Social Studies Distance Learning Resources

Attached is a link from the New Jersey Council of Social Studies for online resources for teaching soical studies in grades K-12.

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Cube Creator

Break the writing process into six segments, helping students to write biographies, mysteries, short stories, etc.  On Cube Creators, by Read Write Think, students can enter information with an online template.  Once complete, students can print (with you help at school) or at home, cut and fold to create a cube.  Students can use to summarize what they have read, or use to plan out a writing assignment.

Animated Maps: A History / Social Studies Resource

Analyzing and interpreting maps is part of the Social Studies learning standards for most elementary and middle school grades.  Mapping History, produced by the University of Oregon, features lots of animated maps illustrating problems, patterns, and events throughout history. Mapping History is essentially a digital atlas of American, European, Latin American, and African history. Each section is divided into modules based on historical themes and eras.

Applications for Education
Mapping History is a resource to bookmark for the next time that you need a thematic map to illustrate a pattern in history. I found that some of the maps will also be useful as question prompts. For example, this map prompts students to evaluate the extent to which the expansion of slavery in the U.S. was connected to the demand for cotton.