Links: Social Studies
- Teaching Resources and Lesson Planning
- Historical Resources: United States
- Historical Resources: World
Teaching Resources and Lesson Planning
National Council for
the Social Studies - Lots of good information that is well-organized and
easy to use. Contains extensive resources aligned with a national standards,
current issues, mailing lists, and links.
Learning Network -
Great links and activities plus a lesson plan search engine. Lots of outline
maps, graphic organizers and other great information for teachers.
The Social Studies
Center - From Texas Education Education. An effective and organized site
outlining major strategies for teaching social studies. Easy to use with loads
of good information.
Teaching
History's World Wide Web Links for History Teachers - Links, documents,
images, and more
Social Studies School Services -
Lots of links organized by subject and some teacher resources
H-Net Teaching -
Run by Michigan State University, this site has links to syllabi, lesson plans
and other curricular materials, listservs, and other really useful info
National
Resource Guide to American Studies in the Secondary Schools - Curricular
materials
Center
for Civic Education - Civics-related curricular materials
Teach With Movies
The New York Times
Learning Network - news summaries, daily lesson plans, quizzes, current
events
Mr. Donn's
Pages - Wonderful page created by teachers; devoted to all aspects of social
studies. Units, plans, links, and more. Highly rated by teachers.
Educator's
Reference Desk - Great resource for lesson plans in social studies and
in all subject areas
Primary
Source Materials and Document Based Questions - An excellent list of primary
source collections
History Research
Online - clearinghouse for historical sites
The Gateway to Educational
Materials (GEM) - The key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality
lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet!
Yahooligans:
Social Studies - The web guide for kids
Teaching for Change
Gender
Equity - "Gender Equity- Lesson Plans and Teacher Guide is a lively,
creative, and student-focused series of detailed and easy to use lesson plans,
organized into topic categories of: gender role stereotyping, language, careers,
employability, sexual harassment, gender and technology, and equity in the
classroom."
Teaching with Images
TreasureNet -
collection of historical images
The Native
American Experience (American Historical Images On File) - "This collection
of historical photographs...is a comprehensive collection of images of Native
American people. The collection is arranged chronologically from the prehistoric
period and the Paleo-Indians to 1990 and the appointment of R. Richard West
as director of the National Museum of the American Indian. The collection includes
information and images which describe the lifeways of various tribes and include
historical entries for particular Indian groups."
Images
of Africans from the 19th Century - Schomburg Center - NYPL digital collections.
Offers categories in the Civil War, Cultural Expression, Education, Family,
Genre, Labor, Organizations and Institutions, Polictics, Portraits, Reconstruction,
Religion, Slavery, and Social Life and Customs.
Multimedia
Library's QTVR Website List - Very extensive list of sites that contain
object movies on both academic and non-academic topics.
Lower
East Side Tenement Museum - contains virtual tours of several of the tenement
apartments.
PBS Virtual Tours - contains
several object movies on a variety of topics
Google Image Search - "The
most comprehensive image search on the web."
Maps
Perry-Castañeda
Library Map Collection - comprehensive map collection
Globe:
A Gallery of Images -
Hargrett
Library Rare Map Collection - "The Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript
Library at the University of Georgia maintains a collection of more than 800
historic maps spanning nearly 500 years, from the sixteenth century through
the early twentieth century."
Outline Maps
Museums and Photography
Museum of the City of New York
Metropolitan Museum of
Art
Museum of Modern Art - New
York
American Museum of Natural
History - New York
Schomburg
Center for Black Culture - New York Public Library - "...national
research library devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to
resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout
the world."
National Gallery of Art -
Washington D.C.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian
American Art Museum photography online (Helios)
Time
and Life Pictures - Defining visions of an enduring history