1. SOCIAL STUDIES WEB-BASED RESOURCES

2. WHERE DO I FIND SOCIAL STUDIES WEB- BASED RESOURCES?  Galileo  Britannica School Edition  Digital Library of Georgia  SIRS Discoverer  Cobb Virtual Library  World Book Kids  Pebble Go  Culture Grams  Georgia’s Virtual Vault  Other  Library of Congress- Digital Collections  Picture History  Teaching History  PBS Teachers K-2 Social Studies

3. GALILEO  Explore the following websites on Galileo  Britannica School Edition - http://www.school.eb.com.proxygsu- scob.galileo.usg.edu/elementaryhttp://www.school.eb.com.proxygsu- scob.galileo.usg.edu/elementary  Digital Library of Georgia - http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/  SIRS – Discoverer - http://discoverer.prod.sirs.com/discoweb/disco/do/frontpagehttp://discoverer.prod.sirs.com/discoweb/disco/do/frontpage  Now for each one I want you to find one item of information about the following topics:  Grade K: Bald Eagle  Grade 1: Theodore Roosevelt  Grade 2: Mary Musgrove  Grade 3: Paul Revere

4. BRITANNICA SCHOOL EDITION  1 st Grade Example: Theodore Roosevelt  Britannica School Edition provides articles and images about different subjects.  When the search results are displayed you can chose either article or images.

5. DIGITAL LIBRARY OF GEORGIA  2 nd Grade Example: Mary Musgrove  Here you can find digital images of famous Georgians.  There are also legal documents and newspaper articles.  Many items link to the New Georgia Encyclopedia.

6. SIRS DISCOVERER  3 rd Grade Example: Paul Revere  SIRS Discoverer lists different articles about Paul Revere  It also gives the Lexile number so you can find resources on the reading level of the students.

7. COBB VIRTUAL LIBRARY  Explore the following websites on the Cobb Virtual Library:  World Book Kids  Pebble Go  Culture Grams  Georgia’s Virtual Vault  Now for each one I want you to find one item of information about the following topics:  Grade K: U.S. Money  Grade 1: George Washington Carver  Grade 2: Jimmy Carter  Grade 3: Mississippi River

8. WORLD BOOK KIDS  3 rd Grade Example: Mississippi River  On World Book Kids, students are able to information about many different topics.  For each article the students can listen to the article be read out loud. The Lexile information is given for each article.  This resource also provides photographs and maps.

9. PEBBLE GO  2 nd Grade Example: Jimmy Carter  This is a great resource for finding information about people.  There is a time line and video for each person. Their life is broken up into five different tabs that explain about their life.  For teachers, there is an activity worksheet to help the students take notes.

10. CULTURE GRAMS  K Grade Example: U.S. Money  Culture Grams gives information about countries and states. It shows what different countries look like through pictures and videos.  One interesting feature is that it gives recipes from different countries.  Also gives information on history, lifestyle, society and culture for a country.

11. GEORGIA’S VIRTUAL VAULT  1 st Grade Example: George Washington Carver  Provides photographs of different people that influenced Georgia.  It provides manuscripts, photographs, maps, and government records from 1733 to the present.

12. OTHER RESOURCES  Library of Congress- Digital Collections - http://www.loc.gov/index.htmlhttp://www.loc.gov/index.html  Picture History- www.picturehistory.comwww.picturehistory.com  Teaching History - http://teachinghistory.org/http://teachinghistory.org/  PBS Teachers K-2 Social Studies - http://www.pbs.org/teachers/classroom/k-2/social-studies/resources/ http://www.pbs.org/teachers/classroom/k-2/social-studies/resources/  Now for each one I want you to find one item of information about the following topics:  Kindergarten: White House  1 st Grade: Thomas Jefferson  2 nd Grade: Jackie Robinson  Third Grade: Ancient Greece

13. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS  1 st Grade Example: Thomas Jefferson  The Library of Congress Digital Collection includes all types of information in a digital format. There are videos, pictures, maps, manuscripts etc. to view on this website.

14. PICTURE HISTORY  K Grade example: White house  Picture History is a website that provides images of different time periods, buildings, people, etc. in history.  The pictures are all primary sources of information.

15. TEACHING HISTORY  2 nd Grade Example: Jackie Robinson  This website gives teachers materials, content and best practices.  There are videos, lesson plans, and photographs.

16. PBS TEACHERS  3 rd Grade Example: Ancient Greece  PBS Teachers offers a variety of lesson plans, videos, and online activities for students and teachers.  There are articles with photographs and videos from television programs such as NOVA and Nature.

17. INTEGRATION  How do you integrate these sources into your lessons?  Here is a second grade example:  Standards:  Social Studies  SS2HI.a Identifies and describes historical figures and their contributions  Identifies and describes the contributions of James Oglethorpe, Mary Musgrove, and Tomochichi  English Language Arts  ELACC2RI1: Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.  21 st Century Learner (AASL)  1.1.4 Find, evaluate, and select appropriate sources to answer questions.  National Technology Standards for Students and Teachers  Teachers 3 d. Model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning

18. INTEGRATION  While studying your important figures, use web-based resources to have students ask and answer WH questions.  In a pair, have students go to two different web-based resources on each person. Have each student write a who, what, where, when, why and how question from the information on that page. Then have the students switch questions and have the students answer their partners questions.  In addition you can incorporate writing by having them write a paragraph about each person.

19. INTEGRATION RESOURCES  James Oglethorpe  Britannica School Edition - http://www.school.eb.com.proxygsu-scob.galileo.usg.edu/elementary/article?articleId=345472#254662.tochttp://www.school.eb.com.proxygsu-scob.galileo.usg.edu/elementary/article?articleId=345472#254662.toc  Digital Library of Georgia - http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/cgi- bin/meta.cgi?userid=public&dbs=meta&action=retrieve&recno=1&rset=003&format=dlg&h2=zlgbhttp://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/cgi- bin/meta.cgi?userid=public&dbs=meta&action=retrieve&recno=1&rset=003&format=dlg&h2=zlgb  SIRS Discoverer - http://discoverer.prod.sirs.com/discoweb/disco/do/article?urn=urn%3Asirs%3AUS%3BARTICLE%3BART%3B0000291921http://discoverer.prod.sirs.com/discoweb/disco/do/article?urn=urn%3Asirs%3AUS%3BARTICLE%3BART%3B0000291921  World Book Kids - http://www.worldbookonline.com/kids/article?id=ar836329&st=james+oglethorpehttp://www.worldbookonline.com/kids/article?id=ar836329&st=james+oglethorpe  PebbleGo - http://www.pebblego.com/content/biographies/pgo_player.phphttp://www.pebblego.com/content/biographies/pgo_player.php  Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005688536/http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005688536/  Mary Musgrove  Digital Library of Georgia - http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/cgi- bin/meta.cgi?userid=public&dbs=meta&action=retrieve&recno=1&rset=004&format=dlg&h2=ngenhttp://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/cgi- bin/meta.cgi?userid=public&dbs=meta&action=retrieve&recno=1&rset=004&format=dlg&h2=ngen  World Book Kids - http://www.worldbookonline.com/kids/article?id=ar839108&st=Mary+Musgrovehttp://www.worldbookonline.com/kids/article?id=ar839108&st=Mary+Musgrove  PebbleGo - http://www.pebblego.com/content/biographies/pgo_player.phphttp://www.pebblego.com/content/biographies/pgo_player.php  Teaching History - http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/website-reviews/23362http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/website-reviews/23362  Tomochichi  Digital Library of Georgia - http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/cgi- bin/meta.cgi?userid=public&dbs=meta&action=retrieve&recno=2&rset=005&format=dlg&h2=ngenhttp://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/cgi- bin/meta.cgi?userid=public&dbs=meta&action=retrieve&recno=2&rset=005&format=dlg&h2=ngen  World Book Kids- http://www.worldbookonline.com/kids/article?id=ar839175&st=james+oglethorpehttp://www.worldbookonline.com/kids/article?id=ar839175&st=james+oglethorpe  Georgia Virtual Library - http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us:8888/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/cac&CISOPTR=129&CISOBOX=1&REC=4http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us:8888/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/cac&CISOPTR=129&CISOBOX=1&REC=4