Social Studies
PBS Teacher Source
This site is good for teachers for lesson plans, and also provides the National Standards along with the objectives! It tells teachers what skills they should be working on with their students in each grade level. It also has activities relating to different social studies topics. - J.J.http://www.pbs.org
Education World
This site provides a wide range of different educational tools to use in a social studies classroom. The site provides lesson plans for the Middle Ages, Exploration, Colonization, American Revolution, Western expansion, the Civil War and more. It is a very well-organized website and could be useful in many ways. - J.J.http://www.education-world.com/a_special/millenium...
Regents Prep.org
This site is great for review for the Regents exam. Good tool for young teachers to find out the information that the state believes to be important for the students to learn. Created by Jeffery Watkins. - J.S.http://regentsprep.org/Regents/global/themes/econo...
Teacher Oz’s Kingdom of History
This site provides a list of links to many different sources for primary source documents, background information, maps, etc. The lists of links are broken down by topics, very useful. Just make sure to check the validity of each site linked to Teacher Oz’s Kingdom of History. - N.P.http://www.teacheroz.com/
Best of History Web Sites
This site is a good source for history websites. It is put together by educators for students and history enthusiasts. It is a good jumping-off point for finding ideas for lesson plans as well as different history web sites and maps. The site can be helpful when searching for information regarding lessons as it has specific information for social studies teachers. - M.B.http://www.besthistorysites.net/
History Matters
This site includes interviews with veteran teachers who give many tips and examples, from interpreting documents to relating history to the present, as well as an unbelievable amount of primary sources and documents. - A.G.http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
History Lesson Plans and Resources
This site offers lesson plans and primary documents from all periods in history, and contains a lot of links to informational websites. This website was set up by Edmund J. Sass, Ed.D. who also offers an e-mail address to contact for more information. - A.G.http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/edhist.htm#WW1
History Wired
This site allows the visitor to visit the Smithsonian Museum from home or the classroom. The tour contains over 450 items which are accompanied by interesting stories about each. While the site is very useful and informative, it is fairly complicated to navigate, so students will need assistance. - N.T.http://historywired.si.edu/about.cfm
Digital History
This website is very useful for teachers because there is a button for which teachers can use classroom handouts, view lesson plans, and look at resource guides. This website also contains options for viewing primary sources, biographies, an interactive timeline, reference, room and more. - J.B.http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/.
History Teacher. Net
This site provides an overwhelming amount of resources for teachers. Not only does the site break down information by class (Global Studies, U.S. History, Advanced Placement classes), the main page has a number of important links. There are links to major government websites and newspapers. The author of the webpage provides current events information and teaching materials. - J.S.http://www.historyteacher.net
Nation Master
This site allows you to compare a wide range of statistics from different countries. After selecting the statistics you want presented, the website presents the chart or map displaying it. The site gives you very fast, up-to-date results. This site is easy to navigate and would be great for current issues such as overpopulation, economic status of countries, and death rates. This site does not provide historical information. - J.S.http://www.nationmaster.com
National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)
Teachers at all levels will find this site useful because it provides curriculum guides, national standards, schedules of conferences and strategies to use when covering current affairs. The site also offers lesson plans for some of the harder to teach topics. While this site is very useful, it also contains many resources that are not available to teachers, and the membership dues are expensive. - N.T.http://ncss.org
Social Studies
This site is filled with helpful information for teachers. The site has access to sites that contain old Regents exams, rubrics, sample test, and other useful tools for teachers. It is a huge time saver for creating lessons and units. The author of the website is The N.Y. State Education Department. - C.B.http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/social.html
Lesson Plans and Resources for Social Studies Teachers
This award winning website provides lesson plans for a wide range of subjects. It also provides resources for teachers, online activities, website links to the NCSS educational standards and a curriculum framework. - T.M.http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/
Social Studies Lesson Plans
This website offers lesson plans for social studies topics for grades 6-12. The plans are organized by grade level and topic and feature suggestions on what to include. This site also gives the credentials for the author of each lesson plan. - T.M.http://www.col-ed.org/cur/social.html
