This is the website address for the National Council for the Social Studies. Payment for full resources is required, however there is top social studies news including legislative action alerts and education news.
Best of History Web Sites features categorized and annotated lists of links to hundreds of K-12 history lesson plans, teacher guides, activities, games, quizzes, and more throughout its pages.
I am currently covering the development of American industry in my methods course and these are some really helpful links providing more detailed information about specific important people and events.
School house rock is one of those shows that I watched as a kid that made certain things really interesting to me. In a middle school social studies class I feel like these lyrics along with the videos which can be found online can be a great introduction to a unit.