Social Studies Links

Blank & Outline Maps
http://geography.about.com/cs/blankoutlinemaps/
This site has many blank & outline maps for the US, Countries and the World

.Washington State History Museum
http://www.wshs.org/wshm/hall.htm

Virtual Civilization/Ancient Civilization Webquest for 6th Grade
http://staff.edmonds.wednet.edu/users/muzzom/socialstudies/virtciv.html

Revolutionary War Links
http://www.soderbergworld.com/revwar.html

Northwest Native American Resource Page
http://staff.edmonds.wednet.edu/users/daughertya/nwcoastresources.html
Contains folktale, tribe and region links

Oregon Trail
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=277
Oregon Trail lesson

Early Civilizations
http://www.linktolearning.com/civilizations/civilizations.htm

Amazon Interactive: How rainy is the rainforest?
http://www.eduweb.com/rain/rainfall.html
This site allows you to compare the rainfall in your area of the USA to that of the Amazon Rainforest.

Animals of the Rainforest
http://www.animalsoftherainforest.com/frames.htm
Animals of the rainforest can be found here.

Amazon Interactive
http://www.eduweb.com/amazon.html
Interactive learning about the Amazon Rainforest.

Animals of the Rainforest
http://www.animalsoftherainforest.com/frames.htm
Animals of the rainforest can be found here.

History Link
http://www.historylink.org/
Washington State history images & articles galore can be found here. This is the online encyclopedia of Seattle, King County and Washington State.

Footnotes to History
http://www.buckyogi.com/footnotes/
This site features information about nations that are not typically learned about in school. There is also little-known information about events in US history.

History's Women
http://www.historyswomen.com/
History about women and their contributions.

Social Studies for Washington Students and Teachers
http://www.learningspace.org/socialstudies/default.html
Webmaster Gary Cressman has put together a comprehensive list of K-12 Social Studies links and resources. Washington state SS frameworks can also be found here.

SCORE K-12 Social Studies and Science Lessons & Resources
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
Schools of California Online Resources for Education (SCORE) has put together a list of K-12 resources, Virtual Projects & FieldTrips, History-Social Science, Literature, Online News Sources as well as lessons (many web based), that can be searched by either topic or grade level.

Kent SD Social Studies Links
http://www.kent.wednet.edu:80/KSD/DE/research/soc_studies.html

Biography Links
http://www.soderbergworld.com/biographies.html

Links for Learning Web Bytes, Web Lessons & Webquests
http://www.linksforlearning.org/webbytes.html

Links for Learning Comprehensive Sites
http://www.linksforlearning.org/comprehensivesites.html

Whitehouse for Kids
http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/whlife/index.html

Smithsonian History & Culture Links
http://www.si.edu/history_and_culture/

Densho Project
http://www.densho.org/
The Densho website was developed and is maintained by Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project in Seattle, Washington. If you are looking for Japanese internment and/or civil rights information, then this is the site to visit.

Exploratorium
http://www.exploratorium.edu/
The museum of science, art and perception from San Fransisco is here. There are many experiments, resource links, teacher ideas, etc. here.

World Factbook
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/factbook/
Yahoo has put together the U.S. government's complete geographical handbook. Included are full-color maps and flags of all nations. Each country profile tracks such demographics as population, ethnicity and literacy rates, as well as political, geographical and economic data.

Washington State Social Studies Site
http://www.learningspace.org/socialstudies/soc_st_subjects/subject.html
Lots of good SS resources can be found here.

Sperling’s BestPlaces
http://www.bestplaces.net/html/citycompare.asp
Compare two different cities in the U.S. either from the same or different states.

XPEDITIONS ATLAS
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/index.html
This service from National Geographic lets you print out
maps of the world, the seven continents, or the three
North American countries. Available as detailed, basic,
and with or without country borders.