PELHAM HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER

The mission of Pelham High School is to educate students so that they may pursue life goals, 
participate fully as active citizens, and become socially responsible community members.

Technology Resources for Social Studies

Technology Powerpoint and Student Tip Sheet

Social Studies Databases

American History	Court cases, current events, biographies,  chronologies, documents.
Country Reports	Over 26,000 pages of content on every country in the world.
Culturegrams	Food, traditions, lifestyles, demographics in every country
Encyclopedia Americana	Complete online encyclopedia
	Database of publications for 1975-2005.  Full text pamphlets, reference books, biographies, primary source documents, images, Novelist.
Hoovers	Business Information Authority
	Indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Lands and People
	Greenhaven's Opposing Viewpoints Series Over 100 topics
	Articles, documents and statistics from hundreds of real-world sources-updated daily!
World Geography	Landforms, weather systems, and resources?as well as its colorful and often conflicting human cultures
World History Online	Facts On File's database of world history from prehistoric times through the present.
Choices Career Explorer	Includes PSAT practice tests
In the First Person	An Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories and Personal Narratives
	422,00 biographies on 335,000 people

Blogs

Mr. Torrisi's Vietnam Blog 

Helpful Websites

Africa Lesson Plans- PBS

America's Legislators Back to School Day-High School Lesson Plans

American Forum for Global Education- in-depth background info and lesson plans, China, Asia,etc

American Heritage Education Foundation High School Lesson Plans

The American Promise- lesson plans on democracy from PBS

American Presidents- Miller Center of Public Affairs, Univ. of Virginia

American Slave Narratives and Lesson Plans

Anne Frank in the World Teacher Workbook Website

Annenberg Channel Video on Demand- lessons on video, always available

Art and Life in Africa Project- University of Iowa

AskAsia.org- Lesson plans and student resources on Asia

AskEric Social Studies Lesson Plans

Census Bureau- including U.S. and World population clocks and population finders

Civil Liberties in the Wake of Sept. 11th- N.Y. Times Lesson Plan

Economics Lesson Plans and software- Thinkingeconomics.com
    Some lesson plans free, software can be purchased

e-lessons-Bill of Rights, Landmark Supreme Court Cases, First Amendment in History
   subscribe via email- free

Fulbright Scholar Teacher Exchange Opportunities

Geology.com- lots of maps, articles, resources, etc.

ibiblio.org- geography, history, and biography links and feeds

Lesson Plans- Curriculum Exchange, 95 plans, various topics

Lewis and Clark Institute CD

Know Child Labor.org

Mapping the World by Heart- a treasure trove of geography links, resources, maps, exhibits, etc

National Council for the Social Studies- very inexpensive current lesson plans (Iraq war, etc.)

National Geographic Lesson Plans

National Geographic One Stop Research- photos, maps, lesson plans, audio, video, etc

Project Harmony- International School Cooperative Projects

Taming Terrorism- PBS Lesson Plan

Teaching with the News- Brown University Watson Institute for International Studies

Track Current Events.org- create a current event tracker for up to 10 sources

Using the News to teach Religion- PBS

Voting Lesson Plan- PBS with standards, handouts, etc.

Women's Biographies Links

World Affairs Challenge- The University of Denver

Xpeditions- Geography Standards in your Classroom

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ARTICLES AND JOURNALS

BIOGRAPHY

CALENDARS

COUNTRIES

CRIMINAL JUSTICE/LAW

Business/Economics/Finance

GEOGRAPHY

GOVERNMENT

HISTORY

LAWS/LEGISLATURE

MAPS

NEW HAMPSHIRE

NEWS

PRIMARY SOURCES

REFERENCE

TIMELINES

Equipment

LCD Projector/Laptop

Elmo Digital Visualizer

Smartboard

Cyclops- webcam and movie editing software

"Tivo" DVD maker

New DVDs

Vendors

Social Studies School Service- let your Dean and your Librarian know what you like!

Elizabeth Strauss, Media Generalist
Pelham High School Library Media Center
bstrauss@pelhamsd.org