High School Curriculum
Sites for Social Studies Teachers
Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is
a classified list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing
curriculum and teacher professional growth. It is updated daily to keep up with
the tremendous number of new World Wide Web sites.
Mr Donn's Pages General
Site Index
Lesson Plans, Activities & Resources for all
social studies areas. Start with this site on your search for lessons, ideas,
etc.
Awesome
Library
The Awesome Library provides comprehensive educational
resources, projects, discussions, interactions, collaborations, lessons,
curriculums,
and standards for grades K-12.
History/Social Studies Web
Site for K-12 Teachers
The major purpose of this home page is to encourage
the use of the World Wide Web as a tool for learning and teaching and to provide
some help for K-12 classroom teachers in locating and using the resources of the
Internet in the classroom. The site provides an extensive list of interesting
websites for use in a variety of the social studies.
Knowledge Network
Explorer
The Knowledge Network Explorer is designed to be of interest
to educators and others who would like to know more about issues affecting the
schools and libraries. The content contains something of interest to teachers,
librarians, school administrators and technical staff, parents and children.
PBS
What
PBS gets is that the Web isn't the place for ads for the television content the
network is known for. It is about providing additional resources and content to
extend and enhance the broadcast product. PBS Online is designed to help the
Public Broadcasting Service and its Member stations advance education, culture
and citizenship in a digital world. Combining great content with imaginative
technology, PBS Online strives to offer unsurpassed Web programming that
educates, informs and enlightens audiences worldwide. As the worlds of online
and television converge, PBS Online intends to be a leader in pioneering the
digital future.
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American Studies
Web
An extensive listing of sites in many areas of American studies;
appropriate for teachers and high school students.
Biography
The Biography.com database
puts over 20,000 of the greatest lives, past and present, at your fingertips.
Enter a name in the box below to discover who they were, what
they did, and
why.
Civic Practices Network
A website to
"...bring practical methods for public problem solving into every community and
institutional setting in America." The site is worth a visit for the "Tools"
link alone, which offers a Civic dictionary (descriptions on many of the models
and techniques that undergird democratic practices), Manuals and
guides(full-text versions of manuals and guides for civic work), and Course
syllabi. A click on the "Topics" link will give you an idea of the scope of the
site.
The Inaugural
Classroom
The PBS website includes lesson plans -- over 15 separate
lessons on site, with links to other sites. Other items found in the table of
contents: The Inaugural Poet, Alexandra Goes to Washington (The Inauguration
through the eyes of high school senior--winner of the PBS Democracy Project
Presidential Inaugural Speech Contest), Test Your Inaugural Knowledge and
Letters to the President.
UN CyberSchoolBus
The
UN CyberSchoolBus is designed for students and teachers everywhere and carries
projects and resources about the United Nations and the world we all share.
Items of interest include projects, quizzes, resources, Model UN discussion
area, and teaching units.
American
Promise
The American Promise, a Web site devoted to helping teachers
use the program to bring democracy to life in their classrooms. The American
Promise® brings the American democratic system to life, letting students
experience firsthand what it's like to govern and make the decisions that bind
us together as a country. Since its premiere on PBS, the series has been used in
more than 20,000 classrooms nationwide to provide lessons in government, civics
and history, with ideas that intrigue and inspire students. Themes explored
include: The Touchstones of Our Society, Exploring freedom, responsibility and
participation, The Challenges We Face The hard choices and deliberations that
bring us together and the information we use to make those decisions.
Center for Civic
Education
The Center for Civic Education has included information
about the programs that they offer, publications about civic education,
curricular materials which include sample lesson plans, research and
evaluations, articles and papers on civic education and other Internet sources
that would be very helpful for teachers of civics. I liked many of the lesson
plans that are available. They have categories according to grade levels and
cover a wide variety of levels and types of activities.
Peace Corps
The
Peace Corps website has a variety of information about the Peace Corps,
countries that the Peace Corps serves, and a section devoted to the Peace Corps
global education program. There are lesson plans designed to help teachers
integrate global education into daily activities that are sorted by grade level
and curricular areas.
K-12
Electronic Guide for African Resources on the Internet
The aim of
this guide is to assist K-12 teachers, librarians, and students in
locating
on-line resources on Africa that can be used in the classroom, for
research and studies. This guide summarizes some relevant materials for K-12
uses available on the African Studies WWW. The African Studies Web also contains
information that is not listed in this guide.
Global Policy
This appears to be
a United Nations web page with teaching and researching
information.
Choices
"Choices" is a
nonprofit program at Brown University that develops supplementary curriculum
units on current and historical international issues. The Choices approach
challenges students to link history to current events, evaluate multiple
perspectives, weight conflicting values and priorities, and grapple with policy
tradeoffs. They seek to engage students in informed debate and to develop vital
citizenship skills.
Altapedia
Altapedia
includes key information on every country of the world, each with facts and data
on geography, climate, people, religion, language, history and economy.
National
Geographic
This site includes educational, interactive games based on
world geography. Topics covered include the locations of countries, interesting
landmarks, habitats and biomes, features of oceans and Earth's structure.
Integrated links to many other sites provide immediate access to further
information. Can be used for a few minutes, or for hours. Sections provided as
downloadable files, for off-line use with a web browser.
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AskEric:
Economics
The AskEric website has a variety of information
available for us in the classroom. There are lesson plans available for many
different disciplines and subjects within each discipline. Many of the lesson
plans are the result of work of the teachers who attended Columbia Education
Center’s Summer Workshops.
EconomicsAmerica
EconomicsAmerica
is the comprehensive program of the National Council on Economic Education and
its network of state councils and local centers on economic education. Through
these councils and centers, EconomicsAmerica offers curriculum materials,
teacher training and assessment --providing teachers with a wide range of
programs and methods that make economics come alive for students in grades
K-12.
EcEdWeb
In EcEdWeb, you
will find teaching resources for economics teachers from the K-12 level to the
college/university level, plus links to particularly useful web sites for
economics information and data for teachers and students. Some of the economics
curricular materials are lessons than can be used right away and others are
descriptions of larger sets of materials (teacher guides, lesson plans,
activities, etc) that can be ordered for a small fee. In these cases, ordering
information is provided with the description.
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EuroDocs: Primary
Historical Documents From Western Europe
The following links connect
to Western European (mainly primary) historical
documents that are
transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed
light on key
historical happenings within the respective countries (and within
the
broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history). The
order of documents is chronological wherever possible. Document collections not
limited to an identifiable era are found at the end of a national list.
The Labyrinth:
Resources for Medieval Studies
The Labyrinth provides free, organized
access to electronic resources in medieval
studies through a World Wide Web
server at Georgetown University. The Labyrinth's
easy-to-use menus and links
provide connections to databases, services, texts, and
images on other
servers around the world. Each user will be able to find an Ariadne's
thread
through the maze of information on the Web. This project not only provides an
organizational structure for electronic resources in medieval studies, but also
serves as a model for similar, collaborative projects in other fields of study.
The Labyrinth project is open-ended and is designed to grow and change with new
developments in technology and in medieval studies.
The Historical Text
Archive (HTA)
The Historical Text Archive (HTA) originated in 1990 as
an anonymous FTP site
in response to the need of historians to have an
electronic storage and retrieval site and to demonstrate the advantages of such
sites for the study and teaching of
history. When programs such as Mosaic and
Netscape became readily available,
the HTA was converted to a World Wide Web
site. Although the HTA is a large site covering much of human history, it does
not pretend to include each and every history site in the world. The most
comprehensive site is HNSource maintained at the University of Kansas by Lynn
Nelson. The HTA provides original material , links to other sites, and
electronic reprints of books and is organized by geography/nations and topics.
The directories contain subdirectories, so it may be necessary to explore the
site to find what one wants.
Eighteenth-Century
Resources
These pages cover all the Internet resources I've been able
to discover that focus on the (very long) eighteenth century -- Milton and Keats
are my usual endpoints. The
collection includes information on literature,
history, art, music, religion, economics,
philosophy, and so on, from around
the world in the eighteenth century, as well as the
home pages of societies
and people who work on eighteenth-century topics.
I've divided links into two
large groups: pointers to Web and Gopher sites are on the
main pages, but I
also have a set of pages devoted to electronic texts of
eighteenth-century
authors.