Social Studies Activities Learn history, geography and social studies using high-quality free software downloads and games or free online resources for kids and grown-ups.

Playinghistory.org - History Games, Interactives And Simulations
Playing History is a website that catalogs and rates the best free online history games and simulations. Browse through subjects such as American history, British history, ancient history or World War II.
Read more... (10/16/2009) (in online)
http://playinghistory.org

Breathing Earth - Real Time CO2 Emissions Simulation
The Breathing Earth is a Flash visualization of world population growth, births, deaths and carbon emissions. A great starting point for discussions with kids about the climate change.
Read more... (10/16/2009) (in online)
http://www.breathingearth.net/

Neok12.com - Organized Educational Videos
Neok12.com is a website that lists educational videos by subject. All videos can be viewed directly on sites such as Youtube as well, but Neok12 makes it much easier to find them. The videos illustrate a wide array of subjects including math, social studies and science.
Read more... (06/02/2009) (in reference)
http://www.neok12.com/

Factmonster.com - Information and Homework Help for Children
Factmonster.com is a free reference website where kids can get help with their homework, search for facts on thousands of subjects, or do quizzes and crosswords.
Read more... (01/18/2009) (in reference)
http://www.factmonster.com

StatPlanet - Interactive Data Visualization through Maps and Graphs
Statplanet is a free data visualization tool that lets you discover facts about world development using colored maps and graphs.
Read more... (11/03/2008) (in online)
http://www.sacmeq.org/statplanet/

benfranklin300.org - View A Benjamin Franklin Timeline
The website benfranklin300.org was created to celebrate the 300th-year anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth (1706-2006). It includes a great interactive historical timeline where you can learn about the life of Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers.
Read more... (05/15/2008) (in online)
http://www.benfranklin300.org/timeline/

Nobelprize.org - Educational Games and Simulations
The nobelprize.org website hosts a large collection of high quality educational Flash games, on subjects related to the Nobel Prize. The productions are aimed at young people, who may know about the Nobel Prizes and the Nobel Laureates, but often lack a deeper understanding about the Nobel Prize-awarded works.
Read more... (02/01/2008) (in online)
http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/

Food Force - A Game To Fight Hunger
In the free educational game FoodForce, you get to join a team of UN experts and help them fight hunger on the fictional island of Sheylan in the Indian Ocean, which is suffering from both drought and civil war.
Read more... (09/18/2007) (in freeware)
http://www.food-force.com

Purposegames.com - Create Image Quizzes
Purposegames is a website with serveral very good geography games, where you can learn about countries, capitals, mountains and rivers all over the world. This site is also very much a web 2.0-site, since users can add their own image quizzes to the site.
Read more... (08/28/2007) (in online)
http://www.purposegames.com

Geosense - Online Geography Competition
Geosense is a one or two player geography based game. Compete against another online opponent to place a city on a world map as quickly and accurately as you can.
Read more... (12/05/2006) (in online)
http://www.geosense.net/

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