General Georgia Websites:
www.georgia.gov/
Georgia State Government
www.legis.state.ga.us/
Georgia Legislature
www.doe.k12.ga.us/
Georgia Department of Education
www.georgia.org/
Georgia Department of Economic Development (Tourism)
www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Home.jsp
The New Georgia Encyclopedia
www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/
Georgia Info page at Carl Vinson Institute
gastateparks.org/
Home page for the Georgia state parks and historic sites
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www.atlantahistorycenter.com
Atlanta History Center
Curriculum Resources:
rubistar.4teachers.org
This site helps teachers develop and use rubrics.
www.awesomelibrary.org/
An Internet library database sponsored by Evaluation and Development
Institute, which includes lesson plans dealing with social studies.
www.marcopolo-education.org/
The website for Marco Polo: Internet Content for the Classroom Program
General Resources:
lcweb.loc.gov
The Library of Congress
lii.org
The Librarians’ Index to the Internet
www.biography.com
Website for the popular PBS series.
www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html
The superintendent of documents and the Government Printing Office
www.cnn.com
The CNN site. Other network sites include www.reuters.com,
www.msnbc.com/news,
www.abcnews.com,
www.cbsnews.com, and
www.foxnews.com.
www.cr.nps.gov
The National Park Service’s Links to the Past page
www.distinguishedwomen.com
Includes biographies of distinguished women past and present
www.envirolink.org
The Envirolink Network
www.interest.com/top100.html
Links to the one hundred most popular newspapers in the country
www.ipl.org
The Internet Public Library, an online public library of the Internet.
www.pbs.org
Home page for the Public Broadcasting Service.
www.puzzlemaker.com
Allows users to create various types of puzzles.
www.si.edu/
The Smithsonian Institution
www.vote-smart.org
The Vote Smart site
www.zillions.org
The Zillions Education Center is sponsored by Consumer Reports. Its purpose
is to teach kids how to evaluate ads and see through the hype. There are
lesson plans.
Geography Resources:
members.aol.com/bowermanb/101.html
Geography World website
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nationalatlas.gov/about.html
The National Atlas of the United States
www.indo.com/distance
The Distance Calculator gives the distance between two cities and exact
latitude and longitude measurements of the two cities.
www.lib.utexas.edu/maps
University of Texas’s huge collection of maps
www.nationalgeographic.com
National Geographic
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www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook
The CIA's World Factbook
www.usgs.gov
The U.S. Geological Survey
Government Resources:
bensguide.gpo.gov
Ben’s Guide to the U.S. Government for Kids
thomas.loc.gov
Legislative information on the Internet
www.fedstats.gov
The federal government’s statistical information site.
www.firstgov.gov
A good place to start looking for information on or from the federal
government.
www.house.gov
Home page for the U.S. House of Representatives.
www.senate.gov
Home page for the U.S. Senate.
www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm
Links to current state and local government information
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www.whitehouse.gov
Home page for the White House.
History Resources:
docsouth.unc.edu/
Documenting the American South website.
fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/
The Historical U.S. Census Data Browser; provides census data for states and
counties for the period 1790-1960.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html
Home page for the Library of Congress's "American Memory" section
www.besthistorysites.net/index.shtml
The Best of History Web Sites features sites for prehistory, world history,
U.S. history, art history, maps, and general resources.
www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp
The “Teaching with Historic Places” page of the National Park Service.
www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
An online U.S. history website. Contains resource guides, an online
textbook, encyclopedia, biographies, essays, timelines, and primary sources.
www.earlyamerica.com/
Archiving Early America.
www.historychannel.com
The History Channel
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www.ourdocuments.gov/
Contains a list of 100 milestone documents, compiled by the National
Archives and Records Administration.
www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/oralhist.htm
Contains a list of questions that could be used for an interview or to take
an oral history.
www.sbrowning.com/whowhatwhen/
Provides graphic timelines of periods in history, as well as timelines of
the lives of individuals.
www.tntech.edu/history/edocs.html
Contains information on using electronic documents and has links to many
historical documents, collections, radio broadcasts, online history books,
and more.
www.toptags.com/aama
The Afro-American Almanac, from the slave trade through the civil rights
movement to the present.
www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
The Avalon Project at Yale University, documents in law, history, and
diplomacy.
