Social+Studies

=Welcome to the Social Studies Page!=

Daily current events with discussion questions: []
Originial Harper's Weekly Civil War Newspapers: [] The Authentic History Center-artifacts/primary sources and sounds from American popular culture: [] Picturing America--pictures info and links to the Library of Congress, sorted by categories: [|http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/index.php?sec=home] Show USA--an interactive map that resizes with respect to different aspects of population, etc. : [] Show World--same as above, but a world map: [] Earth Album--a Google Maps/Flickr mashup--click on a location to see photos from that place, photos change weekly: [] Virtual Field Trip: Ancient Egyptian Art: [] Latin America Map game: http://www.maps.com/games/quiz-latin.aspx Flags of the World: a searchable database of the world's flags: http://flagspot.net/flags/ World Flag Database: http://www.flags.net/ Information Literacy Questions to ask about a map (Noodle tools): http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/spatial/infolitmap.html

American Immigration 1830-1920: [] Interactive map showing where different immigrant groups settled in the US: [] Searchable database from Harvard: [] New York's Tenement Museum: [] PBS Destination America: [] Poetry written on walls of Angel Island by Chinese immigrants: [] Two sites about Angel Island: [] [] Ellis Island's official site: [] Kid friendly immigration site from Scholastic: []
 * Great immigration sites**:

Historical images from around the world, works with Google Maps: http://www.histografica.com/ List of Historical Fiction set in Asia: http://wonderlandofbooks.blogspot.com/2009/01/middle-grade-historical-fiction-set-in.html All things Thomas Jefferson (activities, images, resources): [] The Newseum displays daily newspaper front pages from all over the world in their original, unedited form. Some front pages may contain material that is objectionable to some visitors. Viewer discretion is advised. [] World stats updated in real time: [] Virtual Field Trip to the Liberty Bell Museum: []

The Mesa County Kid's Voting site: [] A wiki full of links to official websites: http://coloradopolitics.wikispaces.com/ (Thanks to Jen Wodlinger, RMS Librarian) A shortened voting guide with links for Mesa County issues and candidates, as well as info and links for presidential candidates: [] (Thanks to Becky Johnson, EMS Librarian) A link to a slide show of current election editorial cartoons from NPR: [] A couple of amazing links to streaming video of historical presidential campaign ads: [] [] ||
 * Welcome to Kid's Voting! ||
 * Use these links to become an informed voter!