Social Studies and Geography

• World Factbook contains info on all the countries of the world, including maps, pictures of flags, statistics, and info on each country's history, land, people, government and money system

• A “Qwiki” is a short, interactive story: a drastically improved information experience provided via interactive video. Unlike traditional rich media content, all Qwikis are created on the fly from web sources (without any human intervention).

• teaching resources, activities & projects, reference & news, mapping multimedia, education programs, geo-literacy

• Kidipede is a kids' encyclopedia, online since 1996. A lot of kids use Kidipede for school reports or for homeschooling. You can find out about Ancient Greece or Ancient Egypt, or how to make yogurt, or about why fires need air to burn. Kidipede will tell you who invented algebra and what Confucius said.

• A collection of resource links for your students to use throughout the year, based on the California state standards. Pages on Central Asia, China, India, West Asia, Islam, Egypt, Africa, Greece, Rome, Middle Ages, and Americas.

• An innovative site for searching for events on a timeline. This is a great site for history teacher/students looking to find events on a specific time. A user can search not only by entering a date but they can search through images and areas as well. Time Search brings up a list of events in chronological order an images as well through Google.

• Video/Article

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• Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids is brought to the World Wide Web as a service of the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO). Ben's Guide serves as the educational component of GPO Access, GPO's service to provide the official online version of legislative and regulatory information.