background preloader

Social Studies

Facebook Twitter

13 Best Websites and Games for U.S. History and Civics. American Government. PBS LearningMedia. HowlawsmadeWIRTH21.jpg (3215×1584) Teachers' Dungeon. The Journey of New World Foods. The indigenous peoples of the Americas, just like the people in Europe and other parts of the world, were responsible for a number of brilliant inventions.

The Journey of New World Foods

The difference was that the inventions produced by people in the New World didn't involve machines, but rather the clever management of the natural environment to improve the quality of life. The most important example is the many types of food that were "invented" (or domesticated and cultivated) by indigenous Americans. Learn more about crops domesticated by indigenous Americans Beginning in the 16th century, Spanish and Portuguese traders carried foods first domesticated and grown in the Americas around the world, where they were used by people in Europe, Africa, India, and Asia to create some of their cultures' signature dishes.

Today, New World foods such as tomatoes, potatoes, corn, peppers, peanuts, chocolate, vanilla, and pineapples turn up in African stews, Indian curries, Italian soups, and Thai sauces. Flavorful Favorites. Design a Travel Brochure. Learn All Year Long Kids and teens should read and write even when they are out of school.

Design a Travel Brochure

Why is this so important? Download the flyer (PDF) ReadWriteThink has a variety of resources for out-of-school use. Visit our Parent & Afterschool Resources section to learn more. More Home › Parent & Afterschool Resources › Activities & Projects Activity Activity Description. Why we study history. Helping Children Around the World to Read and Learn. Www.learn-empowerment.org/opencms/opencms/system/galleries/download/EU-lemp/LEtoolboxE.pdf. Library of Congress Home. Teachers. NativeAmericanScavengerHuntthGrade.

Nonfiction Literacy and Current Events. Educational Games & Learning Activities for Kids. Zunal WebQuest Maker. World Digital Library Home. World Geography Games - Let's play and learn about the world. Reporter - Featured. Free Lesson Plans and Games for Learning Civics. Online Courses, Tutorials, and Teacher Resources. Colombia Facts and Pictures. Multimedia - PanCanal.com. Native American Cultures Photos — History.com Picture Galleries. Lapse: Landsat Satellite Images of Climate Change, via Google Earth Engine. TIME and Space | By Jeffrey Kluger Editors note:On Nov. 29, 2016, Google released a major update expanding the data from 2012 to 2016.

lapse: Landsat Satellite Images of Climate Change, via Google Earth Engine

Read about the update here. Spacecraft and telescopes are not built by people interested in what’s going on at home. Rockets fly in one direction: up. Telescopes point in one direction: out. That changed when NASA created the Landsat program, a series of satellites that would perpetually orbit our planet, looking not out but down. Over here is Dubai, growing from sparse desert metropolis to modern, sprawling megalopolis. It took the folks at Google to upgrade these choppy visual sequences from crude flip-book quality to true video footage. These Timelapse pictures tell the pretty and not-so-pretty story of a finite planet and how its residents are treating it — razing even as we build, destroying even as we preserve. Chapter 1: Satellite Story | By Jeffrey Kluger But in 1966, Udall and his staff had an idea. 1 of 20 Aaron Vincent Elkaim / Boreal Collective. Social Studies.