SOCIAL STUDIES WEB-BASED RESOURCES

WHERE DO I FIND SOCIAL STUDIES WEB-BASED RESOURCES? Galileo

Britannica School Edition Digital Library of Georgia SIRS Discoverer

Cobb Virtual Library World Book Kids Pebble Go Culture Grams Georgia’s Virtual Vault

Other Library of Congress- Digital

Collections Picture History Teaching History PBS Teachers K-2 Social

Studies

GALILEO

Explore the following websites on Galileo Britannica School Edition - http://

www.school.eb.com.proxygsu-scob.galileo.usg.edu/elementary Digital Library of Georgia - http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ SIRS – Discoverer - http://

discoverer.prod.sirs.com/discoweb/disco/do/frontpage

Now for each one I want you to find one item of information about the following topics: Grade K: Bald Eagle Grade 1: Theodore Roosevelt Grade 2: Mary Musgrove Grade 3: Paul Revere

BRITANNICA SCHOOL EDITION

1st Grade Example: Theodore Roosevelt Britannica School Edition provides articles and images about

different subjects. When the search results are displayed you can chose either article

or images.

DIGITAL LIBRARY OF GEORGIA

2nd Grade Example: Mary Musgrove Here you can find digital images of famous Georgians. There are also legal documents and newspaper articles. Many items link to the New Georgia Encyclopedia.

SIRS DISCOVERER

3rd Grade Example: Paul Revere SIRS Discoverer lists different articles about Paul Revere It also gives the Lexile number so you can find resources on the

reading level of the students.

COBB VIRTUAL LIBRARY

Explore the following websites on the Cobb Virtual Library: World Book Kids Pebble Go Culture Grams Georgia’s Virtual Vault

Now for each one I want you to find one item of information about the following topics:

Grade K: U.S. Money Grade 1: George Washington Carver Grade 2: Jimmy Carter Grade 3: Mississippi River

WORLD BOOK KIDS

3rd Grade Example: Mississippi River On World Book Kids, students are able to information about many

different topics. For each article the students can listen to the article be read out

loud. The Lexile information is given for each article. This resource also provides photographs and maps.

PEBBLE GO

2nd Grade Example: Jimmy Carter This is a great resource for finding information about people. There is a time line and video for each person. Their life is broken up

into five different tabs that explain about their life. For teachers, there is an activity worksheet to help the students take

notes.

CULTURE GRAMS

K Grade Example: U.S. Money Culture Grams gives information about countries and states. It

shows what different countries look like through pictures and videos. One interesting feature is that it gives recipes from different

countries. Also gives information on history, lifestyle, society and culture for a

country.

GEORGIA’S VIRTUAL VAULT

1st Grade Example: George Washington Carver Provides photographs of different people that influenced Georgia. It provides manuscripts, photographs, maps, and government

records from 1733 to the present.

OTHER RESOURCES

Library of Congress- Digital Collections - http://www.loc.gov/index.html

Picture History- www.picturehistory.com Teaching History - http://teachinghistory.org/ PBS Teachers K-2 Social Studies -

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/classroom/k-2/social-studies/resources/ Now for each one I want you to find one item of information about

the following topics: Kindergarten: White House 1st Grade: Thomas Jefferson 2nd Grade: Jackie Robinson Third Grade: Ancient Greece

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

1st Grade Example: Thomas Jefferson The Library of Congress Digital Collection includes all types of

information in a digital format. There are videos, pictures, maps, manuscripts etc. to view on this website.

PICTURE HISTORY

K Grade example: White house Picture History is a website that provides images of different time

periods, buildings, people, etc. in history. The pictures are all primary sources of information.

TEACHING HISTORY

2nd Grade Example: Jackie Robinson This website gives teachers materials, content and best practices. There are videos, lesson plans, and photographs.

PBS TEACHERS

3rd Grade Example: Ancient Greece PBS Teachers offers a variety of lesson plans, videos, and online

activities for students and teachers. There are articles with photographs and videos from television

programs such as NOVA and Nature.

INTEGRATION

How do you integrate these sources into your lessons? Here is a second grade example:

Standards: Social Studies

SS2HI.a Identifies and describes historical figures and their contributions

Identifies and describes the contributions of James Oglethorpe, Mary Musgrove, and Tomochichi

English Language Arts

ELACC2RI1: Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

21st Century Learner (AASL)

1.1.4 Find, evaluate, and select appropriate sources to answer questions.

National Technology Standards for Students and Teachers

Teachers 3 d. Model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning

INTEGRATION

While studying your important figures, use web-based resources to have students ask and answer WH questions.

In a pair, have students go to two different web-based resources on each person. Have each student write a who, what, where, when, why and how question from the information on that page. Then have the students switch questions and have the students answer their partners questions.

In addition you can incorporate writing by having them write a paragraph about each person.

INTEGRATION RESOURCES James Oglethorpe

Britannica School Edition - http://www.school.eb.com.proxygsu-scob.galileo.usg.edu/elementary/article?articleId=345472#254662.toc

Digital Library of Georgia - http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/cgi-bin/meta.cgi?userid=public&dbs=meta&action=retrieve&recno=1&rset=003&format=dlg&h2=zlgb

SIRS Discoverer - http://discoverer.prod.sirs.com/discoweb/disco/do/article?urn=urn%3Asirs%3AUS%3BARTICLE%3BART%3B0000291921

World Book Kids - http://www.worldbookonline.com/kids/article?id=ar836329&st=james+oglethorpe PebbleGo - http://www.pebblego.com/content/biographies/pgo_player.php Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005688536/

Mary Musgrove Digital Library of Georgia - http://

dlg.galileo.usg.edu/cgi-bin/meta.cgi?userid=public&dbs=meta&action=retrieve&recno=1&rset=004&format=dlg&h2=ngen

World Book Kids - http://www.worldbookonline.com/kids/article?id=ar839108&st=Mary+Musgrove PebbleGo - http://www.pebblego.com/content/biographies/pgo_player.php Teaching History - http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/website-reviews/23362

Tomochichi Digital Library of Georgia - http://

dlg.galileo.usg.edu/cgi-bin/meta.cgi?userid=public&dbs=meta&action=retrieve&recno=2&rset=005&format=dlg&h2=ngen

World Book Kids- http://www.worldbookonline.com/kids/article?id=ar839175&st=james+oglethorpe Georgia Virtual Library - http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us:8888/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/

cac&CISOPTR=129&CISOBOX=1&REC=4