Social+Studies

=**Welcome to the Social Studies Site for Brandywine Teachers!**=

Thank you for visiting our Social Studies page. I will use this webpage to post useful resources for you as well as sample lesson ideas. Please use the discussion feature of this page to post comments/ideas for your instructional technology coach. I will use this discussion thread to gather your ideas for my future research and post new resources to help you implement technology in your lessons.

CFF Social Studies
50 States Psychology

**Resources**
Holocaust Memorial Museum- This site includes a bunch of good activities with primary source documents.

History Tours- "History Tours is a collaborative website that gives teachers access to pre-made Google Earth tours on various topics in American and World history."

[|Maps of War]- Maps-of-War presents a special list of the best multimedia war maps from across the world wide web.

[|Gapminder]- "This website, powered by Trendalyzer, enables you to explore the changing world from your own computer. Moving graphics show the development of all countries by the indicators you choose."

[|TakingITGlobal - Inspire. Inform. Involve.]- TIG is an international youth-oriented social networking community. Teachers in CFF have the opportunity to set up private or public electronic classroom space where students can work on projects and invite international collaboration. Give your students access to global perspectives on global issues, new ways to express their creativity, and tools to better engage them in their education - all in an environment that you control.

[|The Living Room Candidate]- The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2004 is an exhibition featuring more than 250 campaign commercials from every presidential election since 1952.

[|Fantasy Congress - Where People Play Politics]- Fantasy Congress is similar to Fantasy Football. You choose members of congress and earn points for bills that get passed and other activities.

[|The National Archives]

[|World Map]- A tool that allows you to color code a world map

**Charitable Websites**
[|Small Things Challenge] - The Intel Corporation has teamed up with [|Kiva] and [|Save the Children’s Rewrite the Future] program to create the Small Things Challenge. When you visit this site, simply click on “We’ll Donate 5 Cents For You”, fill in the text box on the next page with the authenticity phrase, and you’re done.

[|Free Rice] - Some of our teachers are already using this excellent resource for either their students benefit or for the simple pleasure of improving their vocabulary. For each word you determine the correct meaning for, Free Rice will donate 10 grains of rice to feed to the UN World Food Program to help fight hunger.

[|Free Poverty] From the site: FreePoverty.com allows everyone to contribute in donating water to people from all over the world who live in extreme poverty. By letting users locate places on the map, their accuracy will determine how many cups of water will be donated on their behalf. Therefore, FreePoverty aims to: -Provide clean drinking water to those in need -Make users realize that they can make a difference -Let users learn something about geography that they may have not known before

[|The Breast Cancer Site]

**Family Tree**
[|Geni] [|My Heritage] [|DynasTree]