Social Studies

http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/

Lesson Plans and Resources for Social Studies Teachers

A college professor from the California State University at Northridge compiled links to lesson plans, online activities, current events and professional organizations. It has links to hundreds of activities and sites.

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SS.htm

The Lesson Plans Page

This is a comprehensive site that has links to hundreds of social studies activities.

http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/

Discovery Channel School

This site ties into the Discovery Channel with lesson plans and activities based on Discovery Channel programming. The programs can be viewed directly on the cable television that is in each classroom, or the teacher can request BOCES make a copy of the broadcasts.

http://members.aol.com/MrDonn%20Lessons/LessonPlans.html#HISTORY

This is a teacher’s site that contains links and reviews of hundreds of sites involving social studies for all grade levels. It has links to sites with free downloads of worksheets and activities.

http://smithsonianeducation.org/

Smithsonian Education

This is the Smithsonian Museum’s site for educators and students. It contains teaching activities and links to hundreds of online resources.

http://www.closeup.org/resource.htm

Close Up Civics Resources

This specialty site focuses on civics documents and links to government branches. It has teachers’ guides and online civics quizzes.

http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/constitution_community.html

National Archives and Records Administration

This site provides lessons and activities that address constitutional issues, correlate to national academic standards, and encourage the analysis of primary source documents. The lessons are arranged according to historical era.

http://universe.uiwtx.edu/%7Enewcomb/projects/Venables/court/Intro.htm

Here Comes the Judge

This is an interactive web-based lesson plan for learning about the Supreme Court, the Justices and landmark decisions.

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/socialstudies/

PBS Teachers

This site contains multimedia resources and lesson plans for social studies for all grade levels and topics.

http://www.oswego.org/staff/tcaswell/web/socialstudies.htm

5-12 Internet Social Studies

This site contains links to some of the best social studies learning sites.  The links include many interactive sites and sites with a plethora of valuable information on various topics.

http://classroom.jc-schools.net/SS-units/

Social Studies Online

This site includes lesson plans, interactive activities, worksheets, and additional links for grades K-8.  This site really emphasizes the use of technology.

http://www.classbrain.com/artteensb/publish/cat_index_19.shtml

Political Cartoons

This site includes numerous political cartoons needed to enhance the students understanding of social studies issues.

http://www.historyteacher.net/

HistoryTeacher.net

This site includes an extensive list of resources by area of study, theme, topic, and a variety of other online resources and links.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/index.html

The Library of Congress: American Memory Timeline

This site will lead you to sets of selected primary sources on a variety of topics in United States History.  This site is intended to enhance the teaching and learning experience by using the Library of Congress’ online collection.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TVS.htm

Teachers’ Virtual School

The site has interactive links to a variety of history sites by topic and era.  The links include sites with PowerPoint Presentations, primary sources, and much more.