Social Studies Resources
Interactive, fun games that require students to know content to play them.
Access movies, music, tv, news, sports, games, and ads from specific years---all the way back to 1860. This is a paid app but worth the money!
Shows the world's most important trends over time.
Cartoon characters Tim and Moby explain content in simple terms for students to understand. Each video segment is followed by a quiz to check your understanding. This is a paid subscription.
Full of kid-friendly information and links, games, and videos for elementary and middle school students.
A catalog of Dr. Suess's political cartoons. It is amazing that some of the issues stay the same over time.
Interactive maps teach students the states, countries, etc.
Browse through over 240 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. To start surfing the Wayback, type in the web address of a site or page where you would like to start, and press enter. Then select from the archived dates available. The resulting pages point to other archived pages at as close a date as possible.
Students go through a simulation of trench warfare from WWI. They have to make decisions which change the outcome.
Curation of Primary Sources
This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. Free trial available.
Videos, lesson plans, interactives, and more