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Teaching Social Studies with good books, games, activities, craft projects, & more! Make history fun for kids! Choose from the following to make teaching social studies for kids both meaningful and exciting! The recommended books, activities, and projects are listed in chronological order!

"Historia is living inside the history you are learning." -Julia E. Age 12 HISTORIA was created by Rick Brennan and Jason Darnell, social studies teachers who wanted to get their 6th graders excited about history by creating a learning experience that was student driven, challenging and fun. Rick and Jason taught with HISTORIA in their classrooms for over six years, refining the design of the game each year. Other local teachers began to seek their assistance to implement HISTORIA in their own classes. When the project achieved national exposure by being featured by the Atlantic, Fast Company and the Institute of Play, Rick and Jason decided the time was right to seek a publisher to help develop a technology-based version of the product. Now together with their publishing partners, E-Line Media and Upper One Games, Rick and Jason hope to challenge students all over the country and the world to learn history by leading it. HISTORIA will be available for interactive whiteboard, tablets and Mac/PC in 2014. Here's how HISTORIA works: The goal of HISTORIA is to grow a civilization and keep it strong over time. Students work in teams to lead fictional civilizations that compete along side (and sometimes against) the great empires of the past. Highly competitive and compelling rigorous, HISTORIA is for teachers who want to give their students a deeply meaningful and engaging learning experience that they will remember forever. In each unit, or Epoch, students face a Dilemma about which their decisions will impact the future of their people. Students research history - using their textbook, trusted online sites and other resources - to understand how their decisions will impact the economic, military and cultural strength of their civilization. Students are also challenged to assess the potential impact of key Events in each Epoch that might occur and affect the progress of their civilization. As the results of each turn are revealed, the teams ref

ChronoZoom is the Zoomable timeline for Big History With ChronoZoom, you can browse history, rather than digging it out piece by piece. ChronoZoom is a timeline for all of history: From the Big Bang, to the time of the dinosaurs, to the present.

Create, collaborate on, and publish zooming/panning interactive timelines - for free. Timeglider is great for history classes, project planning, genealogy, and more. It's like Google Maps, but for time.

"Clara H. Isaacman Memorial Trunk Project" The PHEC has developed two (2) trunks of Holocaust materials: one is appropriate for middle school and the other for high school. Each contains maps, reference materials, a classroom set of books, DVDs, nonfiction (memoirs and diaries) and fiction books. The trunk will become the property of the school and should be located in a centralized area such as the library or media center. Each piece will be catalogued by the library for its main collection with the site specified as the trunk, and the librarian will create a special list of trunk contents so materials can be checked in and out properly. One teacher or administrator should be named who will serve as the liaison between the school and the PHEC and oversee maintenance and usage of the trunk.

The Lincoln Archives Digital Project started in 2002 with a simple idea for a vast undertaking: to digitize all federal records that exist from the administration of Abraham Lincoln. Over 6,000 documents are currently online and over half a million documents are scanned and in the process of being placed online. People from around the world now have access to the documents of Abraham Lincoln's administration, including Civil War records.

Welcome to ConSource, the free online library of the Founders' constitutional documents!