Social+Studies+Web+Resources

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Project Look Sharp is a media literacy initiative of Ithaca College to provide materials, training and support for the effective integration of media literacy with critical thinking into classroom curricula at all education levels. =====

The website provides lesson plans, links to magazine articles, and documents, all downloadable, and all free.
**U.S. History: []** **Global: []**

**EASE History** is a rich online environment that supports the learning and teaching of US History. Hundreds of historical videos and photographs are currently available in EASE History. Learn about US History through the prism of US presidential campaign ads, better understand the complexities of campaign issues and their historical context by looking at historical events, and explore the meanings of core values by examining how these values have been applied in both historical events and campaign ads.
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**The Karpeles Library of Manuscripts and Documents** The Karpeles Library is the world's largest private holding of important original manuscripts and documents. The archives include literature, science religions, history and art. Among the treasures are "The original draft of the Bill of Rights of the United States", The original manuscript of "The Wedding March," Einstein's description of his "Theory of Relativity," the "Thanksgiving Proclamation" signed by George Washington, Roget's "Thesaurus," Webster's "Dictionary," and over one million more. Sone of the documents have small pull-down "handles" that turn the often unreadable script into easily readable type.
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**Nation Master**
Welcome to NationMaster, a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. Using the form on the hone page, you can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics with ease. The sites claims to be the web's one-stop resource for country statistics on everything from __ [|obesity] __ to__ [|murders] __.
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**Ben's Guide to the U.S. Government**
//Ben’s Guide to U.S. Government for Kids// is the educational component of //GPO Access//, the Government Printing Office’s (GPO) free online service of official Government information from all three branches of the U.S. Government. //Ben’s Guide// provides information and activities specifically tailored for educators, parents, and students in K-12. These resources can help teach about our government and how it works. They can also teach about the primary source materials on //GPO Access//, and how citizens can use //GPO Access// in carrying out their civic responsibilities. And, just as //GPO Access// provides locator services to U.S. Government sites,//Ben's Guide// provides a similar service to U.S. Government Web sites developed for kids. The site index provides, in one convenient place, a link to all the pages of //Ben’s Guide//.
 * [|**http://bensguide.gpo.gov/9-12/index.html**]**

Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library's mission is to support the Congress in fulfilling its constitutional duties and to further the progress of knowledge and creativity for the benefit of the American people. Search their catalog as well as their extraordinary digital collections -- the direct link is below..
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**U.S. Census Bureau**

The mission of the Census Bureau is to serve as the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy

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** Lesson Plans from Thinkfinity **

 * More than 600 lesson plans for high school social studies. **
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= In the spirit of Thomas Jefferson, legislative information from the Library of Congress = []
 * THOMAS: Congressional Legislation**