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Social Studies Lesson Plans
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New York Times-Learning Network
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Lesson plans based on articles appearing in the New York Times, helping teachers integrate current events into their curriculum.
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Teachable Moment
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Timely teaching ideas to encourage critical thinking on issues of the day and foster a positive classroom environment.
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Best of History Web Sites
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Best of History Web Sites features links to K-12 lesson plans, teacher guides, activities, games, quizzes, and more throughout its pages. It contains links to over 800 history-related web sites that have been reviewed for quality, accuracy, and usefulness.
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Digital History
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Supports the teaching of American history for K-12 students. Includes historical documents, classroom handouts, maps and much more.
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History in Song
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Lyrics of songs arranged by U.S. historical period.
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Library of Congress: Lesson Plans Using Primary Sources
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The Library of Congress offers lesson plans and classroom materials that use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections.
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Making of America
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This is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
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National Archives & Records Administration (NARA) Digital Classroom
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Reproducible primary documents, educational units correlated to national academic standards, and cross-curricular connections.
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Teaching With Historic Places
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This resource uses properties listed in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects. Includes activities that help teachers bring historic places into the classroom.
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The Underground Railroad
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Produced by National Geographic, this is an interactive site about the Underground Railroad. Includes maps, classroom ideas and other resources.
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This Day in History
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A very good resource for those assignments requiring students to access information about the day they were born.
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Wisconsin Historical Society – For Teachers
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Resources intended to enliven the study of Wisconsin state and local history.
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Educators for Social Responsibility - Online Teacher Center
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Provides teaching resources on a range of issues related to international security, conflict resolution, peacemaking, violence prevention, and social responsibility.
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Teaching Tolerance
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"Founded in 1991 by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Teaching Tolerance is dedicated to reducing prejudice, improving intergroup relations and supporting equitable school experiences for our nation's children." (from the website)
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Awesome Library
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A collection of links to lesson plans and lesson plan databases.
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C-Span Classroom
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Free primary source materials for social studies teachers
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Core Knowledge Lesson Plans
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Unit plans developed by teachers in Core Knowledge schools and presented at Core Knowledge National Conferences.
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Discovery Education
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Lesson plans written by teachers for teachers. Browse by subject and grade.
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EDSITEment
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Lesson plans and websites from the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation. Many of the lesson or unit plans have accompanying worksheets.
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The Gateway to 21st Century Skills
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"The Gateway has been serving teachers continuously since 1996 which makes it one of the oldest publically accessible U.S. repositories of education resources on the Web. The Gateway contains a variety of educational resource types from activities and lesson plans to online projects to assessment items.” (from the website)
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Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
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Great selection of links to interesting social studies resources.
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NY Times Daily Lesson Plan
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Hundreds of lesson plans for grades 6-12 based on articles that have appeared in the New York Times. This is a joint endeavor with the Bank Street School of Education. Many interesting features.
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PBS Teachers
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“We provide thousands of lesson plans, teaching activities, on-demand video assets, and interactive games and simulations. These resources are correlated to state and national educational standards and are tied to PBS' award-winning on-air and online programming like NOVA, Nature, Cyberchase, Between the Lions and more.” (from the website)
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Resources for Teaching Social Studies in the Elementary School
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University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Professor Ava McCall's website.
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SCORE: Schools of California Online Resources for Education
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Lesson plans and other teacher resources arranged by grade level and content area. This was last updated in 2006, but it appears to be still useful.
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Social Studies Central
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Links to many lesson plan resources, plus a selection of the "best" lesson plan sites are offered.
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Thinkfinity
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Thousands of free lesson plans and educational resources, including lesson plans organized by state standards.
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Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
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Extensive unit plans developed by Yale University in collaboration with the New Haven Public Schools.
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Stephen Katz
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