Social Studies Websites
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The mix of activities at MoneyVille offers enough interesting and fun activities that kids will have a blast without even realizing that they're also learning a great deal about money and how budgeting and finances work.
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(09/12/2011)
http://moneyville.co.uk
The University of Manchester offers a creative and innovative online learning portal for children, and it's called the Children's University of Manchester. Subjects include the environment, earth and space, the brain and senses and much more.
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(05/31/2011)
http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/
Anne Frank was a young girl that, through the simple act of keeping a diary during one of Europe's most troubled times in history, provided the world with a terrible glimpse into World War II. At AnneFrank.org, you can learn a great deal about the life of this amazing young girl and her family's story.
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(05/24/2011)
http://www.annefrank.org
At Mission U.S., a brand new online history game, you have an opportunity to enter into the world of 1770 Boston, in colonial America, when some of the colonists were still loyal to the Crown, while the Patriots began drumming up support for the opposition.
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(09/20/2010)
http://www.mission-us.org
In National Geographic Kids, children can play interactive adventures, solve puzzles and quizzes and play numerous other games that teach children a great deal about nature, geography, conservation and more.
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(03/22/2010)
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
The Breathing Earth is a Flash visualization of world population growth, births, deaths and carbon emissions. A great starting point for discussions with kids about the climate change.
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(10/16/2009)
http://www.breathingearth.net/
Playing History is a website that catalogs and rates the best free online history games and simulations. Browse through subjects such as American history, British history, ancient history or World War II.
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(10/16/2009)
http://playinghistory.org
Statplanet is a free data visualization tool that lets you discover facts about world development using colored maps and graphs.
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(11/03/2008)
http://www.sacmeq.org/statplanet/
The website benfranklin300.org was created to celebrate the 300th-year anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth (1706-2006). It includes a great interactive historical timeline where you can learn about the life of Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers.
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(05/15/2008)
http://www.benfranklin300.org/timeline/
The nobelprize.org website hosts a large collection of high quality educational Flash games, on subjects related to the Nobel Prize. The productions are aimed at young people, who may know about the Nobel Prizes and the Nobel Laureates, but often lack a deeper understanding about the Nobel Prize-awarded works.
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(02/01/2008)
http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/
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There are plenty of websites that offer a variety of maps for teachers in exchange for a paid membership or for single purchase, but finding free blank maps for teachers usually proves rather difficult. The following are six of the best resources where you will find both labeled and blank maps for use inside and outside the classroom.
Whether you teach English, History or Science, current events and news make for excellent classroom learning material. The following list are ten of the best news and current event websites online that offer not only news, but also activities and other interesting content that kids love
