Subjects - Social Studies

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
Black History
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
Connecting Social Studies and Art Through Video by Richard Byrne

Council on Foreign Relations - Interactive guide providing videos, graphics, text, and timelines on contemporary global political and economic issues)
Controversial Issues

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

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
More Social Studies Resources
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
Revolutionary War Animated
Shmoop US History (analysis of key dates, events, people in history)
Social Studies for Kids
Social Studies Central
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
  • Video Map (4:00min good historical presentation of region from 1954-1975; YouTube - so you will to override to view at school)
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
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