Villa Cresta Elementary School

Practice Your Social Studies Skills!

	Type of Activity	Name of Activity/URL
Categorizing	Identify features of members of a group	Oddball
Communities	Learn about places in a community	Your Neighborhood
Economics	videos and descriptions of production of goods	Mister Rogers' Factory Tours
Jamestown Adventure	You can be the colonist! Make decisions about how to set up a colony in Virginia	http://www.jamestown2007.org/kids-jamestown-adventure.cfm
Colonial Maryland	Online Field Trip	Exploring Maryland's Roots
American Revolution	Historic events and timeline	Chronicle of the Revolution
	Test your knowledge	Road to Revolution
United States	learn and practice US states, capitals and geographic regions	U.S. Geography Games
	Drag state name onto map - timed quiz	U.S. Geography Quiz
World Culture	Cultural information about countries around the world	Culture Quest
China	Directory of websites about China	KidsKonnect China
Online Encyclopedia for kids	Reference	Enchanted Learning Encyclopedia
BCPS Fee-Based Databases	Resources for student research	World Book, Brain Pop, CultureGrams, etc.
		click here to access passwords for Databases
Famous Speeched	Full text and original audio of famous historical and movie speeches	American Rhetoric
News for kids		Time for kids
		Scholastic Magazine
		Weekly Reader