Social+Studies+Resources

[|American Presidents Resources] (Miller Center of Public Affairs) [|Amistad] National Archive Document (Teaching resources) [|Amistad] - Additional websites with lessons, resources, and images [|Anne Frank in the World, 1929-1945] (Teacher workbook) [|Anne Frank] - The Diary of Anne Frank teaching materials from PBS [|Best of US History Lesson Plans] [|Big Picture Small World] (global issues games for social studies and science) [|Bills or Rights Institute] (Bill of Rights and Constitution Day Activities and Resources) Biography Resources [|Cartoons in the Classroom] [|Civics First] (citizenship education curriculum materials - lesson plans, resources, etc) [|iCivics] (online civics games, tutorials, etc for middle school student civics instruction) [|CIA Factbook] Teaching [|Civil War with Technology Blog] and Wiki [|Civil War in 4 Minutes Video] (from the Teach the Civil War with Technology blog) [|Civil War Animated] [|Colonial Williamsburg] Connecticut Freedom Trail media type="custom" key="4185909" Council on Foreign Relations - Interactive guide providing videos, graphics, text, and timelines on contemporary global political and economic issues)
 * Black History**
 * [|ATT Knowledge Network Resources]
 * [|Black History Homepage]
 * Ebenezer D. Bassett - First African American Ambassador; from Derby, CT (Teaching Resources)
 * [|History Channel - Black History Resouces]
 * [|Internet4Teachers Black History Month Links and Activities]
 * [|Pete's PowerPoint Station]
 * [|Thinkfinity Black History Month Resources]
 * Connecting Social Studies and Art Through Video by Richard Byrne**
 * Controversial Issues**
 * [|Google Directory - Society Issues]
 * [|Internet Public Library - Social Issues and Social Welfare]
 * [|ProCon.org] (Pros and Cons of controversial issues)
 * [|Social Issues] (King County Library System - Washington State)
 * [|Social Issues] (Multinomah County Library Homework Center)

[|Daryl Cagle's Political Cartoons] - Index and teacher guides Decades Project Resources [|EdSitement History] and Social Studies Lesson Plans Websites [|Encyclopedia Titanica] [|Expansion of the United States Map 1763 - Present] (YouTube video blocked at school; if interested see Terry for possible work around) [|Faces of America] (Teachers Domain - lesson plans, activities, resources on immigration, past and present) [|Farm Letters] (Dear Daddy: letters from a Minnesota family during the Great Depression) [|Fling the Teacher] (interactive history games) [|Flocabulary]: Hip Hop in the classroom - motivating vocabulary (concept) instruction using Hip Hop [|Folkstreams] American Culture videos with teaching guides and related websites [|Food Fight Glog] (Video of American-centric conflicts from WWII to present) [|Footnotes] (primary source documents by time period) [|Freedom History of US] (from PBS - content, lessons, activities) [|Free Teaching Resources from the Federal Government] [|Future State] (lesson plans from the US Department of State) [|Glencoe American History Videos] [|Google Earth History Lessons] [|Hippo Campus History Resources] (1400 - 1865) [|Hippo Campus History Resources] (Reconstruction - Present) [|History Games] (from History.com) [|The History Teacher's Attic] [|History Tech Blog] Great teaching resources here for Social Studies
 * Holocaust**
 * [|About.com Netlinks to the Holocaust]
 * [|America and the Holocaust] (PBS)
 * [|Anne Frank Internet Guide]
 * [|Anne Frank the Writer] (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)
 * [|Cybrary of the Holocaust]
 * [|Holocaust Memorial Center]
 * [|Holocaust Survivors]
 * Israel Holocaust Museum (images)
 * [|U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum]

[|Inauguration] 2009 - Websites with speeches, lessons, activities, and more [|Industrialization Lessons] - Lessons from the National Archives, teaching with primary documents [|Internet Archive] - Classic TV Commercials [|Image Detective] Investigations of how to "read" primary documents [|It's No Laughing Matter] - Analyzing Political Cartoons [|Literacy Matters] (content literacy in social studies) Maps.com (Maps GALORE) [|McDougal Littell Classzone] [|Multi Media Learning]- Worksheets, powerpoints, and other lesson materials for US History; [|free downloads] here [|National Archives Experience Digital Vault] - audio, primary documents, images [|On This Day/Beyond the Headlines] (historical event each day; includes what happened, causes, effects, and includes research links) [|Opper Project] - teaching history using political cartoons [|PBS Teacher Activity Packs] [|Pete's PowerPoint Station] (looks "youthful" but I think can be useful for SIS) [|Picturing the Century] (100 years of photographs from the National Archives) [|Primary Source Learning] Project Based Learning from NYC Department of Education (Integrating SS and LA) [|Revolutionary War Animated] [|Shmoop US History] (analysis of key dates, events, people in history) [|Social Studies for Kids] [|Social Studies Central] Stat Planet (graphs and statistics for countries of the world) [|Teaching American History NBC New Archive Videos] [|Timelines: Sources from History] [|TimeMaps] (dynamic history of the world 3500AD to present; atlas, teacher resources) [|Utah Education Network Student Interactives] [|US History Site] (lesson plans, resources) [|US History Teachers Blog] Vietnam War [|World Countries] World War I [|WWII Atlas of Maps] from Wikimedia Commons [|WWII] (Science and Technology of WWII) [|WWII Pacific War Animated] [|Women's History Month] (free resources from Gale databases) [|Women of Our Times] - Smithsonian Online Museum [|Zoom into Maps] ( hundreds of historical maps)
 * [|Grade 7 Activity Center:] American History: Beginning through Reconstruction
 * Activity Maker
 * Net Simulations
 * Audio Downloads
 * Know Your States Game
 * [|Grade 8 Activity Center:] American History: Reconstruction through the Present
 * Activity Maker
 * [|Net Simulations]
 * [|Audio Downloads]
 * Know Your States Game
 * More Social Studies Resources **
 * [|Online Simulations]
 * [|Video Map] (4:00min good historical presentation of region from 1954-1975; YouTube - so you will to override to view at school)
 * [|Animation of Army Movements] (BBC)
 * [|Short Films] from the BBC
 * [|Virtual Tour of Trench] (BBC)