Welcome to SOCSD. Here are just a few of the many websites you may find useful as you teach. They are divided here by subject area, but take a look at all of them. Who knows what you will find.
 | The US Census Bureau: http://www.census.gov/ |
| Google Earth: http://earth.google.com/ -- Amazing 3d model of the Earth |
| NASA Worldwind GIS software: http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ |
| More Social Studies links: http://www.socsdteachers.org/jtanenbaum/cle_portal/social_studies/ |
| The Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/index.html |
Science
| The official website of the National Aeronatuics and Atmospheric Administration: www.nasa.gov |
| Educational materials from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab: http://education.jpl.nasa.gov/ |
| The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: www.noaa.gov |
| NOAA’s current events page: http://www.noaawatch.gov/ |
| An ocean literacy curriculum and materials developed by NOAA, National Geographic and others: www.coexploration.org/oceanliteracy/ |
| The US Census Bureau: http://www.census.gov/ |
| The National Buoy Data Center for ocean buoys: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ |
| The Library of Congress’ “learning Page:” http://memory.loc.gov/learn/ |
| http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/lists.html 25000 books on-line for free (all are in the public domain). |
Art
| A list of on-line art galleries: http://icom.museum/vlmp/galleries.html |
| An on-line gallery of the work of Vincent Van Gogh: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gogh/ |
| An on –line gallery of the work of Jackson Pollock: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/ |
| Check out the ibiblio site for even more: http://www.ibiblio.org/ |
| A Library of Congress collection of Ansel Adams photos of the Japanese Interment camp at Mananar, California: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/anseladams/ |
Music
| A collection of folk and blues recordings made by African American musicians between 1938 and 1943 housed in the American Folkways project in the Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftvhtml/ftvhome.html |
| Native American music from the Omaha housed in the American Flkwasy project in the Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/omhhtml/omhhome.html |
| How do you get to Carnagie Hall? Just click here: www.carnegiehall.org for schedules, history, virtual tours and more. |
| www.davidtanenbaum.com: Classical guitar. |
Foreign Language
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Spanish Language Newspapers:
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Other Areas and General Interest
| www.jacobtanenbaum.com : Click for training materials, webquest workshops, resources and for my current on-line projects with NOAA including the teacher at sea project and the shared experience model of distance learning. |
| http://www.wikipedia.org/: The amazing free encyclopedia written and edited by millions of people all over the world. |
