Has great lesson plans by category and subcategory. Most of the time when I've google searched lesson plans and found them helpful, they've come from this site!
Great lesson plans!
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So there are usually Daily Lesson Plans but apparently they are revamping the site so these are temporarily on hiatus. However you CAN access the over 2,000 lesson plans (in the "Lesson Plan Archive" below) they have on the site. I did a search for 9-12 grade economics lessons and hit paydirt. I <3 NY Times.
The site says that the "News Snapshot" is for younger kids BUT it might be a great way to gather background information on a picture and gives you all the information to give students contexts about current events.
Wasn't someone saying that their students demanded that this be on the board every day. Well here's a one stop shop to find information about what happened today (historically speaking of course).
SERIOUSLY!?!?!? The New York TImes makes themed historical crossword puzzles!?!?!
So many to choose from. I'm not sure how helpful this will actually be to students. It may be neat if they could play it online and google search for answers. Might be a cool way to learn even more information on events we cover in class. It would be important to not just make this busy work (why I had word finds).
This site is RAD! Current and Recent Events resource
From the website:
"Students can read the day's top stories using Knowledge Tools, take a news quiz about today's world, and play special crossword puzzles. . . .
Teachers can access a daily lesson plan for grades 6-12, written in partnership with The Bank Street College of Education in New York City. Each lesson plan and the article it references can be printed out for classroom use. Previous lessons are available in the archive and in thematic lesson plan units. . . The site additionally provides teachers with the latest education news from the newspaper. "
The Terrorism booklet provides a timeline, pre-video and post video activities, map activites, charts for students to fill in, and cooperative and differentiated learning activites.
There is a research aspect at the end of the curriculum where students are expected to take the knowledge they have gained and apply it to a historical or contemporary organization/group that engages in terrorist acts.
This curriculum provides various lesson plans, activities, graphic organizers, resources, and a video to have students connect world events to their own lives and others in their community, in relation to understanding global terrorism.
Say what you will about Harry Truman, but his library website has a vast cache of social studies links and resources, organized by topic. Some of the items go beyond social studies and into the realm of homework help and other teaching strategies. You may need to a dig a little bit to find exactly what you are looking for, but you can probably somehow get to it from here.
The Center for Global Studies is based out of the University of Illinois. Their resources primarily come from the University of Illinois but they also have videos and research submitted from other places. Always check the source!
I find most of the information to be useful when thinking about world history and global studies type courses.
www.worldstat.com is an educational site that gives you access to updated statistics for a fact-based education in order to ensure a greater understanding of the world without prejudice and misunderstandings
This website relies on CNN's news and history sources. Although a bias to the left in general reporting must be considered when viewing most CNN articles, the information presented here is historical, and mostly evenly presented.
If I was teaching World history, I would provide this site to my students to give them a general overview of subject matter - basically giving them a big picture before divulging into the specifics. I would probably create an assignment requiring the students to use and explore this website very early on in the year.
I think this site is valuable to Social Studies teachers because it includes a great deal of information in a condensed, thematic, easily to follow manner.
This website, made at the turn of the millennium, goes through the major themes of the past millennium, and organizes them based on timeline, location, major players, popular food, and basic overview.
This network is perfect for any classroom seeking to make a difference in the world through a hassle free and easy resource, specifically helping to start a social justice project or link up with one that is already started. The website allows you to view current projects, according to your class' interests, by searching title, keyword, subject, age level, or language.
This is a great site for students to use in the classroom. I used this in a middle school history class where we were studying the Middle East. Each student also had a blank hard copy to fill in with notes or to color. The students enjoyed working on the site and learned the material quickly...within the hour.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is significantly more than just a museum and it is arguably the most thorough site on the Holocaust as well as other acts of genocide. Just reviewing the website and all that it offers can take several hours.
Through the education filter, teachers can find complete information on how to teach the Holocaust or other acts of genocide. For example, the site offers online lessons, teacher workshops, essential topics, teaching resources, lesson plans, activities, and a list of common student questions. USHMM site suggests 5 guidelines for teaching the Holocaust, which include defining genocide, investigating the context and dynamics that led to genocide, understanding parallels to other genocides and analyzing American and world responses.
A function that I find very useful and interesting is the "Mapping Initiative" filter where one can learn how to use Google Earth to view a Darfur Layer file. This file provides comparisons of before and after views of villages impacted by the ongoing events in Darfur. There is also a section of photographs, videos, and testimonies.
In addition the USHMM maintains an archive consisting of wide variety of documents including photographs and films. Lastly, if field trips are a possibility, admission is free and there is a special children's exhibit called Remember the Children: Daniel's Story.