Social Studies

Meridian is great - they can arrange for someone to come to your classroom about another country. They can talk about the country's history, politics, and especially culture. They even bring lots of visuals and props that students can use. I am having someone from Meridian come to my class to talk about India when I teach about Gandhi. Check it out!

Meridian is great - they can arrange for someone to come to your classroom about another country. They can talk about the country's history, politics, and especially culture. They even bring lots of visuals and props that students can use. I am having someone from Meridian come to my class to talk about India when I teach about Gandhi. Check it out!

Meridian is great - they can arrange for someone to come to your classroom about another country. They can talk about the country's history, politics, and especially culture. They even bring lots of visuals and props that students can use. I am having someone from Meridian come to my class to talk about India when I teach about Gandhi. Check it out!

This is a lesson I used in order to teach students how perception often determines how maps are made. This activity is especially good for students that struggle with reading/writing since there isn't much involved with the activity.

Considering our focus on economics for this week, I thought it would be prudent to take a look a the budget President Obama has laid out for the United States. The section on education could be used in our classes to discuss the impact it will have students.

Washington Post Magazine: D.C. 1791 to Today - Working with the Washington Post and washingtonpost.com, a team of students at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill developed a series of images to digitally illustrate the myriad changes to the architecture and landscape of Washington, D.C. since the city's inception in 1791. Working from maps, plans, drawings, and photographs, the UNC students have represented the physical history of Washington in a set of time slices, showing side-by-side views of familiar landscapes, then and now, and modeling significant changes to important buildings and monuments.">

Wow- this a perfect map for my 5th grade class on the history of DC! Thanks Julian- JB

This is a great audio-visual representation of the German occupation of Europe during World War II.

These National Geography Standards are similar to Indiana's standards, and are also helpful.

Reading about "geographic thinking" brought back horrible repressed memories of teaching World Geography last semester. There are no DCPS geography standards and, as you may have noticed, it is difficult to define what exactly it means to think/teach geographically (beyond memorizing the locations of countries on maps). I struggled a lot with this concept, but the best guidance I was able to find was from the Indiana World Geography Standards.

Just in case you don't have your book with you, you can access this website to read the necessary chapter online.

Table of Contents - thebigview.com takes a bird's eye view on issues such as philosophy, religion, science and human life.

A good site for teaching Buddhism for elementary and secondary education students.

This is a phamplet handed out during the Cold War. I recreate them and hand them to my students as they walk into class.

Interesting and extensive lists of primary sources dealing with the Atomic Bomb. Includes various diary entries. Shows mostly a US side.