SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHER RESOURCE LINKS
GRADE 6

Archaeology Websites:

• Mali Interactive - About Archaeology

Archaeological Dig Sites:

• Radiocarbon dating
• Archaeology for kids
• Introduction to human evolution
• Lost City of Arabia
• Ice Mummies of the Incas
• Pyramids...the Inside Story
• Treasures of the Sunken City
• Voyage of Doom
• Jamestown Recovery
• Lost Roman Treasure
• Dead Men's Tales
• Sultan's Lost Treasure
• Mystery of the First Americans
• The Vikings

Arcaeological Endangered Sites:

• Archaeology's Interactive Dig
• Old Temples Study Foundation

Archaeological Just for Fun Sites:

• Meet the Ancestors
• Dig Deeper
• Infinite Secrets
• Dig - Archaeology Magazine for Kids
• Fakes & Mistakes

British Museum Sites:

• Ancient Egypt
• Ancient China
• Ancient India
• Ancient Greece
• Ancient Mesopotamia

Careers:

• Occupational Outlook Handbook
• Exploring Occupations

Civil War Journal Research

• Confederate Stars and Bars
• Illinois in the Civil War
• Africans in America - Part 4

Civil War Battlefields & Soldiers:

• Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park
• Civil War Photographs
• Civil War Battles
• Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
• Depth coverage of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
• The Orphan Brigade
• Uniforms of the Orphan Brigade
• Battle flags of the Orphan Brigade
• Robert Gould Shaw (1837-1863)
• Robert Gould Shaw: Civil War Officer

Civil War Diaries:

• The Valley of the Shadow Two Communitites in the American Civil War
• Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War
• Civil War Women: Online Archival Collections
• The Civil War Home Page - Letters & Diaries
• Alice Williamson Diary
• The Civil War Letters of Galutia York:
  Transcripts | Sept. 10, 1862 | Envelope | 114th NY State Infantry
• Civil War - An Illinois Soldier
• "My Precious Loulie...": Love letters from the Civil War
• American Civil War Resources in the Special Collections Department University Libraries, Virginia Tech
• Letter from Captain James W. Grace - February 25, 1864

Civil War Fun:

• Cartoons of the Civil War
• Civil War Graphics

Countries of the World:

• Fact Monster
• Countries of the World
• Country Studies
• Background Notes
• Atlapedia Online

Early Humans

• America's Stone Age Explorers
• Neanderthal
• The Chauvet Cave
• Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave
• Neanderthals on Trial
• Otzi
• The Iceman's Last Meal
• Mysteries of Catalhoyuk
• DK Online Mummy

Ellis Island

• Ellis Island Foundation
• History of Ellis Island

Greece

• The British Museum: Ancient Greece
• Odyssey Online: Greece
• The Greeks: Crucible of Civilizations
• Cultural Achievements and the Games

Mesopotamia Websites:

• Mesopotamia - The British Museum
• Odyssey Online: NearEast
• Write Like a Babylonian

Pompeii

• Archaeology's Interactive Dig
• The Destruction of Pompeii, 79AD
• Pompeii Sites

Religions of the World

World War I

• The Great War
• The Great War Series
• 1918 Australians in France
• World War I - Trenches on the Web
• Statistics of WWI
• Lost Poets of the War
• World War I Poetry

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