Mrs. Sokolowski's Website

Social Studies Links

ONLINE TEXTBOOK ACCESS!

Pearson SuccessNet (Use the user name and password assigned to you in social studies class.)

 

 

General Social Studies sites

Kidipede (History for Kids)

 

KidsPast.com

 

NOVA: Ancient Worlds

 

 

Geography

Continents & Oceans YouTube rap

 

Latitude & Longitude Game

 

 

First Cultures

The Cave at Lascaux

 

"Digging Up Britain's Oldest House" OR "Archaeologists Uncover Britain's Oldest House"

 

Otzi the Iceman website

 

Castaway: "I Have Made Fire!" clip

 

Stone Age Tool Kit (Try the "interactive")

 

History for Kids: Stone Age Art

 

 

Mesopotamia

King Herod Revealed

 

 

Egypt

Mr. Donn's Pyramids & Tombs Page

 

Make Your Own Cartouche

 

Hieroglyphic Translator

 

Mr. Donn's Hieroglyphics Page

 

King Tut's Face Revealed

 

CT Scans Reveal King Tut's Face

 

Workers' Tombs Found Near Pyramids

 

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery for Kids

 

Egyptian Tomb Adventure

 

BBC: Egyptians

 

The British Museum: Ancient Egypt

 

 

China

The Terra Cotta Warriors Video

 

Terra Cotta Warriors Exhibit

 

Mr. Donn's Silk Road Page

 

Traveling the Silk Route

 

AnthropOLogy (Check out the "Sounds of the Silk Road" and "Silk Road Fables" links)

 

Mr. Donn's Ancient Chinese Inventions Page

 

 

Greek Trading Card Project

Kidipede (Do a "Search" for your person, and a Google search of appropriate links will appear.)

 

Encyclopedia of World Biographies (Do a "Search" for your person, and a list of links from "Notable Biographies" will appear.  Use the first link.)

 

Mr. Donn's Ancient Greece Page  (Alexander the Great, Aristotle, & Socrates)

 

History.com (Alexander the Great, Aristotle, Cleisthenes, Herodotus, Homer, Pericles, Plato, Socrates, & Thucydides)

 

Hypatia of Alexandria (Use this About.com page to find links for Hypatia)

 

 

 

Other Ancient Greece Sites

 

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery for Kids

 

 

 

Ancient Rome

 

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery for Kids