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National Council for the Social Studies is an advocacy group devoted solely to Social Studies Education. They offer support, conferences, and publications about current affairs in the Study of Social Studies Education.

Association for social studies teachers , lessons plans and resources to help with lessons

"The mission of National Council for the Social Studies is to provide leadership, service, and support for all social studies educators."

PBS Teachers has lesson plans and other materials from PBS to teach social studies in all grades

This is a really interesting site that is like traveling all over the world, but staying at home. You can use the internet to learn about destinations, remember goals, play games, write a diary and so on. It seems like a strange site for teachers, but I actually think it would be really cool to use in a history class, a social studies class, or a foreign language class. Its like traveling the world, but staying in the same room. They can learn about the countries we're studying about and write some ideas or questions about it on their blog.

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This is a great source for teachers. I have seen this used in Social Studies classrooms. It is a great way for teachers to integrate social studies with language arts and technology. This source allows you and students to create comic strips which can be compiled and printed into a comic book. Students can individually create a comic strop which portrays what they have learned about particular cultures during their studies in class.

Have your students create comic strips in the target language!

Nice website that has Power Point presentations already made for you (of course you can download and change them as you wish). I like this because sometimes it takes a long time to create a Power Point presentation! I particularly liked the one about "El Mundo Hispano" which talks about countries that speak Spanish, great way to integrate Social Studies!

This is an interesting site that allows users to create their own stories, using different images and info from the web. A teacher could use this to create a video or story relevant to the topic being studied in the classroom. That way, the teacher would visually engage the students and know that they can relate to the characters or stories that he/she created, allowing for a more exciting and fun classroom environment.

lesson plans and resources for social studies teachers

this website has lesson plans for history, geography, and current events. There is also a section on online activities.

This is a wonderful site that includes many classroom strategies that build vocabulary, comprehension, and writing skills. By clicking on the link of a strategy, you may find downloadable worksheets and even detailed descriptions of how to use a particular strategy in mathematics, science, social studies, or English.

Middle School Social Studies resources Lesson plans and teaching strategies

This website offers different links such as lesson plans and teaching strategies to help teachers teach history classes

Really neat website full of lessons and activity sheets to be used for your lessons, or in conjunction with your lessons.

This FREE website is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. Has an excellent repository of teacher resources and tools, offering content in categories like Arts & Music, Health & Physical Education, History & Social Studies, Language Arts, Math and Science. Has drawings available on materials developed by federal museums and archive collections, educational materials developed via federal agencies and programs like the National Science Foundation, as well as selected resources from sites like Scholastic Inc., the Alliance for Climate Education .

The website is sponsored by the United States and it offers many resources to integrate and supplement in your classroom. All subjects are covered on this site.

This website has literally everything you need for every subject.

This is good information lesson plans and resources for middle and high school social studies and history teachers