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SOCIAL STUDIES
Lesson Plans & Other Social Studies Resources |
Current Events
Economics
Geography
Government
History
Tolerance & Social Responsibility
Wisconsin
Other Great Social Studies Lesson Plan Resources
 Current Events
New York Times-Learning Network
Lesson plans based on articles appearing in the New York Times, helping teachers integrate current events into their curriculum.
Teachable Moment
Timely teaching ideas to encourage critical thinking on issues of the day and foster a positive classroom environment.
Economics
EconEdLink
Classroom tested, internet-based economic lesson materials for K-12 teachers and their students.
EconKids
Produced by Rutgers University, this resource provides ideas for using children's literature to teach economics.
Economics Wisconsin
Links to resources that will be of value to the K-12 teacher.
National Council on Economic Education Online Lessons
Lesson plans on economics for K-12.
Federal Reserve Education
Links to instructional materials and tools that can increase your understanding of the Federal Reserve, economics and financial education.
Government
Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids
This site focuses on resources that teach about the United States government. It is tailored for educators, parents, and K-12 students.
The Democracy Project
Activities and lesson plans about U.S. government.
History
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.
Digital History
Supports the teaching of American history for K-12 students. Includes historical documents, classroom handouts, maps and much more.
Ease History
Hundreds of historical videos and photographs supporting the learning and teaching of US History.
History in Song
Lyrics of songs arranged by U.S. historical period.
Library of Congress: Primary Resources for Teachers
The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching.
Making of America
This is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
National Archives & Records Administration (NARA) Digital Classroom
Reproducible primary documents, educational units correlated to national academic standards, and cross-curricular connections.
Teaching With Historic Places
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.
The Underground Railroad
Produced by National Geographic, this is an interactive site about the Underground Railroad. Includes maps, classroom ideas and other resources.
Wisconsin Historical Society – For Teachers
Resources intended to enliven the study of Wisconsin state and local history.
Tolerance & Social Responsibility
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.
Teaching Tolerance
"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)
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Historical Society – For Teachers
Resources intended to enliven the study of Wisconsin state and local history.
OTHER GREAT SOCIAL STUDIES LESSON PLAN RESOURCES
Awesome Library
A collection of links to lesson plans and lesson plan databases.
Core Knowledge Lesson Plans
Unit plans developed by teachers in Core Knowledge schools and presented at Core Knowledge National Conferences.
Discovery Education
Lesson plans written by teachers for teachers. Browse by subject and grade.
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. Many of the lesson or unit plans have accompanying worksheets.
The Gateway to 21st Century Skills
"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)
Hotchalk Lesson Plans Page: Art Lesson Plans, Ideas, and Activities
Lesson Plans organized by grade range.
ide@s
Although this database is constructed with Wisconsin educators in mind, it is a valuable resource for all educators. Search by keyword, subject, grade, or by Wisconsin Academic Standards.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
Great selection of links to interesting social studies 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 Teachers
“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)
SCORE: Schools of California Online Resources for Education
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.
Social Studies Central
Links to many lesson plan resources, plus a selection of the "best" lesson plan sites are offered.
Thinkfinity
Thousands of free lesson plans and educational resources, including lesson plans organized by state standards.
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 Haven Teachers Institute
Extensive unit plans developed by Yale University in collaboration with the New Haven Public Schools.
Compiled: July 2011
Questions, comments, suggestions? Contact Stephen Katz at katz@uwosh.edu
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