Forefront Curriculum : Integrating the Net into the Social Studies Classroom

Effectively Integrating the Net into the
Social Studies/Language Arts Classroom
Internet Training & Curriculum Development for K-12 Educators
Sarah DiRuscio can provide outstanding "hands-on" technology training at your school.
Learn more about how she can motivate your teachers to use computers on a daily basis!

Print Out these Great Seminar Handouts
K-6 Cross Curricular Handout or 7-12 Cross Curricular Handout
Social Studies/Language Arts Handout

Lesson Plan Databases

Top 10 Sites You Can't Miss

Ask Eric Digest
ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse

Judy Harris Collection
(Net Lessons)

Pacific Bell's Blue Web'n
www.kn.pacbell.com/

McREL
www.mcrel.org/

Microsoft's Encarta
encarta.msn.com/schoolhouse/
lessons

NWREL-Library in the Sky
www.nwrel.org

Teach Net Lessons

Looking for Educational Sites?
Forefront Curriculum
www.4forefront.com
(Sarah's Site)

Classroom Connect
GRADES Database
www.classroom.net

Technology & Learning
Pitsco's Online Resources

Internet Karaoke
www.geocities.com/Broadway/3386

Learning Disabilities Online
www.ldonline.org

Academy Online
www.acdemyonline.com

Vincent Voice Library
www.msu.edu/vincent

Scout Report
scout.cs.wisc.edu

Outstanding Social Studies Lessons
www.csun.edu:80/~hcedu013/

The Best Language Arts
Resource for the Classroom
www.classroom.net/STAFF/KMH/la/default.html

Online Resources & Curriculum
Social Studies Lesson Plan Databases S.S. Curriculum Exchange Crossroads A K-16 American History Curriculum SCORE History-Social Science. Tips for a better history paper General Social Studies Sites The History Place American Memory Library of Congress Historical Sites for Tourists Ask a History Expert Site Outline of American History Textbook Online Controversial Speeches from History Geography Games Slavery in the US from 1790-1860	Language Arts Lesson Plan Databases Inkspot (writing resource) http://www.inkspot.com The Dramatic Exchange (students can publish their plays) http://www.dramex.org The Screenwriters/Playwrites's Page http://www.teleport.com/ ~cdeemer/scrwriter.html Resources for Writers and Writing Instructors http://www.english.upenn.edu/ ~jlynch/writing.html The Screenwriters/Playwright's Page http://www.teleport.com/ ~cdeemer/scrwriter.html Wacky Web Tales http://www.eduplace.com/tales/ Online Writing Lab at Purdue University http://owl.trc.purdue.edu Nathaniel Hawthorne http://www.tiac.net/users/ eldred/nh/hawthorne.html Complete Works of William Shakespeare http://the-tech.mit.edu/ Shakespeare/works.html The Internet Classics Archive http://classics.mit.edu
Outstanding American History Resources
1820-1870 Sites Excerpts from Slave Narratives Fur Trading Business Records Sectional Conflict- Chapter 6 from "Outline of American History"	Civil War Sites Great Civil War Unit by a Teacher Women of the Civil War Site! Causes of the Civil War Why Slavery is Good Speech US Civil War Center Letters from an Iowa Soldier Civil War Photographs Library of Congress

Gold Rush Sites
California Gold Rush (Sacramento Bee's web site) California Gold Country's Web Site Historic Jamestown California	Gold Prospecting Expedition (USA Today Article) Show Me The Gold travel program PBS film "The Gold Rush"