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The Kean University Library online database that houses the publications of non-profit organizations which focus on New Jersey public policy issues. This collection allows users to access these documents from one centralized, easy to use location. The texts of the documents are fully searchable and are catalogued with subject headings similarly to a book in a library. This collection allows users to access a variety of publications pertaining to economic growth, education, social justice, health care, and criminal justice. This fully searchable database is compiled of files derived from a variety of non-profit organizations from across the state of New Jersey in an effort to provide information on policy reform and solutions for researchers and the public as a whole to make use of.

"The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the use of Howard Zinn's best-selling book A People's History of the United States and other materials for teaching a people's history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. The Zinn Education Project is coordinated by two non-profit organizations, Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change. Its goal is to introduce students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of United States history than is found in traditional textbooks and curricula. The empowering potential of studying U.S. history is often lost in a textbook-driven trivial pursuit of names and dates. Zinn's A People's History of the United States emphasizes the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements in shaping history. Students learn that history is made not by a few heroic individuals, but instead by people's choices and actions, thereby also learning that their own choices and actions matter."

"The Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers (NewspaperCat)is a tool that facilitates the discovery of online digitized historical newspaper content from newspapers published in the United States and the Caribbean. NewspaperCat was funded by a grant from the George A. Smathers Libraries. Search by keyword, newspaper title or by city, county or state to locate titles. From your search result, click on the link(s) to connect to the digital newspaper(s). In many cases, this content is keyword searchable, depending on the hosting organization. NewspaperCat currently links to over 1,500 full-text newspaper titles with a goal to include links to as many US and Caribbean newspapers with archival digital content as possible."

recently published set of declassified historical documents. There are 73 collections of documents containing memos and transcripts of communications between diplomats and country leaders. There are collections of documents organized by themes and topics including those  related to the construction of the Berlin Wall, the origins of the Cold War, and Sino-Soviet relations. 

An Open Educational Resources site OER; in beta now. "Gooru is a search engine for learning that allows you to explore and study over 2,600 standards-aligned and personalized study guides. Study guides cover 5th-12th grade math and science topics, and resources include digital textbooks, animations, instructor videos and more. All resources are vetted and organized by teachers or Gooru's content experts, so you don't have to sort through the mess of subpar educational resources available online yourself. Gooru also makes it easy for you to connect with your worldwide peers to make learning a social experience. Post questions to an active community of students, teachers and experts, or find friends and peers to study with. Best of all, Gooru adapts to you. Based on the topics you study and your performance on self-assessments, Gooru suggests resources and study guides that will help you master the concepts. You can track your study habits and monitor your performance on any of the topics you study."

Not sure what resources are here for social studies but still looks like a very interesting site. Think you should check it out for resources and to share with students.

"iCivics is a non-profit organization dedicated to reinvigorating civic learning through interactive and engaging learning resources. Our educational resources empower teachers and prepare the next generation of students to become knowledgeable and engaged citizens. Founded and led by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, iCivics provides students with the tools they need for active participation and democratic action, and teachers with the materials and support to achieve this. Our free resources include print-and-go lesson plans, award-winning games, and digital interactives. The iCivics games place students in different civic roles and give them agency to address real-world problems and issues. They are rooted in clear learning objectives and integrated with lesson plans and support materials. iCivics curriculum is grouped into topical units that align to state and Common Core standards. "

"Zoom In provides units of lesson plans built around primary source documents. The collection of lesson units is organized into six eras of US History. Zoom In is more than just a collection of lesson plans and documents. Zoom In provides an online classroom environment. As a teacher you can manage multiple classrooms within your Zoom In account. "

"Dipity is a free digital timeline website. Our mission is to organize the web's content by date and time. Users can create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps."

Collaborative way to create a digital timeline

"A collection of primary resources-historical documents, literary texts, and works of art-thematically organized with notes and discussion questions."

Lots of discussion guides with excellent questions

Lots of discussion guides with excellent questions

Save, organize, and share your research

"For years, magazines and newspapers have used photo galleries to tell stories. Photos can build emotion, provide information, encourage a specific action and create great questions. We can have our kids do the same thing by asking them to create Five Photo Stories. It seems like a great way for kids to activate prior knowledge, review information, learn new content or practice summarizing. It's basically an all-purpose graphic organizer! "

Check this lesson out.

"This site contains lists of heads of state and heads of government (and, in certain cases, de facto leaders not occupying either of those formal positions) of all countries and territories, going back to about 1700 in most cases. Also included are the subdivisions of various countries (the links are at the bottom of the respective country entries), as well as a selection of international organizations. Recent foreign ministers of all countries are listed separately."

handy site for quickly discovering who ruled and when. Good for quick reference.

"It's a nonfiction nerd's fantasy: a database of nearly 30,000 feature stories, meticulously organized, sleekly presented, and fully searchable - by author, by publication, by topic."

organized by subject

"Recognizing that the archaeological record is the legacy of all human beings and dedicated to bringing the benefits of archaeology to a wider constituency, ALI was founded to address a number of critical issues now facing archaeology and its potential beneficiaries:"

Great list of apps to use in lesson planning and research.

apps are organized visually into categories like: curriculum review, research, contribute etc.

This is an amazing tool which helps you find information on dewey subject areas.

Check this site out. Great way to find sources for information.

"I resolve to embrace a sense of vuja dé. We've all experienced déjà vu-looking at an unfamiliar situation and feeling like you've seen it before. Vuja dé is the flip side of that-looking at a familiar situation (an industry you've worked in for decades, problems you've worked on for years) as if you've never seen it before, and, with that fresh line of sight, developing a distinctive point of view on the future. The challenge for all of us is that too often, we let what we know limit what we can imagine. This is the year to face that challenge head-on."

Another URL shortner, but better: Allows you to shorten mulitple links to one short link. So many applications for classroom.

This tool has so many applications for the classroom! Link takes you to video about the Fur.ly url shortener.

links to a vast number of lessons plans from the LoC. Organized by topic or by era

lots of lesson ideas from the LoC.