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Web Sites for Social Studies:
Curriculum Materials
Michigan Department of Education (check K-12 Curriculum)
Scope (http://www.oakland.k12.mi.us/scope/index.html
Michigan Council for the Social Studies
National Geographic Society : every culture, every geography resource – start here….
The Gateway to Educational Materials provides educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.
The Educator’s Reference Desk has links to over 3000 resources on a variety of educational issues, lesson plans, and links to the ERIC database.
Blue Web’N is an online library of outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). You can search by grade level (Refined Search), broad subject area (Content Areas), or specific sub-categories (Subject Area). Each week 5 new sites are added.
Marco Polo provides high quality resources to teachers and students. Developed by world-renowned organizations who are experts in their fields, these standards-based resources include lessons plans, student materials, reviewed Web resources and interactives.
Annenberg/CPB multimedia resources help teachers increase their expertise in their fields and assist them in improving their teaching methods. Many programs are also intended for students in the classroom. All Annenberg/CPB videos exemplify excellent teaching. Programs range from teaching economics to elementary geography.
Maps
Map Collections at the Library of Congress
Perry Casteneda Map Library at the University of Texas
History
American Historical Association
Michigan Historical Museum resources
Improving Writing Skills in an American History Classroom
The United States Historical Census Browser
National Endowment for the Humanities
American History
Say It Plain: A Century of African American Speeches compliments any American History class. http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/sayitplain/index.html
Oral Histories of the American South: First-Person Narratives of the American South" is a collection of diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives written by Southerners. The majority of materials in this collection are written by those Southerners whose voices were less prominent in their time, including African Americans, women, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience gathers a massive amount of material documenting African-American migrations from the 15th to the 21st centuries http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm
Documenting the history of the slave trade Slave Trade Archives [pdf] http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=8780&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
European History
The BBC has great website with a European perspective. Topics include Ancient History, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/ British History, World Wars, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/ and Recent Events. There is lots of Egyptian, Greek and Roman history here too, including an interactive video game on Roman history.http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/launch_gms_cdx.shtml One section will help you do a “local history” of your own – and will work in any community. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/ or a family history. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/
World War II and the Holocaust
http://www.pbs.org/auschwitz/ provides support materials for the 6 part documentary on the worst of the concentration camps. The DVD can be ordered from PBS.
Using Data in Social Studies
NationMaster is a vast compilation of great data including lots of trivia for all countries and for all states from such sources as the CIA World Factbook and the UN. You (or your students) can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics quickly and easily.
The State of the World’s Children is released by UNICEF everyyear and has data sets that can be manipulated. http://www.unicef.org/sowc05/english/index.html
American Government
Conversations on the Constitution. Created by the American Bar Association, the mission of this project is, “to further dialogue in schools and in the workplace about American constitutional principles and values.” Within the site, visitors can peruse a list of topics, such as war powers, the establishment of religion, and cruel and unusual punishment. http://www.abanet.org/publiced/conversations/constitution/
Economics
Economics Education on the Web
National Council for Economic Education Resources
Additional Resources
The Media, etc.
Interested in what’s happening in the rest of the world by reading their newspapers, listening to radio or reading blogs? http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/
Researching School Districts
School Evaluation System of Standard and Poors
Websites of all school districts:
http://www.grandpajunior.com/School-list.shtml
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