Social Science
Recommended Links

Library of Congress:
The Library of Congress is currently digitizing select books, photographs, maps, sound recordings and moving pictures and making them available on the web in their American Memory pages.

The Library of Congress hosts an interactive web site aimed at students called America's Library. There are sections where you "Meet Amazing Americans, Jump Back in Time, Explore the States, Join America at Play, and See, Hear and Sing."

Colonial Times:
Plimoth Plantation is a unique living history experience because it recreates Plymouth, Massachussetts as it was in the 1600's. The website offers pages containing virtual tours, kids' activities and online activities, including an engaging "You are the Historian" activity.

U.S. History:
The National Archives web site has pages devoted to the Founding Fathers and the Constitution as well as the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence.

The Independence Hall Association in Philadelphia hosts, U.S. History.org, a beautiful and comprehensive site that explains the importance of Philadelphia in U.S. history. You can even take a virtual tour of the city and of course, there is an audio tour available for purchase should you decide to visit the city in person. There are links to the Liberty Bell, Ben Franklin facts, Valley Forge and other local historically interesting sites.

The American Revolution:
Kidsport is a great site for almost any grade or subject. It has a index for the American Revolution which includes several timelines.

The National Park Service oversees many national treasures and they have organized links in a website called The American Revolution: Lighting Freedom's Flame, to highlight significant events in the American Revolution.

PBS produced a series called Liberty! The American Revolution and developed a companion web site as well, also called Liberty! The American Revolution. It contains four main sections: Chronicles of a Revolution, which provides a timeline, overview and guide to battles, Liberty the Series, which is all about the making of the series, Perspectives on Liberty and an interactive game.

Slavery, the Underground Railroad and the Abolitionists:
The Library of Congress presents The Frederick Douglas Papers online. It is a digitized collection of his correspondence, speeches and drafts of his autobiography.

Civil War: Please also see the Civil War Pathfinder pages for more websites.

The Smithsonian Institutes hosts a site called CivilWar@Smithsonian and contains a timeline of events leading up to and including the war, Collections which include information on slavery and the abolitionist movement, pages on Abraham Lincoln and much more.

The National Parks Service developed a web site in anticipation of the upcoming (2011-2015) 150th anniversary of the Civil War. One of the pages is devoted to the various battle sites which have been turned into parks and memorials. They also host the Gettysburg National Military Park site.

Kidsconnect has an attractive page with links to other Civil War pages.

Kidsport is a great site for almost any grade or subject. It has an index of pages for the American Civil War as well as a timeline of events.

A site called americancivilwar.com advertises a book to buy but also provides a timeline of the American Civil War. You click on the year you are interested in and the year is synopsized with links to pages which provide more details of the events highlighted.

About.com provides a directory of sites pertaining to the Civil War if you can stand the constant pop-up advertisements.

U.S. Government:
First Gov for Kids is a well-organized index of links to all kinds of federal web sites grouped by subjects.

Have you ever wondered about the history of currency in the US? The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Currency Exhibit is an online tour of our money.

Washington D.C.
The National Parks Service maintains a series of websites on various monuments in Washington plus pages devoted to visiting the D.C. area, as well other parks and national monuments across the country.

Weta, the public broadcasting company in Washington DC, hosts an educational website about the city, its local history, the presidents and African American history. The site is called exploredc.

Immigration:
Ellis Island has an extensive web site to explore. (And it's not too far for a visit, either.)

Geography:

Maps:
Blank outline maps are available by the geography guide, Matt Rosenberg, at About.com. There are over 700 geography sites compiled here as well as the printable black-line outline maps.

Everything you ever wanted to know about mapping, definitions and more.

World:
Visit Country Reports web site to research the countries and cultures of the world. The site includes information about the country's economy, people, defense as well as links to the flags and national anthems.

Another reliable source for information on the countries of the world is the CIA World Facts site.

United States Geography:
Geobop's State and Provincial Symbols provides background on state geography and history as recommended by Classroom Connect, The K-12 Educators' Guide to the Internet.

Have you ever seen the world population clock in New York City? Well, there's a World Population Clock on the web. Visitors can compare the present population with any year back until 1970 and link to two other world population sites for comparison.

Doing a report on a state? Need to know the state capital of Kentucky? Visit 50 States and Capitals for that information and more. (The capital of Kentucky is Frankfort, by the way.) This site contains advertising which can be distracting.

Another "click the state" information site is hosted by the Internet Public Library in their Kidspace. This site contains no advertising.

The Library of Congress web pages has a clickable map of the United States. Once you choose a state to visit, there is information organized in sub-pages offering standard and unique information regarding the state.

Enchanted Learning is a commercial site, but worth the visit. Click on the name of the state you are interested in, the page with state information, ie. the state shell for New Jersey is the Knobbed Whelk. There is a link from the words Knobbed Whelk to a page with information on that animal. Not all of the state information is linked to other pages. Caveat: Contains lots of advertising and requests a subscription fee.

U. S. Holidays:

Ever wonder about just how Flag Day originated? Kidconnect has pages with information about our flag, including a short history of the holiday and flag etiquette.

Explorers and exploration:

Kidsconnect has an Explorer's page index arranged alphabetically.

Egypt:

Dictionary of Egyptian Gods

Egyptian Mythology

Glossary of Egyptian Mythology

The Pyramids:

PBS/ NOVA

Smithsonian Institute

Mummies:

Mummification	All About Mummies	Encyclopedia Smithsonian
Boston's Museum of Science

Ancient Egyptian sites:

The University of Memphis Archeology Department hosts an older website containing a clickable map containing a virtual tour of ancient Egypt.

The Cleveland Museum of Art has host, Rosetta Stone conduct visitors on a guided tour of ancient Egypt.

A visit to the Theban Mapping Project is awe-inspiring. Since 1978, archeologists working at the American University in Cairo have been mapping Egyptian tombs. There is an interactive map of the project containing movies and explanations of the tomb.

Roman:

The Roman Empire

Costumes and customs:

Costumes and dress

Archaeology/ Anthropology

Cave of Chaveut-Pont-D'arc

Ancient Greece

Ancient City of Athens: Indiana University hosts pages containing stunning photos and descriptions of various important sites from the ancient world.