Social+Studies+Resources+for+Teachers

      
 * [|The National Council for the Social Studies] - Standards, teaching resources (internet, print and videos), and links to social studies web sites.
 * [|Social Studies Lesson Plans and Resources] - links to sites with lesson plans for history, geography, and current events. There is also a section on online activities.
 * [|World History for Us All] - a curriculum for teaching world history to middle and high school students. This is project of San Diego State Unversity and involves the collaboration of K-12 teachers and university instructors
 * [|Social Studies Resources] - Plans and links from the Michgan eLibrary.
 * [|Social Studies] - Lesson plans and other materials from PBS
 * [|Social Studies Theme Units] - For history, geography, and related Social Studies topics.
 * [|History and Social Studies Lesson Plans] - From EdSitement.
 * [|Smithsonian Education] - Good web site for teachers, students, and families. It has lesson plans for all subjects.
 * [|Professional Cartoonists' Index] - A teacher's guide to using political cartoons in the classroom at all grade levels. This web site contains an excellent collection of polital cartoons organized by artists' names and by state. This is a great tool for teaching current events and can also be included in the Language Arts, Journalism, and Art curriculum.
 * [|CNN Students News] - Resources for both students and teachers.
 * [|New York Times Learning Network] - News summaries and a news quiz.
 * [|PBS News Hour] - News for students and lesson plans for teachers.
 * [|C-Span] - Topics for the discussion of current events in the classroom.
 * [|The Immigration Debate in the Classroom, 2007] - a list of online resources for teachers provided by the SCORE web site.
 * [|The Cyber School Bus] - United Nations education portal with information and activities for both current events and geography.
 * [|Teachable Moment] - Activities and resources for the study of current events.
 * [|Current Events!] - Lesson plans from Education World.
 * [|The Middle East Center of the University of Pennsylvania] - Lesson plans, resource materials and links to web sites.
 * [|The Council on World Affairs of Canada] - This site has study guides for many of the events in the news, and information on a model United Nations program.
 * [|Education@NationalGeographic] - Online expeditions, lesson plans, free printable maps, and, of course, National Geographic products for sale.
 * [|Xpeditions] - National Geographic site with virtual field trips, lesson plans, and maps.
 * [|National Geographic News] - Current news of geography and other science and social studies topics.
 * [|My Wonderful World] - A campaign by the National Geographic to improve student knowledge of geography. There are resources here for students, teachers, and parents.
 * [|Geography Lesson Plans] - From Discovery School.
 * [|Geography Home Page] - From About.Com. There is quite a bit of geography information here.
 * [|National Council for Geographic Education]
 * [|Geography Lesson Plans and Resources] - A large collection of lesson plans for all grade levels.
 * [|Geography] - Links to geography lesson plans and resources from ProTeacher.
 * [|World Mapper] - These maps are resized based on the subject of interest such as population, age, tourism, exports and imports. By the University of Sheffield.
 * [|Nation Master] - An excellent site for statistics from countries of the world. Your students will be able to compare education, income, oil consumption, life expectancy, and many other statistics. There are also maps and country information.
 * [|Teaching and Learning About Canada] Geography and history of Canada.
 * [|The Geography Educator's World] - This Canadian site has many links to web sites which will be useful to all geography teachers.
 * [|Retanet] - A resource for secondary educators who are looking for help in teaching about Latin America and the Carribean. Lesson plans and links to other useful web sites. From the Latin American Institute of the University of Michigan.
 * [|AskAsia] - This is a good source of lesson plans for Asian countries.
 * [|Teaching Resources on Southeast Asia in the Classroom] - By the Center for Southeast Asian Studies of Northern Illinois University.
 * [|StateMaster] - This site has a wealth of statistics about the United States. There are statistics for education, health, finances, and much, much more. It can be used for both social studies and math classes.
 * [|Geology.Com] - This site has maps and satellite images for the United States and the countries of the world.
 * [|K-12 Electronic Guide to African Resources on the Internet] - By the African Studies Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
 * [|Pennsylvania Lesson Plans] - Plans for Pennsylvania geography from ProTeacher.
 * [|Online Geography Games] - A list of online games from Geography World.
 * [|U.S. Government and Civic Lesson Plans]- From Mr. Donn's Free Lesson Plans.
 * [|Government Lesson Plans] - From Teach-Nology.
 * [|Congress Link] - This site has lesson plans for the study of the US Congress. There also links to other lesson plan sites and to web quests. By the Dirkson Congressional Center.
 * [|First Gov] - The US government's information portal.
 * [|Constitution Day] - Information and lesson plans for teaching about the US constitution.
 * [|The National Constitution Center] - in Philadelphia. This site has lesson plans for study of the constitution.
 * [|Pennsylvania Power Port] - Official state government site.
 * [|VotesPa] - Information for Pennsylvanians who are voting for the first time or who want to learn how to use the new voting machines.
 * [|Pennsylvania Uniform Crime Reporting System] - Obtain statistical information about crime in Pennsylvania. Data is available by location, age and race of offender, type of crime, and other parameters. This information can be used to assist in social studies research or in math studies.
 * [|The Best of History Websites] - A large collection of history and lesson plan sites compiled and rated by a secondary school history teacher. [[image:http://www.sldirectory.com/teachf/tegraphicsf/earth19.gif align="right" caption="globe"]]
 * [|History Lesson Plans] - US and world history plans from the Awesome Library.
 * [|American Women's History : A Research Guide] - Print and online sources in women's history.
 * [|The Conquistadors] - Based on the PBS TV series. This site has both information on the conquistidors and lesson plans for middle and high schools.
 * [|The Food Timeline] - The history of food with recipes and lesson plans.
 * [|U.S. History Lesson Plans] - From Discovery School.
 * [|United States History Lesson Plans] - From ProTeacher.
 * [|Links to the Past] - From the National Parks Service. Information on our national parks and lesson materials for teachers.
 * [|Lesson Plans] - From the Library of Congress.
 * [|American Heritage] - Lesson plans for all grade levels. Note that there are some lesson plans in Spanish.
 * [|Teaching with Historic Places] - A guide to teaching American History using the National Register of Historic Places. There are lesson plans on the middle school level.
 * [|National Park Service] - Curriculum based programs. If you are planning a field trip to a national park, this site helps you plan your visit and has teaching materials.
 * [|H.I.P. Pocket Change] - This is a site for both students and teachers by the US Mint. In the teacher's section you will find lesson plans using US coins.
 * [|PBS Online: Social Studies]- This site has a wealth of information relating to PBS broadcasts on history.
 * [|Crossroads]- A K -16 American history curriculum.
 * [|Digital History] - A wealth of information about American history. Lesson plans are keyed to primary sources. There are also biographies, chronologies, maps, and much more.
 * [|History Matters] - Site for high school and college students and their teachers. It has a wealth of material for US history and history lesson plans.
 * [|Teaching Future Historians] - Lesson plans using primary sources by the Illinois Historical Digitization Project.
 * [|Picture History] - A very large collection of pictures from American History.
 * [|The Age of Exploration] - Lesson plans for the age of exploration by the Mariners Museum.
 * [|Gilder Lehrman Center for Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance]- The Source Documents section has many primary sources such as court decisions, cartoons, letters, and maps which may useful to educators. There is also a page on the Amisted with related web links.
 * [|Lesson Plan: The Civil War] - Literature based unit on the civil war for upper elementary classes
 * [|Civil War Interactive] - An excellent starting point for locating civil war web sites. This site also has a Civil War Cookbook, On-this-day in the Civil War, and a guide to current Civil War shows on television.
 * [|The Age of Imperialism] - Lesson plan.
 * [|US History and Children's Literature] - Teach history through children's literature. By Carol Hurst.
 * [|Martin Luther King, Jr. Day] - Lesson plans for the holiday from Education World.
 * [|The History and Culture of Puerto Ricans] - with lesson plans.
 * [|Battle of Shiloh Video] - Help your students understand the Civil War with this battlefield recreation.
 * [|Mr. Donn's World History Lesson Plans] - Links to lesson plans for all periods of history. Also links to world history clip art.
 * [|World History Lesson Plans] - For all grades from Discovery School.
 * [|History Lesson Plans] - For elementary grades from ProTeacher.
 * [|History Lesson Plans and Resources]
 * [|The Student's Friend History & Geography] - This site offers a free alternative textbook for world history along with teaching suggestions for High School Social Studies.
 * [|Ancient Egypt Lesson Plans] - From the Detroit Institute of Arts.
 * [|Ancient Egypt Web Quest] - Online teaching unit about ancient Egypt created by a 4th grade teacher.
 * [|Asia for Educators] - This is a site by Columbia University.
 * [|A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese History] - Resources are arranged by subject, and there is a timeline and maps. There are also lesson plans in pdf format.
 * [|Archaeology Magazine] - Keep up with news in archaeology.