SOCIAL STUDIES - LESSON PLANS
Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids
This site "provides information and activities specifically tailored for educators, parents, and students in K-12", focusing on resources that teach about the United States government.
Best of History Web Sites
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.
The Democracy Project
Activities and lesson plans about U.S. government. EconEdLink
Classroom tested, internet-based economic lesson materials for K-12 teachers and their students.
Economics Wisconsin
This resource includes lesson plans about how the economy works and making informed choices as employees, consumers and citizens.
Educators for Social Responsibility - Online Teacher Center
Provides teaching resources on a range of issues related to international security, conflict resolution, peacemaking, violence prevention, and social responsibility.
Federal Reserve Education
Links to instructional materials and tools that can increase your understanding of the Federal Reserve, economics and financial education.
KidsEconBooks
Teach economics using popular childlren's books. Lesson Plans and Resources
for Social Studies Teachers
Lesson plans and resources from the Internet which social studies teachers
will find useful. Includes educational standards and curriculum
frameworks, a section on teaching current events, and links to newsgroups
and mailing lists.
Library of Congress The Learning Page
Is designed to help educators use the American Memory Collections to teach history and culture. It offers tips and tricks, definitions and rationale for using primary sources, activities, discussions, lesson plans and suggestions for using the collections in classroom curriculum.
National Archives & Records Administration (NARA) Digital Classroom
Reproducible primary documents, educational units correlated to national academic standards, and cross-curricular connections.
National Council on Economic Education Online Lessons
Lesson plans on economics for K-12.
National Geographic Education Guide
Geography lesson plans, maps, photos, etc.
New York Times-Learning Network
Lesson plans based on articles appearing in the New York Times, helping teachers integrate current events into their curriculum.
SCORE: Schools of California Online Resources for Education
Lesson plans and other teacher resources arranged by grade level and content area. Social
Studies Central
Links to many lesson plan resources. Plus a selection of the "best" lesson
plan sites are offered.
Teaching With Historic Places
Teaching with Historic Places 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.
The
Underground Railroad
Produced by National Geographic, this is an interactive site about the
Underground Railroad. Also includes maps, classroom ideas and other resources.
Wisconsin Historical Society - For Teachers
Includes "resources to enliven the study of history and help students build meaningful connections to Wisconsin and local history".
 Other Social Studies Teaching Resources
Digital History
Supports the teaching of American history for K-12 students. Includes historical documents, classroom handouts, maps and much more.
History in Song
Lyrics of songs arranged by U.S. historical period.
More Lesson Plan Sites to Try
Awesome Library
A collection of links to lesson plans and lesson plan databases.
Core Knowledge Lesson Plans
This collection contains units developed by teachers in Core Knowledge schools and presented at recent Core Knowledge National Conferences. The units are organized by grade level, and within grade level by subject area; click on the links on the left-hand side to begin browsing.
Discoveryschool.com
Lesson plans written by teachers for teachers. Browse by subject, grade, or both.
EDSITEment
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. Education Place Activity
Search
Links to internet-based reading/language arts activities for specific
grade levels.
Education
World
Excellent directory of resources for K-12 teachers and administrators.
Includes curriculum materials, educational policy, lesson ideas, articles
written by education experts, employment listings, monthly site review,
information on how to make the best use of technology in the classroom,
and access to USA Today updates of worldwide education news.
Educational Hotlists
at the Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute's Educational Hotlists are organized lists of resources
on the Internet that science educators, as well as science enthusiasts,
may find useful.
Educator's
Reference Desk
"This collection contains more than 2000 unique lesson plans which
were written and submitted by teachers from all over the United States
and the world." -from the site
The Gateway to Educational Materials
The Gateway provides access to high quality Internet lesson plans, curriculum
units, and other education resources. The Gateway user can do a
customized search using subject and grade level.
IDEAS
Provides Wisconsin educators with online curricula, lesson plans, ideas,
etc. Can be searched by keyword, subject, grade, and by Wisconsin Academic
Standards. Excellent site.
Kathy Schrock's Guide
for Educators
Hundreds of original lesson plans, all written by teachers. Pull-down
menus enable you to browse by subject and/or grade.
Lesson Plans 4 Teachers
Extensive and well-organized. Lesson Plans Page
Over 2,500 free lessons arranged by subject and grade.
McRel Lesson Plans
Links to selected lesson plans and other resources.
Mr Donn's
Lesson Plans, Activities & Resources
Highly rated site consisting of lesson plans, activities, and resources.
NY
Times Daily Lesson Plan
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.
PBS TeacherSource
PBS TeacherSource groups resources into six subject areas Arts and Literature, Health and Fitness, Math, Science and Technology, Social Studies and Early Childhood. You can perform searches by subject, grade level and keyword while correlating the search results with 230 sets of national and state educational standards. Additionally, PBS TeacherSource provides special resources for library media specialists.
Teachable Moment
Timely teaching ideas to encourage critical thinking on issues of the day and foster a positive classroom environment.
Teaching Tolerance
Free educational materials that promote respect for differences and appreciation of diversity in the classroom and beyond.
Thinkfinity
A nonprofit consortium of premier national and international education organizations and the MCI Foundation dedicated to providing the highest quality Internet content and professional development to teachers and students.
Wisconsin's
Information Network for Successful Schools (WINSS) Curriculum Resource
Center
Thousands of high-quality lesson plans, classroom activities, etc. provided
by leading professional education organizations and aligned to Wisconsin's
model academic standards.
Yale-New Heaven Teachers
Institute Curricular Resources
Very detailed curriculum units prepared by participants in the Yale-New
Haven Teachers Institute. Hundreds of units on a variety of topics.
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