Social+Studies

**Economy

[|American Fact Finder]** need statistical information about the U.S.? The U.S. Department of Census offers data about national, state, or local populations; economic conditions; trends within communities; the medium income within a city; as well as quirky information such as the amount of time people within a community spend commuting to work, and even religious and genealogical facts. In addition, the [|Kids' Corner] link provides students with quizzes and games that teach them more about the state they live in and the United States in general.

 [|Economy for Kids--Scholastic Special News Report] A collection of articles that can help today's kids to understand the financial system and the current turmoil by Scholastic News Online. Don't forget to show the students "What's that Economics Word Game" to test their knowledge about important economic terms!

[|EconEdlink--Current Event] Sponsored by National Council of Ecomonic Education, EconEdlink offers a premier source of classroom tested, Internet-based economic lesson materials for K-12 teachers and their students. The educators can browse lessons by concept, types of lesson, standards, or grade level

[|Digital Library for Earth System Education] 
 * Geography**
 * DLESE** resources include electronic materials for both teachers and learners, such as lesson plans, maps, images, data sets, visualizations, assessment activities, curriculum, online courses, and much more. Resources can be found by browsing the subject lists or searching grade level (or grade range) and specific science concept. Among some of the unique resources are Virtual Fieldtrips, which provide students with the opportunity to dive with submarines to map the ocean floor, travel to the tops of mountains to learn about volcanoes, step back in time to see Yellowstone National Park, or learn about chemicals in their own homes. Included are national instructional standards as well as evaluation and assessment modules of the projects completed. For educators looking for unique resources to stretch the minds of young scientists, take a look at **DLESE**.

[|Chronicling America] Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program, **Chronicling America** is a primary source database that provides many unique perspectives on U.S. history. Users can search and view newspaper pages from 1880 to 1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690 and the present or read digitalized online pages of newspapers no longer in publication, such as: //The Los Angeles Herald, The Colored American// (Washington, DC), //The Bourbon News// (Paris, KY), and //The Jimplecute// (Jefferson, TX). News articles can also be searched by city, state, county, date of publication, ethnicity, and more.
 * Hisotry**

[|Documenting the American South] This is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to Southern history, literature, and culture. Currently **DocSouth** includes 12 thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs. Classroom activities and resources are provided in a separate portal, available at: []. Included in this toolkit are digital narratives, images, and ideas for extending the lesson plans.  [|Guide to the History Sources on the Web] This is a searchable and indexed database of more than 5,000 U.S. and world history sites. The companion site, **[|History Matters]**, is designed for high school and college teachers and students of U.S. history survey courses and serves as a gateway to resources offering unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and guides to analyzing historical evidence.

[|Native American storytellers] Circle of Stories uses documentary film, photography, artwork, and music to honor Native American storytelling. Users can learn and read about the storytellers and their tribes, or read and listen to their stories.

[|Radio Africa & Podcasts] Presented by Smithonian Global Sound in collaboration with National Musieum of African Art, the site allows users to explore the music of Africa from the rhythms of Benin to the wedding music of Ethiopia to the traditional Zulu music of South Africa to the parade music of Senegal. Click the button that syas Recording Info for more information about the songs you're listening to.

[|Rome Reborn Project] Rome Reborn is an internationally initiated digital project sponsored by the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities and directed by Professor Bernard Frischer. It offers 3-D model of the ancient city dated back to the earliest settlement in the late Bronze Age (ca. 1000 B.C.) all the way to the beginning of the medieval period. The educators can browse the gallery to find the re-creation of Collosseum, the Tabularium, the Forum of Julius Caesar; the Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine; the Temple of Venus and Rome; the Arch of Titus; the Arch of Constantine; the Flavian Amphitheater; the Ludus Magnus; the Septizodium; and the Circus Maximus, and much more.