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Geographical Perspectives
Regions, Location, Place	Communities - Animated Field trips to various parts of your community. Looking After Each Other - A community is a very important place where people do their jobs and look after each other. Worksheets are used for follow up activities. Landform Definitions - quiz to be answers whole class or printed out for individual assignments. Landforms of the World - (site may be blocked by some school filters)
Map Skills	Finding The Way - Learn how to find your way around the streets of Europe. Investigate navigational tools, and how to make your own compass. Discover how Dolphins navigate. Map Skills - Maps show us many types of information. We can learn about a country's landforms, weather, population…… almost anything simply by reading a map! National Atlas of the United States - Use this interactive service to draw maps of various complexity. Map Adventures - online lesson to guide young students in basic concepts for visualizing objects from different perspectives and how to understand and use maps symbols and scales. Maps, maps, and more maps! - an index to map lessons and map quizzes Using Map Scales - a lesson followed by interactive practice Can You Read a Map? - quiz to be answers whole class or printed out for individual assignments.
Human Environment and Systems, Effects on Society	I am Responsible - Unit discussing responsibilities. Customs Around the World - Brief introduction to numerous customs in each season of the year.
Process, Investigation	Orientometer - Discover the directions in this interactive game. Climate Map - Check out the climate of the world. Raw Materials and the Finished Product - A worksheet in .pdf format that matches the raw material with the finished product
Historical And Cultural Perspectives.
Time, Continuity, and Change	Native Americans - Art, Daily Life, Maps, Pictures and Research.
People, Places and Events	Learning and Teaching about Native Americans -list of sites that focus on teaching about Native Americans Southwest Native Americans - Basic information about the Southwest Native Americans. Florida's Hidden Treasure, St. Augustine - Graphic and textual article about St. Augustine. History of St. Augustine - The story of the founding of St. Augustine. A Colonial Family - Read about this family, then interact with movies, questions, and photos. Answer questions about life in early times Explore the World of Early America - Check out the original papers from early times; from obits of famous Americans to maps to biographies and pictures. Colonial Times - Thinkquest Life on Plymouth Plantation - Interactive online lesson with many activities. Southern Colonies - Multilink site about colonial times and people U.S. Territorial Maps 1775-1920- Read and interpret maps on Western Expansion.
Timelines	An Internet4Classrooms page devoted to timelines Reading a Timeline - A timeline of events to interpret in a class lesson. Generate your own timeline - A fantastic site to help students learn to read a horizontal timeline. Each student can create his/her own timeline! A timeline of school events could be created! Only the imagination limits you! Martin Luther King Timeline - His life events on a timeline.

General Sites with Social Studies Skills

Social Studies Curriculum Resources Poster Sets -Individual posters; resources which would facilitate the teaching of social studies standards. Excellent Visuals!

Civics and Government
Basic Concepts	Ben's Guide to the U.S. Government- Basic Civics lessons about government, symbols, judicial branches and more. PBS Kids Democracy Project - How does government affect your life? Why do we need government? How Laws Are Made - Explanation of the process of lawmaking, tracking a bill in progress. Stand up for your Rights - Stories from the past on how individuals fought for their rights. Three Branches of Government - Online Quiz
American Ideals, Citizenship	Core Rights of Freedom - Great site individualizes each right for discussion. Citizenship - All aspects of being a citizen covered. Being a Good Citizen - Instill the virtue of citizenship by explaining the difference between good and bad citizenship.
Economic Perspectives
Production and Distribution	Production, Distribution and Consumers - a lesson (in .pdf format) that can be printed and discussed in class. Basic Fact Sheet on Economics. Goods and Services - Online interactive lesson. Goods, Services, and Producers - This lesson is designed to review the concepts of goods, services, and producers Delivering the Goods - Online interactive lesson on goods and products. Goods - Online interactive quiz about goods. Another Goods online Quiz Services - Online interactive quiz about services. Resources - Find the section of the picture that indicates the type of resource addressed. Good interactive quiz. Basic Third Grade Economics - quiz to be answers whole class or printed out for individual assignments.
Production Maps
Science, Technology, Society	Field Corn Production Map - Use this map as a tool to help students read and analyze map data. Jobs and Housing Map - Compare jobs with where people live. Transportation Timeline - See the changes throughout the year in the way people travel from place to place. Population Study - lesson on Population Crowding in the States. Students will be reading information from graphs, analyzing data and making predictions from the information gathered.