Have some free time on your hands? Finished your work? Check out these worthwhile websites.  Some links test your knowlege and skills others are just interesting to explore. Right now this is just a jumbled collection of links in no particular order. 

 

Sheppard Software – US Geography Activities
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm

Do you know your states?
http://www.pibmug.com/files/map_test.swf

Learning Together – States, Capitals, Presidents, etc
http://www.usa.learningtogether.net/ 

Infoplease - See what happened today in History (or any other day)
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory

 Thinkquest – American Revolution Games
Http://library.thinkquest.org/10966/fun.shtml

Quia - U.S. History  Colonial Challenge
http://www.quia.com/rr/4049.html

Quia - Constitution Challenge
http://www.quia.com/quiz/126674.html

American History Timeline Game
http://www.mrnussbaum.com/timedir.htm

 Landscape Change Program – View Historic Vermont Photographs
http://www.uvm.edu/perkins/landscape/

Goggle Maps and Satellite Images
http://maps.google.com/

270towin – Interactive Election Map
http://www.270towin.com/

Hazecam EPA Pollution watch sites for cities in the Northeast
http://www.hazecam.net/

Scholastic Games
http://www.scholastic.com/play/aboutus.htm 

Smithsonian Education – Games and Activities
http://smithsonianeducation.org/students/explore_by_topic/history_culture.html

National Geographic – Inside the Whitehouse
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/96/whitehouse/ovalfrm.html

National Geographic - Lewis and Clark
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/west/

National Geographic - My Wonderful World
http://mywonderfulworld.org/

PBS – President For The Day
http://pbskids.org/democracy/presforaday/index.html

PBS – Guess the Year Game
http://pbskids.org/historydetectives/games/timecapsule/index.html

PBS – How Old Is This House?
http://pbskids.org/historydetectives/games/house/index.html

PBS – Eye Spy
http://pbskids.org/historydetectives/games/eyespy/index.php

 PBS History Scene Investigators
http://pbskids.org/historydetectives/games/hsi/

EPA - Dumptown Game
http://www.epa.gov/recyclecity/gameintro.htm

 My Ecological Footprint
http://www.myfootprint.org/

Live webcams in all 50 states
http://www.webcambiglook.com/

Strange Facts
http://www.strangefacts.com/facts1.html

Political Cartoons
http://www.pritchettcartoons.com/archives.htm

Americas Historic Lakes
http://www.historiclakes.com

History Place
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/

SS for Kids
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/


VT Sec of State - Kids Page
http://www.sec.state.vt.us/Kids/

Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/

Vermont Geography Book
http://academics.smcvt.edu/vtgeographic/book.htm

How Stuff Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/

National Atlas
http://www.nationalatlas.gov/

Our Documents
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/

Landmark Cases
http://www.landmarkcases.org/

Quotes 
http://www.brainyquote.com/

W3 Schools - Learn html  web design programming with online exercises
http://www.w3schools.com/


Presidents and States and Capitals Games
http://www.sporcle.com/games/