Click on the image above to go to South Carolina Eighth Grade Edition Main Page

On the Web

General South Carolina Websites:

www.myscgov.com
South Carolina state government

www.scstatehouse.net/index.html
South Carolina Legislature

www.myscschools.com
South Carolina Department of Education

www.discoversouthcarolina.com
Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism

www.southcarolinaparks.com
Home page for the South Carolina state parks and historic sites.

www.museum.state.sc.us
South Carolina State Museum

www.sciway.net
SCIway.net, The largest directory of South Carolina information on the Internet.

 

                    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

 

Economics Resources:

www.econedlink.org
This web site of the National Council on Economic Education has lesson plans on current events. The Weblinks tab has links to such sites as the Federal Reserve Banks and the Stock Market Game

www.e-connections.org
This web site has a number of economics-related lesson plans.

www.italladdsup.org
This web site helps young people with personal finance. There are five interactive modules – on getting and using a credit card, buying a car, handling a budget, saving and investing, and going to college.

www.themint.org
This web site emphasizes personal financial literacy with an emphasis on  “earning, saving, spending, investing, and borrowing.”

 

General Resources:

lcweb.loc.gov
The Library of Congress

www.biography.com
Web site 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 news 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.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

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

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.piperinfo.com/state/index.cfm
Links to current state and local government information.

www.senate.gov
Home page for the U.S. Senate.

www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm
Links to current state and local government information

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

www.ourdocuments.gov/
Contains a list of 100 milestone documents, compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration.

www.sbrowning.com/whowhatwhen/
Provides graphic timelines of periods in history, as well as timelines of the lives of individuals.

www.sohp.org
The Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.