Is Street View Not In Your Area? Create Your Own Street View Spheres

Google's Street View imagery is capturing more of the world all the time. Through Street View we can virtually visit national parks, wo...

27 Topographic Maps Lessons

The USGS offers free topographic maps for most of the United States. The maps can be downloaded as PDFs through the USGS store. The maps ca...

Collections of Historical Maps and Ideas for Using Them In Your Classroom

The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection is often the first place I go to when looking for old maps to use in a social studies lesson. Th...

C-SPAN Classroom Releases an Improved Lesson Plan Collection

C-SPAN Classroom offers a lot of excellent resources for U.S. Government and History teachers. In the past I've featured their interacti...

Our Little Earth - Bi-weekly News Summaries for Kids

Our Little Earth is a nice site that provides bi-weekly summaries of the world's biggest news stories. The summaries are written for st...

National Geographic's Tools for Adventure Introduces Students to GIS

National Geographic Education has a nice interactive activity for introducing students to GIS and using maps to interpret information. Maps:...

The United Nations Presents 2012 in Review

I'm sure that we'll be seeing a lot of "year in review" videos released over the next couple of weeks. Some  like Rewind Y...

We The Jury - A Game About Being a Juror

iCivics has just released its seventeenth educational game for students. The new game is called We The Jury . We The Jury puts students in t...

Teaching Kids News - Short Lessons About the News

Teaching Kids News is a news site developed for use in elementary school and middle school classrooms. Teaching Kids News features timely a...

Videos and Images Marking the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Tomorrow marks the 23rd anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Google Cultural Institute has thirteen exhibitions related to The Fa...

Two Hands-on Economics Lessons for Students

Yesterday I had a conversation with a teacher who had developed his own stock market game for his middle school social studies course. As we...

PenPal News - Connecting Classes to Discuss News

PenPal News is a neat service that I learned about from David Kapuler . As the name implies, PenPal News connects classrooms across the U.S...

iSideWith Helps You Pick a Presidential Candidate

With the U.S. Presidential Election less than one month away many schools across the United States will be hosting or participating in mock ...

Search Trends and Politics

While eating lunch today I spent a some time looking at Google's Politics & Elections hub . The two aspects of Google's Politics...

A History of U.S. Campaigns & Conventions

Northeastern University has launched a new site all about U.S. political campaigns and party conventions. The site is divided into five mai...

Dipity - Create Timelines About Current Events

Dipity  is a great timeline creation tool that allows users to incorporate text, images, and videos into each entry on their timeline. Like ...

Watch the News and Remix the News on Link TV

Know the News on Link TV allows students to create their own short news clips. On Know the News students can access Link TV's library o...

Discovering the World's News in Pictures

One of my favorite features on the BBC New website is the Day in  the  Day in Pictures . The Day in Pictures displays a small collection of ...

The Living Room Candidate - The History of Campaign Commercials

Last night I was a guest on EdReach's EduNation Google+ Hangout On Air . One of the topics that came up was soundbite media and politics...

Econ Ed Link - Economics Lessons and Games

Produced by the Council for Economic Education, Econ Ed Link hosts hundreds of lesson plans and interactive games for teaching students abo...