EDCI 567: Teaching Social Studies in the Secondary School

esigned to inform students, parents, and educators about the Federal Government, which issues the publications and information products disseminated by the GPO’s Federal Depository Library Program.

Includes lesson plans for history and social studies, may be broken down by subtopics, number of class periods needed and grade level.

Includes primary source sets, lesson plans, presentations and activities,and themed resources

Includes a wealth of information including online documents, lesson plans, special topics and tool, information about student visits, and more.

Uses historic places in National Parks and in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects.

Free learning tools on media literacy and our First Amendment freedoms.

Includes teaching materials, links to online resources, and access to the world's largest museum complex.

Includes articles for students, quizzes and crosswords and lesson plans for social studies

Annotated guide to the most useful websites for teaching U.S. history and social studies. We have carefully selected and screened each website for quality and provide a paragraph annotation that summarizes the site’s content, notes its strengths and weaknesses, and emphasizes its utility for teachers.

Introduces the activities of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, located in Washington, DC, and its important collections, in addition to presenting interactive exhibitions and providing resources for study of the Holocaust and related subjects. The site is composed of five sections: education, research, history, remembrance, and conscience.

Information, resources, videos, and lesson plans from C-SPAN

Study guides on a wide range of topics from The History Channel

Materials are designed in a modular system, with activities as the base unit. An activity will fill one class period, while a lesson (a collection of activities) can fill up to a week of class time. Units (collections of lessons) are designed for longer periods of time.

Includes thousands of free, high-quality videos, lesson plans, and other standards aligned digital resources for the social studies classroom.

Includes all sorts of information about the world including other countries, oceans, continents, rivers, cultures,

By Fordham University includes general African history, Egypt, other African Societies, religious influences, outside influences and more

Selected translations, transcriptions and copies covering Prehistoric and Ancient Europe; Medieval and Renaissance Europe; and Europe as a Supranational Region

From UCLA it is a powerful, innovative model curriculum for teaching world history in middle and high school. It includes a treasury of teaching units, lesson plans, and resources.

A portal to world history websites developed by the Center for History and New Media