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Social Studies
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| RESOURCE | GRADE LEVEL | MEDIA TYPE |
|---|---|---|
Anatomy of a VolcanoIn this interactive activity from NOVA Online, explore the main features of the Nyiragongo volcano, located in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and learn what risks it poses to the 500,000 people who live in its shadow. |
6-12 |
Interactive |
Bank It or BustIn this interactive game from What's Up in Finance?, players make financial decisions to help them meet their goal of buying a car. |
7-12 |
Interactive |
The Civil Rights Movement in America, 1945-1975This interactive timeline provides a chronological and geographic view of the events of the Civil Rights era and its aftermath. |
K-12 |
Interactive |
Deforestation in BoliviaThis visualization adapted from NASA features two satellite images from 1984 and 2000 that show the dramatic deforestation of the Bolivian rainforest. |
6-12 |
Interactive |
The Disappearing Aral SeaThis visualization adapted from NASA features satellite images showing how more than 60 percent of the Aral Sea has disappeared during the last 30 years. |
6-12 |
Interactive |
Examine Global Surface CurrentsThis visualization from McDougal Littell/TERC visualizes the relationship between global wind directions and the direction of ocean surface currents. |
6-12 |
Interactive |
Explore Colonial BostonExplore the town of Boston and its natural and human-made features in colonial times in this interactive activity produced by WGBH and featuring materials from the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library. |
3-5 |
Interactive |
How to Build A RoadGeology and weather introduced a variety of unexpected problems when construction crews were building the Alaska Highway. In this interactive activity from the American Experience Web site, see how Army engineers improvised solutions to blaze a trail through the wilderness. |
3-12 |
Interactive |
It Costs What?!In this interactive from What's Up in Finance? four friends experience different financial outcomes when they each buy a digital music player using cash, credit cards or pay overtime. |
9-12 |
Interactive |
Julian the TrailblazerLearn how chemist Percy Julian overcame prejudice and segregation to become one of the leading scientists of the 20th century. This interactive slideshow adapted from NOVA documents milestones in Julian's life and career. |
6-12 |
Interactive |
Mission US: Flight to FreedomStudents play this interactive adventure game and assume the role of Lucy. As the game opens, Lucy is a young slave on the King family’s plantation outside of Lexington. |
6-8 |
Interactive |
Mission US: For Crown or Colony?This interactive adventure games puts players in the shoes of Nat Wheeler, a 14-year-old printer's apprentice in 1770 Boston. |
6-8 |
Interactive |
Rags to RichesIn this interactive from What's Up in Finance? students have to make all the right financial moves to manage their new t-shirt business. |
7-12 |
Interactive |
Tectonic Plates and Plate BoundariesThis interactive activity adapted from NASA features world maps that identify different sections of the Earth's crust called tectonic plates. The locations of different types of plate boundaries are also identified, including convergent, divergent, and transform boundaries. |
6-12 |
Interactive |
Visualizing Topography Explore the topography of a hill, a valley, and a cliff in this interactive activity
featuring visualizations of three-dimensional topography in two dimensions. Adapted from
Stephen Reynolds' "Visualizing Topography." |
6-12 |
Interactive |
Westward Expansion, 1860–1890This interactive map produced for Teachers' Domain tracks trends in the growth of population, transportation networks and agriculture in the United States in the 30-year period between 1860 and 1890. |
8-12 |
Interactive |
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