The Standards Section provides links to district and state social studies standards. State Testing provides a link to the use of documents in the New York State assessments. The three assessment instruments used in NYS are featured in this section - constructed response, thematic essays and DBQ s. Students have found the site to be an easy reference point for finding links to many interesting and engaging sites on the web. For example, elementary students can find links to Port of Entry where they can use their detective skills to uncover the stories of immigrants to the United States or click on The Big Picture to complete visual jigsaw puzzles.
Secondary students can find link to scores of interesting sites.
Sites such as US Historic Documents present valuable reference materials. Egypt World allow students to explore a virtual museum on the Ancient Egyptian pyramids. Links to sites such as The 1968 Oral History Project serve as a great model for a student-produced oral history project. A new resource gallery is being developed to catalogue documents by subject and time period. It will include a new CyberMuseum section where students will curate their own galleries of historic source material.