Social+Studies

(Too good not to include somewhere--these are sites I stumbled across when looking for grade level requests that fit in the social studies area but were not specifically requested by teachers.)
 * Social Studies Finds **


 * **Placefy:** Identify the "famous" item and where it is located in the world: http://www.placefy.com/
 * **GeoNet:** http://www.eduplace.com/geonet/ This geography quiz game from Houghton Mifflin offers students more than just the state or country identification questions--it has a category of games based on a world map and games based on a map of the United States. Within each category are six types of quiz game questions. Each quiz game has two levels.
 * **Place Spotting:** http://www.placespotting.com/ This site is where students will find geographic riddles to solve. Place Spotting is based on the Google Earth platform where users can create their own geographic riddles or try to solve riddles created by others. The search feature on Place Spotting lets users search for riddles based on level of difficulty, language, region, or creation date.
 * **Traveler IQ Challenge:** @http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq/game1 This site has 14 interactive geography activities. The activities can be embedded in a blog or website. If it is an option for you, I recommend embedding the activities into your class blog or website to cut down on the number of advertisements that your students see.