Have you ever used technology in your classroom? Have you ever integrated technology into your classroom? If you didn't know already, there is a significant difference between using and integrating technology in the classroom. Using technology involves exercising or practicing, whereas integrating technology involves incorporating and combining.

   As a social studies teacher, it is much more easier than you think to integrate technology into your curriculum. There are numerous Internet sites available that provide teachers with creative, interactive, and collaborative lesson plans. In addition, these wonderful sites also include suggestions for modifying or adapting the lessons according to your class and include extension activities.

   Here are a few of the many Internet sites available that allow you to successfully integrate technology into your social studies curriculum.

• Discovery Education
• Teaching American History
  
• U.S. Constitution Online
  
• Library of Congress
  
• BrainPOP
  
• 50 States
  
• WebQuest.org
  
• PBS Teachers
  
• National Geographic
• Scholastic