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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."

A social networking site for classrooms

Social Networking sites for teachers. Teachers can share the ideas and even their teaching methods and lesson plans

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

BetterLesson is a social networking site for teachers to share lesson plans online. This would be a great source to use as a teacher to get Lesson plan ideas, Lesson Plans, and share your own Lesson Plans with others.

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.

Social studies teachers lesson plans chatting

Virtual learning experiences for middle school students and educators alike - especially concerning Science and English.

A resource for teachers to find help or resources related to specific math and science areas and topics. A sort of social networking site for both math teachers and science teachers.

Social studies lesson plans

"Surgically altering your social network appearance and getting rid of old friends will make you the ideal job candidate." 

This is a site that teachers can go on and share different things with different teachers all around the world.

schools are reacting to social networking by restricting teachers and setting guidelines for their behavior in their private lives

this website tells stories of teachers all over the states that have gotten in trouble with the schools they teach at by saying things on facebook that they thought were private to their friends. These stories make you think and realize that facebook is more than just a social place to find friends and keep in contact with them. We must be careful with what we say on the internet these days. You never know who is reading what you post.

A debate on whether or not social networking sites should be allowed in the classroom.

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.

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!

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.