Web Resources for PCS’s Social Studies Texts

K-2 (3?)  Pearson/Scott Foresman http://www.sfsocialstudies.com/index2.html

3rd?  Currently using Houghton Mifflin From Sea to Shining Sea http://www.eduplace.com/ss/hmss/3/index.html

also see Soc. St. Center http://www.eduplace.com/ss/index.html for outline maps, graphic organizers, current events…. (These are general Soc. St. resources that are not text specific.)

4^th  Gibbs-Smith – The Connecticut Adventure   go to http://www.gibbs-smith.com/textbooks/downloads/downloads.html for a few downloadable maps and worksheets

5^th  Prentice Hall – World Explorer Series The United States and Canada , Latin America

http://www.phschool.com/social_studies/ Click the link for textbook resources and choose World Explorer – you can use password worldexp

6th?  Currently using Houghton Mifflin, A Message of Ancient Days http://www.eduplace.com/ss/hmss/6/index.html

Possibly? Houghton Mifflin, Discover Our Heritage: World Cultures and Geography http://www.eduplace.com/ss/middlegrades/wtp6-7.html (designed for grades 6/7)

7^th & 8^th  McDougal Littell, Creating America

7^th   Creating America : Beginnings through Reconstruction

http://www.classzone.com/books/ca_recon/index.cfm

8^th  McDougal Littell, Creating America : 1877 to the 21st Century http://www.classzone.com/books/ca_1877/index.cfm

Web Research Guide http://www.classzone.com/books/research_guide/page_build.cfm?state=none&CFID=663176&CFTOKEN=5731231-00069121-f6b2-1f42-872b-8329a4c20000  Web Research Guide is designed to help you and your students explore the ins and outs of conducting effective research on the Web. Resources to:

·         use various types of search tools to locate Web resources

·         conduct thorough, systematic Web research

·         judge a Web site’s usefulness and reliability

·         cite electronic sources

·        understand basic Internet terminology

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