Social Studies Online Resources
GIS Websites
Mapping the Economic effects of the Civil War
General Websites
LearnNC - an excellent home-grown website complete with NC standards and lesson plans aligned to the standards and soooo much more!
American Memory from the Library of Congress - excellent website complete with audio interviews, historic images and other historical artifacts. Includes lesson plans and teaching suggestions.
PBS Teachers - Includes podcasts and projects for classes to join. The current project is an effort by PBS and the Library of Congress to record World War II veteran stories in preparation for the Ken Burns September 2007 documentary, The War.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - General History & Social Studies Sites - Links reviewed and continually revised to select the best of the best!
Blue Web'N - award-winning "online library of 2111 outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects)." Sign up to have projects emailed to you.
From Now On.Org - an excellent technology journal authored by a former teacher, principal, and superintendent which supports technology integration through thinking skills and questioning.
The Bill of Rights Institute - This site has eLessons about the constitution and laws that include historical content, classroom activities, discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading.
Teaching with Documents - an award-winning website that helps teachers use primary resources with their students.
CNN Student News - a site that suggests ways to integrate current events into your curriculum.
Literacy Matters - Social Studies - a site that helps social studies teachers to integrate literacy strategies into their curriculum.
Teachers.Net - lesson plan exchange.
ArtsEdge - lessons developed from the Kennedy Center which integrate the arts into the curriculum.
Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture - a special digital collection based at Duke of "published and unpublished materials that reflect the public and private lives of women, past and present." Other digital collections include advertisements, African American women, Civil War women, digital Durham, and more can be found from the Duke University Libraries Special Collections site.
EduHound.com - is a K-12 directory with lesson plans and topic-based online resources. It also has a free clipart collection.
Doc Cop - a new free website for educators to combat plagarism.
Midlink Magazine - while this magazine is designed for middle school students, the projects are awesome and could be adapted by high school teachers.
Hotchalk is beginning a new partnership with NBC News to provide access to over 5,000 video resources aligned with social studies courses. There is currently a free trial period for educators.
Annenberg Media Teacher Resources - includes some free video resources and more.
The History Channel - includes a video gallery, and other great resources such as speeches, This Day in History, Take a Veteran to School Day project, and classroom resources.
Moving Image Archive is A library of free movies, films, and videos that preceded YouTube. Contains thousands of digital classic films, news broadcasts, and more. Most can be downloaded and you can upload videos here as well.EdSITEment - is a product of the National Endowment for the Humanities with lesson plans and humanities resources from around the world.
The Open Video Project - another website designed "to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities."Donors Choose - a nonprofit website where teachers submit project proposals for materials or other resources and individuals, companies, corporations, and others pick and choose which projects they would like to help fund.
United Streaming - a video resource with a 30-day free trial period.
ListServs
ListServs are email discussion groups dedicated to topics of interest to, in this case, social studies educators. Usually to subscribe you send an email to the listserv link and put subscribe in the subject line.
MEGA - MEGA was developed as a partnership between middle grades teachers and NC State's College of Education for enabling educators to teach and use technology in the classroom. The focus of this organization has grown to include ALL teachers. You can join the listserve at http://www.ncsu.edu/mega/joinform.htmlSocial Studies listserv - offered through Classroom Connect, this list "is designed to allow for discussion of current trends and ideas about the teaching of K-12 and university level social studies worldwide."
AERA history listservTeaching Social Studies in High School listserv
MultiMedia and New Technologies in Humanities Teaching
Social Studies listserv (out of Ohio)
Teaching American History listserv
Hands-On History Teaching listserv
last updated 12/12/07
