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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!

The Gilder Lehrman Institute offers classroom resources and professional development to assist teachers in their classrooms. The Institute has pioneered new models of history schools and programs, with proven success in improving academic achievement. It offers professional development opportunities and documents and exercises for classroom use drawing from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, and encourages excellence in student writing with essay prizes. Common Core units for English Language Arts and Social Studies teachers Online Exhibitions on important topics including the Freedom Riders of the Civil Rights Movement and Battle Lines: Letters from America's Wars up to the Second Gulf War Historians' Podcasts including small video clips on essential questions History by Era, an online resource organized chronologically with essays by leading historians, a timeline, primary source documents for classroom use, multimedia, lesson plans, activities, and more Primary Sources from the Gilder Lehrman Collection Traveling Exhibitions for Schools and Libraries The Affiliate School Program is a unique gateway to education resources, events, and tools designed to bring American history to life in the classroom. Our network of schools connects teachers and students to valuable resources, including: Exclusive web content, including teachable documents, resource lists, and more Professional development opportunities, including preferential consideration to Teacher Seminars Free and discounted books, multimedia kits, and traveling exhibitions Unlimited access to the Gilder Lehrman Collection of more than 60,000 American historical documents Opportunities for students to participate in the Civil War Essay Contest and the Dear George Washington Contest Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Gilder Lehrman Affiliate School Program provides free resources and support for teaching and studying American history

"Designed for high school and college teachers and students, History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers other useful materials for teaching U.S. history." Check out "Making Sense of the Evidence" for experts insight on how to analyze

S.O.S. for Information Literacy is a dynamic web-based multimedia resource that includes lesson plans, handouts, presentations, videos and other resources to enhance the teaching of information literacy.

Teach the Civil War using our lesson plans. Created by educators for educators, our plans include all the needed materials and resources free for you to use in your classroom. 

Great resource to teach about the events of WWII.

Wiggins and McTighe

ActiveHistory provides entertaining, educational award-winning interactive simulations, decision-making games, self-marking quizzes, high-quality worksheets and detailed lesson plans for teachers and students.

"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.