Social Studies
Online Curriculum Resources
for K-12 Teachers
Social Studies Websites Courtesy of Teacher Certification Program,
University of Washington, Bothell, Summer 2001
www.theteachersguide.com/lessonplans.html
A visual site with lots of areas for teachers and parents. Includes Special Education and items for sale.
www.libsci.sc.edu/miller/Share.htm
A general lesson plan directory created by a professor at the University of South Carolina.
faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/CLA
The University of Illinois collaborative Lesson Archive. Pre-k-undergrad. A plethora of lessons for just about anything you're looking for, plan on spending some time though.
www.col-ed.org/cur/social.html
This site has mini-lessons on everything on American History (grades 4-8) and Geography-how to use a map (grades k-4).
http://home.teleport.com/~dleahy/lesson.htm
A fun busy site with lots of emphasis on connecting students to the web. Fresh lesson ideas and planning for K-12, aesthetically pleasing with lots of links.
www.usask.ca/education/ideas/tplan/sslp/sslp.htm
Social Studies lesson and unit plans for elementary level, some overlapping, nice chart easy to navigate. Not a lot of frills, but fast and easy to access.>
topwww.csun.edu/~hcedu013/plans.html
This web page includes lesson plans and teaching strategies for elementary and intermediate grades, 6-8. One example of a teaching strategy offers suggestions to put students online in social studies classrooms.
www.nwrel.org/sky/Library/Materials_Search/Lesson_Plans/
Lesson_Plans.html
The Library in the Sky, a well-known and used site by educators. Easily to use. Lesson Plans organized by subject area; also allows word searches.
www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/SocialStudies.html
Teachers Helping Teachers is a website developed by teachers from all over the country. One example is "An Opening Time Line Project" (grades 3-8). It provides information about materials and the method for successfully completing this lesson.
www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/socialstd/FT/
Field_Trip_start.html
This social studies field trip site allows students to search and investigate sites for possible field trips. By searching a database for the "location", i.e. city, county, and "type" of field trip, students can enhance a social studies unit.
teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/
Scholastic's site for lessons, units, and reproducible material grades prek-8. You can choose grade level, then subject before you do a search.
www.csrnet.org/csrnet/teachresource/socialplans.html
An Awesome Library link from this web page has carefully reviewed education resources for teachers, students and librarians. One example is a government site that provides information on U. S. senators and representatives for upper elementary students.
www.esconett.org/donnaisd/Student%20Activities/
Esocialstudies.htm
This site has games such as "Find the Oceans and Continents." Students can also grade the games.
http://www.lightspan.com
This website has good descriptions of sites for students to choose. It also has links to "study buddy" which has an index of helpful activities, i.e. maps, encyclopedia.
www.pitt.edu/~poole/eledGeography.html#countries
Some links are created by elementary schools, and others are created by National Geographic and Discovery.com. You have to be careful to check the links for accuracy and authorship. Lesson plans for teachers and even a satellite view students can manipulate to see how their homes look from space.
earlyamerica.com/
This site is interesting if looking for resource material for revolutionary America.
www.outreach.washington.edu/k12guide/
This site takes you to resources of UW dealing with social studies as well as a host of other subjects.
www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/
Dr. Marty Levine, Professor Emeritus of Secondary Education, California State University, Northridge (CSUN), has gathered lesson plans and resources from the Internet which social studies teachers will find useful. Includes links to the National Standards and Education Framework. Including working with current events.
http://my.execpc.com/~dboals/boals.html
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.
www.hpol.org/
This site is entitled History Out Loud. It is a collection of speeches and other recordings throughout 20th century.
www.si.edu/
The Smithsonian Institution site, this is an amazing interactive site. One drawback is that "fat pipes" are required to access all features, but there is an option for less sophisticated gear.
www.socialstudies.org/
This website is a national social studies teachers group. It also is a link to many more specific sites, but requires membership – check it out to see if it meets your needs.
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