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Found this on my new favorite website, Finding Dulcinea http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/education/2010/march/101-Great-Sites-for-Social-Studies.html   101 Great Sites for Social Studies: They are organized by topic. Many of these are familiar to us, but to have them all in one place and categorized certainly makes it convenient

Found this on my new favorite website, Finding Dulcinea http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/education/2010/march/101-Great-Sites-for-Social-Studies.html   101 Great Sites for Social Studies: They are organized by topic. Many of these are familiar to us, but to have them all in one place and categorized certainly makes it convenient  

Just found this great site. Easy to read for kids: http://www.carnegiemnh.org/exhibitions/north-south-east-west/iroquois/index.html

There is a great new website dedicated to teaching schoolchildren about our judicial branch of government. Here is an article in the Washington Post about the site and the online games: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/01/AR2009100103888.html?wpisrc=newsletter And here is a link to the site. It has more than just ...

There is a great new website dedicated to teaching schoolchildren about our judicial branch of government. Here is an article in the Washington Post about the site and the online games: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/01/AR2009100103888.html?wpisrc=newsletter And here is a link to the site. It has more than just the ...

http://www.thebeijingguide.com/great_wall_of_china/index.html You can literally ''walk'' the wall, stop and look out various vistas, explore in further detail, and move on. An amazing website! 

This weekend the tall ships including the replica of the Half Moon will be proceeding up the Hudson River from NY Harbor to Albany! Check your local newspaper for the times it will pass near you.   Mirla

Elaine, I think we'll tackle this at the spring session. Make sure you come! Linda

http://www.world-heritage-tour.org/asia/china/map.html This site (World Heritage Tours) is documenting places around the world to provide opportunities to ''travel'' for those who can't and for educational purposes. There are many tours available now and the site's intention is to continue to add. I thought the tours for China (esp. the Great ...

Suzanne, Which background information in Lesson 10 do you mean? I am looking at a lesson on Symbols and I see a short paragraph about the bald eagle. Is that it? I am going to alert Mirla to log into the discussion board to reply to this and your other question as well. Thanks for using the discussion board! We wish more teachers would join in ...