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El Salvador's Coffee
Here you'll find a history of coffee exportation and plantation life in El Salvador. You can also find a general overview of El Salvador including government, geography, religion, labor, and culture.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Rivers and Streams
Learn more about Rivers and Streams through this educational resource. This site features photographs, a description, fun facts, and more about this type of freshwater ecosystem.
Rice University
Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Mathematics of Cartography
Can there be a connection between map making and math? Explore the mathematics of cartography in this resource that integrates web-based instruction, mathematical problem solving, geometry, history, and art. Interesting information and...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Step Right Up! States & Capitals
Step Right Up to a whole new way to learn about US states and capitals! In this activity kids match states with their capital cities (and vice versa) by playing an all-time favorite carnival game. Find 10 matches and take home a prize!
Social Studies Help Center
The Social Studies Help Center: How and Why Did America Expand Westward?
Notes and maps that depict how and why America expanded westward?
University of South Florida
Propel: Social Studies Education Geography
Geography studies the relationships between people, places, and environments by mapping information about them into a spatial context.
University of South Florida
University of South Florida: College of Education: Geography
Definitions of the terms used in geography. Understand different types of landforms, regions, human-environmental relationships, and places.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Native American Unit
This lesson activity introduces to the students the diversity that exists among Native Americans. It provides a map of the tribes in the United States, the tribes in various sections of the US and information about the cultures of these...
National Geographic
National Geographic: Your Ocean
This site provides a lesson plan for educators to use when teaching about the Ocean. In addition, there are many other related links and information about the ocean.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: A Look at Our Natural Environment
During this lesson students will have the opportunity to research, analyze, and collect data on how the natural environment influenced the Native Americans long ago, and how it still influences us today. Using information gathered from...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Where in the World Am I?
A collaborative distance learning project on world geography.Two classrooms will interact while solving clues about "mystery" counties.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: World Traveler
Seventh grade social studies students will create a passport and detailed daily travel journal. The project will incorporate a minimum of two types of technology as they create a narrative vividly describing a city/country. Specific...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Wandering Alabama
This lesson is a fun fact gathering mission! Alabama is rich in history, museums, natural and manmade attractions, and some just plain wacky attractions. Students will work in collaborative groups to create a guide to sites in Alabama...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Comparing Education Around the World
Students learn about Ken and Joab, two boys who are starting first grade. Ken attends school in Japan, while Joab lives in Kenya. Students compare and contrast the circumstances surrounding the two boys' experiences at school.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Youth and Education in Afghanistan: Pulitzer Center
Investigate the daily struggle faced by many Afghan students seeking an education, and the danger faced by teachers and schools working to provide these children with an experience many Americans take for granted.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Companion Curriculum: Girl Rising
Girl Rising tells the stories of nine girls from nine different countries and the power education has to change their lives. The accompanying curriculum provides teachers with a unique opportunity to educate students about the issues...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Malala Devotes Second Life to Girls' Rights: Pbs News Hour
"Today you can see that I'm alive," said Malala Yousafzai in her first interview since surviving a Taliban attack that left her with a bullet lodged in her skull last October. "This is a second life," she continued, "And I want to serve....
Crayola
Crayola: Airplane View
Show off your knowledge of geography. Draw your state, its neighbors and indicate notable landforms as if you were viewing them from the window of an airplane.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Epsid World Geo 2019
Flexbooks 2.0 are interactive, customizable, digital textbooks. Flexbooks are standards-aligned. Flexi, a student tutor, is integrated into each book to guide you on your learning journey. Flexi can assist in learning, answer questions,...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Grades 9 12 Social Studies Teacher Library
As part of Louisiana Department of Education's teacher support toolbox library, this page contains the 9-12 Social Studies resources.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Weird Wonderful West Virginia
With this learning module of videos, students will be able to discuss and examine recreation, history, exceptional individuals and groups, geography, the arts, and oddities in West Virginia. This content is appropriate for anyone with an...
Google
Google Maps: Great Barrier Reef, Australia
With these vibrant and stunning photos, you don't have to be a scuba diver-or even know how to swim-to explore and experience the Great Barrier Reef.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: America Del Norte: Mexico
This site has a map of Mexico in Spanish, with informational data also presented in Spanish about the country. Land mass, population, life expectancy, literacy, industry, agriculture, minerals and resources are among the topics...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: America Del Norte: El Salvador
This site has a map of El Salvador in Spanish, with informational data also presented in Spanish about the country. Land mass, population, life expectancy, literacy, industry, agriculture, minerals and resources are among the topics...