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Website renovations:
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Social Studies

Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids teaches how our government works, the use of the primary source materials of GPO Access, and how one can use GPO Access to carry out their civic responsibilities.

United Nation's Cyberschoolbus An eye-opening site that your kids will love.

PBS Kids: Democracy Project Designed for students in grades three to six. Online activities: How does the government affect me? Inside the voting booth. President for a day!

Doonesbury the comic strip - fun with current events.

FirstGov The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal.

GeoNet is a challenging online game from Houghton Mifflin and is based on the six essential elements from the National Geography Standards.

Mr Donn's Pages Lesson plans and activities.

PBS Teacher Source for Social Studies plans and activities. On the social studies page, select a grade range and a period in U.S. or world history to study.

Poster Education They create maps, posters, social studies lesson plans, workbooks, curriculum kits and many other teacher resources for social studies teachers.

Project Vote Smart provides a comprehensive database about thousands of candidates and elected officials and is dedicated to serving all Americans with accurate and unbiased information for electoral decision-making.

Lesson Tutor Social Studies for Kids gives you articles, fun facts, glossaries, and tons of links for all subjects of social studies.

World Book's Social Studies Lesson Plans.

Social Studies Topics resources, broken into topics, from the Federal Resources for Educational Excellence website, which offers hundreds of federally supported education resources from over 45 Federal agencies.

Michigan - Social Studies

MGTV Michigan Government Television. Sometimes live, sometimes taped. Unedited. Programming schedule and Cable Channel locator are on the website. Personally, I love MGTV. When I watch it my child is reminded that politicians can effect changes in the lives of people that are busy doing other things. Also, after a minute or two watching this, she usually goes find other things to interest and I get a bit of time to myself. *grin*

Michigan.gov The Official State of Michigan Web Site's Government section.

Michigan House of Representatives This website includes a kids page, the 2003-2004 Citizens Guide to State Government, a chart showing all departments in the three branches of our state government, and an explanation of how a bill becomes a law.

Michigan Legislature has legislative session info, MI compiled law info, links and more. A free service of the Michigan Legislative Council, the Michigan House of Representatives, and the Michigan Senate.

Michigan Senate My favorite thing about this site is the Kids Page. There are good coloring pages, really good explanations of what happens at senate sessions, a glossary of senate terms (useful for parents too!), and crosswords.

Michigan Start Pages "Michigan's Information Portal" Look at this site for all things Michigan including info on maps, counties, localities, regions, & government.

UMich Documents Center is a central reference and referral point for government information, whether local, state, federal, foreign or international. Its web pages are a reference and instructional tool for government, political science, statistical data, and news.

Michigan Unit Study is web-based, which means that all the information you'll study is online. Each section consists of a location, working geographically around the state, and information about that location.

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