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Civics

Document help

This site offers a wide variety of documents for students to review. It also has an app. 

This site can be used by students regardless of their teachers using or not using it. The student can use activities already set up simply by searching for the topic they are currently covering. 

Government

This site offers help with the following topics:

The Presidency
Congress - Legislative System
Supreme Court - Judicial System
U.S. Constitution
Political System - Voting
Federal Budget Process
Miscellaneous

iCivics

This is a great site to use for study material. Some teachers use this site to drive their instruction.

Quizlet

Quizlet is a great site/app for students. It has an impressive word/definition bank. Students can quickly create a review set for a test. Many teachers already use this, so your student may have to only review what is already there. There are flashcards and several types of review games. 

Sparknotes - Free Enterprise

While we no longer have a half-year course on Free Enterprise it is covered at the end of the Civic course/school year. This site offers a lot of reliable information to aid in understanding.

Sparknotes Civics

This site offers reliable information on topics concerning the U.S. Constitution. 

Textbook

This is a link to the Civics Textbook. The student will need to ask his/her instructor for a username and password to access the online text. 

Geography

Review Games

This site offers many review games. Here are the ones for Geography. 

Air Pano

"AirPano ... high-resolution spherical panoramas shot from a bird’s eye view. Being the largest resource for 360° aerial panoramas in the world – by geographical coverage, ...There are nearly two thousand 360° panoramas on our website at the moment." 

Gale Databases

This site is an online database. Students can search a topic and find numerous references to aid in understanding or to use in research. 

Quizlet

Quizlet is a great site/app for students. It has an impressive word/definition bank. Students can quickly create a review set for a test. Many teachers already use this, so your student may have to only review what is already there. There are flashcards and several types of review games. 

The World Factbook

"The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities." The site uses terminology that aligns with Geography language. 

World Book

This site offers a variety of information, maps, video, articles, quizzes, headlines, etc. It is great to aid in understanding or for research projects in any Social Studies course. 

US History

Review Games

This site offers review games by topic. Here are the ones for U.S. History.

Documents Help

This site offers a wide variety of documents for students to review. It also has an app. This site can be used by students regardless of their teachers using or not using it. The student can use activities already set up simply by searching for the topic they are currently covering. 

Quizlet

Quizlet is a great site/app for students. It has an impressive word/definition bank. Students can quickly create a review set for a test. Many teachers already use this, so your student may have to only review what is already there. There are flashcards and several types of review games.

Sparknotes

This site offers short synopsis of a variety of topics in U.S. History. Find the era or topic covered and you will be reinforcing your U.S. history knowledge in preparation for test. For high school U.S. history you will click on this link, then scroll down to American History, then choose any of the topics after Reconstruction (11th grade U.S. history studies Reconstruction to the present).

U.S. History Textbook

This link will take you to the textbooks website. There are many helpful tools available: maps, practices quizzes, games, etc.. 

World History

Review Games

This site offers many review games, here are the ones applicable to World History.

Air Pano

This site offers panoramic images with descriptors of the location being covered. This is a great tool for students to be able to see many of the actual place that a studied event occurred at in World History.  "AirPano is a non-for-profit project focused on high-resolution spherical panoramas shot from a bird’s eye view. Being the largest resource for 360° aerial panoramas in the world – by geographical coverage, number of aerial photographs, and artistic and technical quality of the images, AirPano has already photographed over two hundred most interesting locations on our planet. There are nearly two thousand 360° panoramas on our website at the moment." 

My Histro

This is a great source of timeline and content for any Social Studies classroom, especially World History. 

Quizlet

Quizlet is a great site/app for students. It has an impressive word/definition bank. Students can quickly create a review set for a test. Many teachers already use this, so your student may have to only review what is already there. There are flashcards and several types of review games. 

World Book

Great resource to aid in understanding for terms, concepts, and for research.