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"In order to fully understand the geographic concept of natural resource use, students should learn about the ways that resource extraction affects the physical and human landscape. In this lesson, they will discuss how a specific economic activity in a region can facilitate the creation of towns, which often turn into ghost towns if the economic activity ends."

Educational information, activities and resources for educators, families, and students. Educational materials emphasize inquiry based learning with primary sources and museum collections. Smithsonian visit planning for educators, students and families. This site is an incredible resource for a teacher involved in any discipline.

In this age of increasing cutbacks in school funding, it is rare for students to be able to take field trips to museums. Thus, it is more important than ever to take advantage of virtual field trips where students can be exposed to primary sources and museum collections without leaving the classroom.

This is a resource geared toward parents. It could be something given to parents hardcopy, suggested reading for parents via the internet, and/or used by the teacher. There are suggestions for books, magazines, activities, etc. as additional resources.

Kristiana, I liked the ideas that this site has for parents, as well as teachers. Very informative and is filled with wonderful ways to guide our children.

This is an amazing resource from the MAGE center at Macalester. Click on each of the sessions at the top to see a list of free curriculum resources on Social Studies themes. Also look for opportunities to do free education forums with this group. Very useful materials!

PBS Teachers provides PreK-12 educational resources and activities for educators tied to PBS programming and correlated to local and national standards and professional development opportunities delivered online. As stated in the lesson plan overview: "Through the activities presented in this lesson, students will become familiar with the tenets of the Homestead Act, the shifting borders of the American frontier, and the life faced by homesteaders. After a class discussion and examination of a variety of Web sites, students will complete an written assessment in which they will determine whether or not the land available through the Homestead Act was, in fact, "free." This lesson can be used as an introduction to a unit on American settlement in the latter half of the nineteenth century, or as a pre-viewing activity to the PBS series FRONTIER HOUSE. A basic knowledge of 19th-century United States history is required."

There is also a Social Studies link for grades 6-8. This sight has a lot of links to other websites.

This is one of my favorite resource sites. It has all subjects from math to art and each subject has many websites that cover varying topics within that subject. I have posted the page on k-5 social studies resources.

Site offers many resources on immigration. Provides lesson plans, printables, references and articles to use in the classroom on immigration.

A new digital library of resources for teachers through PBS. 

Amazing resources for teaching content online.

Amazing resources for teaching content online.

Thanks to Stephanie M for sharing this resource!

Thanks to Stephanie M for sharing this resource!

Wonderful find for teaching resources.

This web resource provides several resources to reflect upon culture and how it affects our daily lives, especially in a classroom setting.

Great series of resources for program ideas for the classroom (mainly college, but some can definitely be applied to younger ages)!

Multicultural Resources

Great resource where teachers can link to sites that provide multicultural lesson plans, project ideas, papers with suggestions for incorporating multiculturalism into the classroom, epals, multilingual search engines, etc.

Science Resources for Middle School

When you go to add tags do the NCSS ten standards show themselves as separate tags that you can just click on?

United Nations Global teaching and learning website has curriculum, resources and much more to teach students about people and events around the globe.

Great resources for Social Studies projects!

Great resource for understanding key questions that shape the ten themes of the NCSS platform for social studies.

Great resource for understanding key questions that shape the ten themes of the NCSS platform for social studies. Thanks Jennifer B for finding this!