Activities For Both Grade Levels:
1. www.likeagoodbook.com This is the website of Mrs. Trimble, Walnut Springs' media specialist. Under the "useful tools" tab, many activities are accessible.
2. www.freerice.com This site allows students to engage in questions to enhance knowledge of geography and other topics.
3. earth.google.com This site allows the viewers to see locations on earth as taken by satellite photographs. Try typing in moon, sky, ocean, or Mars for other satellite photographs.
4. www.worldmapper.org This site shows surprising demographic data on a large variety of topics around the world by shrinking or enlarging continents and countries to compare them with the world.
5. www.liveleak.com/view?i=aac_1392197830 This site contains interesting historical photographs that have been dubbed with color.
6. www.liveleak.com/view?i=0dc_1396426857 This site contains interesting historical photographs that have been dubbed with color.
7. www.gosocialstudies.com This site contains interesting activities for both world and U.S. history.
8. www.chronozoom.com This site contains timelines of historical and scientific interest. Click on humanity and see how long humans have existed on earth. Then go backwards in time to see the history of the cosmos. Students can also use this site to make their own timelines.
9. http://nysedregents.org/ This site contains New York Regents Exams in both World History and American History. It provides an excellent review of course content as well as practice for End of Course Assessment given at the end of the school year. It can also serve as a pretest prior to studying content.
10. http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/ The PBS site contain different informative formats for all grade levels and subjects, including U.S. and World History.
11. http://besthistorysites.net/index.php/games-animations This site contains history games and animations for both U.S. and World History.
12. www.triviaplaza.com/geography-world-quizzes/ This site contains awesome geography games. Click on the link and test your knowledge and prep for the Geography Bee!
13. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geobee/ This is the official site of the National Geographic's Geography Bee. Daily quizzes are available to prep for our school's geography bee.
14. http://www.uen.org/7-12interactives/social_studies.shtml This site is from the Utah Education Network. It contains many activities for social studies topics, but you can also access other subjects as well.
15. http://www.todayifoundout.com This site has a lot of interesting (some random, some not) about the history of different topics. It also includes a "today in history" feature that allows you to find out important events in history for everyday of the year.
16. http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/search/?cx=partner-pub-0145173040798420%3A5674361580&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8&q=how+the+states+got+their+names&sa=Search&siteurl=www.todayifoundout.com%2F&ref=education.weebly.com%2Fweebly%2Fmain.php&ss=6452j2585756j30 This site contains information about states. Scroll down on the site to find out how the states got their names and more.
17. http://www. innogames.com This site contains some award winning games related to important times in history. Engage in improving strategy while learning about history.
18. www.uen.org The Utah Education Network provides free web tools and services, such as lesson plans, videos, curriculum resources, student interactives.
19. http://show.mappingworlds.com//world/ This mapping website contains a wealth of information pertaining to numerous categories of world demographics by displaying information proportionally.
20. http://geoguessr.com/ This site shows images around the world and users need to determine what location is being displayed.