.
21. http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/ This site is sponsored by the Nebraska Department of Education. It divides resources into Standards (for Nebraska), civics, economics, history, and geography. It also contains links to social studies software and diverse educational organizations. 22. http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/bones.html A basic tutorial on searching the web, broken down into seventeen short lessons. Each lesson requires only a few minutes. 23. http://www.bham.wednet.edu/bio/biomak2.htm This site, called Biography Maker, is a guide to writing biographies, with an emphasis on basic writing skills. This site would be good for students who think that a biography is nothing but a long list of dates and facts. 24. http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/virtproj.html A site with many virtual projects and field trips. Tour West Africa, visit Mayan Ruins, or Accompany James Cook on his famous voyage. About sixty tours in all, and most of them are interactive, not just links to information pages. 25. http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/government.html An American History and Government Hotlist. This site is broken down into American History (70 sites), American Government (13 sites), Historical Documents (5 sites), and teacher resources (9 sites). [Check out History #70, Growth of a Nation, on Macromedia Flash Player]. 26. http://members.cox.net/dboals/boals.html A history and social studies website for K-12 teachers. Contains hundreds of links in 26 different categories. Virtual tours, resources, interactive adventures, and more. 27. http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/gradelevel.html This page contains resources and lessons by grade level (K-12). Following the California curriculum, each grade is divided into units, with links to resources and activities. This page is part of the Score website (http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/index.html), which also has links to lessons on internet technology (Power Point, search engines, creating modules, etc), virtual tours, and supporting organizations. 28. http://www.lburkhart.com/elem/guide.htm Guidelines for planning student internet experiences. 29. http://www.kn.pacbell.com/news/july2003/socialstudies.htm An article entitled “Integrating Technology into the Social Studies Classroom.” The author gives suggestions on how to use primary sources, online images, research, Webquests, online collaboration tools, digital video, videoconferencing, presentation software, current events websites, parent communication tools, etc. The page has links to the relevant resources. 30. http://www.middleweb.com/mw/aaHotLinks.html Contains many links for middle school teachers. 31. http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/ 4
Contains lesson plans for K-12, searchable by grade or subject. Most of the lessons have at least some interactive features. This is part of the Discovery School, a website affiliated with the TV channel. 32. http://www.birdville.k12.tx.us/instruction/ss2/SS%20Resources/Web-Based %20Interactive%20Social%20Studies%20Lessons.htm A fantastic resource for web-based interactive social studies lessons/activities/projects. Follow the link to the BISD Social Studies Instructional Homepage for even more resources, divided into curriculum, assessment, and resources