Online Social Studies Resources

I went to a fantastic workshop today at St. Lawrence Lewis BOCES by Emily Derouchie-McMahon and Markie Hooper regarding online resources to use in my social studies classroom. Since my students love anything that has to do with technology I knew I'd picked a winner even before we started...I thought I was pretty tech savvy, but realized that there were MANY resources I'd never heard of. I particularly liked a web based program called Text Compactor. I've already used it to create several deep reading activities with primary sources. Check out these sites for yourself: Online Resources for Social Studies Presentation: http://www.sllmsworkshops.blogspot.com/ nikon.com--This Day perfectstorms.history.ca padlet.com 100 Years of Rock-- http://www.concerthotels.com/100-years-of-rock http://timeline.americanrevolutioncenter.org/ Make timelines-- http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/timeline_2/ Meograph.com-- http://www.meograph.com/ PBS Current Event contest using Meograph: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/2013/12/my-zeitgeist-2013/ Fresh Prep-- raps, games http://www.myfreshprep.org/ Newspaper map: newspapers from around the world http://newspapermap.com/ Text compactor-- http://textcompactor.com/