Social Studies
Team 802
Miss S. Smith
Below I have provided you with some links to several interactive educational websites. If you have completed all of your assigned work, I'd like for you to spend some time exploring these sites. Just click on the photo icon beside the site description.
Finished with your classwork? Check these out!
Take Part
These sites allow you to participate in our global community.
Are you interested in joining the fight to end world hunger while also building your vocabulary skills? On this website, you will earn 10 grains of rice for each question that you answer correctly. On Free Rice, every grain of rice that you earn will be donated to the World Food Programme to help end world hunger. All you have to do is answer the questions. You can work through the questions that the website generates via the homepage, or select Subjects at the top of the page and choose from a list of different subject areas. Enjoy!
Are you interested in participating in a scientific study? Imagine being able to help real scientists and social scientists collect important data on current national and world-wide research topics. Click on the icon to go to the Citizen Science Project Catalog. Use the filters on the left side of the page to search through the different research Project Topics that you can help with. Choose one and start collecting data! By participating in a Citizen Science project, you are making an important contribution contemporary research and scientific thought! Cool, huh?
Test Your Skills
If you like interactive gaming, these sites are for you.
In Georgia: Race Through Time, you will be challenged to use your knowledge of Georgia and its history to help Savannah and her furry friends beat the clock and her competitors to win $100,000 and naming rights to a new wing of the Cashworth Museum. Savannah has some secret powers that may give you a leg up on the competition. NOTE: You will need headphones to play this game!
I know that a lot of you love playing computer games. Here's your chance to play a game that will help you learn more about history but also challenge your ability to strategize. In Mission U.S., choose from five different missions to complete. Each will deal with a different aspect of American history. NOTE: You will need headphones to play this game!
In this game, Executive Command, YOU are the President of the United States. Choose a political platform, assign tasks, and see what you can accomplish in the Oval Office. NOTE: You will need headphones to play this game!
Stop Disasters! challenges you to make the right decisions to help save mankind. Use your problem-solving skills to prevent wildfires, tsunamis, floods, and more. NOTE: You will need headphones to play this game!
All of the Books!
These sites give you access to thousands of digital and audiobooks for FREE! Reading is magic.
Project Gutenberg is an online resource for public domain eBooks. With over 57,000 eBooks available, this site provides you with access to numerous interesting and important texts from history. Here, you will find much of the world's great literature including classic fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. You can download these books, or simply read them online. ***HINT: This resource could really come in handy for future research projects...
LibriVox is an online resource for public domain audiobooks. This is a crowd-sourced website where you can listen to previously recorded audiobooks, OR you can contribute your own reading to the LibriVox online catalog. Get in on the effort to digitize read-alouds. As with Project Gutenberg, LibriVox is designed as an crowd-sourced audio catalog of public domain books. If there is a classical piece of writing that you love and would like to contribute a read-aloud of, here's your chance! NOTE: You will need headphones to listen to these audiobooks in the classroom!
The Tell Me Tree is a children's book that is based on the real life excavation and interpretation of an archaeological site in Savannah, GA. When read from the front to the back (Part 1), the book tells the story of Enetan, a young girl growing up in Savannah during the Civil War. When read from the back to the front (Part 2), the book tells the story of Vincent, a young boy who gets to help out with the excavation of an archaeological site. Are their stories connected? You tell me...
Tell Me Tree Read Aloud Part 1
Tell Me Tree Read Aloud Part 2
Practice Your Digital Citizenship
Exercising proper internet etiquette will help you enhance your online experience.
Use this link to explore BrainPop's lessons on Digital Citizenship. There's a whole list of topics for you to explore. Each one includes informational videos, quizzes, activities, challenges, and more!
Practice Your Digital Literacy
Learn how to use the internet effectively and efficiently. It might not be as easy as you thought.
Remember: you can't always believe everything that you see online. How do you know if what you see online is real? The News Literacy Project is an interactive website where you can get real journalists to help you sort fact from fiction.
The Carnegie Cyber Academy has lots of resources to help you become more digitally literate. Become a well-informed and cyber-ready Carnegie Cadet by completing the assigned training missions. Good luck!
Refine Your Skills
There are so many skills that you should build in order to increase your level of success in your educational, and eventually, professional life. Use the links below to practice some of these crucial skills.
How many of you know how to use your home row? If you do not, I want you to spend a little bit of time each week on this website. Typing.com is a website that will help you refine your typing skills. In this digital world, it is extremely important to have some level of typing skills. Create your free account and get going! By the end of 8th grade, you'll be typing faster than Miss Smith!
Pangaea Learning is a wonderful website for learning new languages. Learning new languages is a fun way to build your overall language skills in all languages and can help you build your reading, writing, and speaking skills. On this website, choose the language that you are interested in learning, then select Web App on the left hand side if it is available. This will take you to a page that will allow you to choose your level of expertise. Each level has a number of lessons with games, videos, audio, and more!
Build Creativity
Create something unique to share with your peers.
Make yourself a free account to start creating your own comic strips on ToonDoo with tons of characters, backgrounds, props, and more! Use this resource to add exciting elements to projects. Get funny, get clever, get serious. It's up to you! This 'toon creator platform is extremely user friendly. Have fun with it!
Spend some time practicing your map-making skills on Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map! Read the explorer's description to create your own correctly formatted map of the area in question. After you've completed your map, have a look around at other students' interpretations. Can you create your own map-making challenge.
Scratch is for those of you who are interested in coding and game development. Set up your free account to get started coding your own stories, games, and animations. You could use Scratch to enhance some of your class projects, study for a test, or create a game for you and your friends to play.
See what kind of explorer you would be with Merchants of the Great Exchange. Can you safely get your crew across the globe and back with your trading skills? Learn to ration your supplies for the perfect time while trading with important figures and merchants from ports around the world.