Teaching Social Issues

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Related Resources:

PBS's companion site to their 1997 series Liberty. This is an excellent interactive site that covers a wide ranges of topics and issues relating to the American Revolution.

Related Resources Starting Places for Events and Social issues

• http://www.ncss.org (National Council for Social Studies)
• http://www.nationalgeographic.com (National Geographic Society)
• http://www.pathfinder.com/ (magazines on current events) http://www.canoe.ca (Canadian news sources)
• http://www.newslink.org (online news sources)
• http://www.bbc.com (British Broadcasting Corporation)
• http://www.cnn.com/ (CNN interactive)
• http://www.pbs.org (Public Broadcasting site)
• http://www.npr.org (National Public Radio)
• http://www.capweb.net/directory.html (US Congress)
• http://www.thenation.com (The Nation news magazine)
• http://www.nytimes.com (New York Times)

Internet searching strategies- Things to know before you begin to search the web

• Selecting and using internet search tools
• How to evaluate web resources
• Five criteria for evaluating web resources
• How to critically evaluate information sources
• Evaluating the quality of Internet information sources
• Tips for evaluating world wide web searches
• How to cite Internet resources: A beginning's guide: how to cite internet

Center for Technology and Teacher Education, University of Virginia, This module was created by Elizabeth Anne Yeager and Kara Dawson University of Florida