Content resources for K-12 Social Studies teachers based in MN. Also relevant to SS teachers elsewhere or K-6 teachers that are responsible for teaching SS as part of curriculum.
This looks like a really interesting film so I added it to my list of movies to get from NetFlix. Not very often do you see movies like this where females are the ones pushing to get unionized.
For those teaching maps and MN this type of document can be very useful for generating some higher level questioning about a variety of social studies topics.
I stumbled across this site when I was looking for different primary source documents and lesson. I thought it was extraordinary! I haven't played around TOO much with it yet, but from what I can tell when you get into it, and look at a document/photo, it creates a web to related topics in a nice little interface, making searching for them easy peasy (like I said from what I can tell so far). I was impressed with it. =)
From the site: Exploring the Digital Vaults is easy. You can browse through the hundreds of photographs, documents, and film clips and discover the connection between some of the National Archives' most treasured records. To use the media rich version of this site you will need to download the Adobe Flash 9 player.