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Social studies educators teach students the content knowledge, intellectual skills, and civic values necessary for fulfilling the duties of citizenship in a participatory democracy. The mission of National Council for the Social Studies is to provide leadership, service, and support for all social studies educators.

The TCI Approach. Although these are correlated with Social Studies, they can be used across the curriculum

NCSS has selected a collection of classroom activities, teaching ideas, and articles from Social Education, Middle Level Learning, and Social Studies and the Young Learner. Browse the collection, or search by historical period and grade level using the search function below. (Collections on other disciplines are under development.)

NCSS has selected a collection of classroom activities, teaching ideas, and articles from Social Education, Middle Level Learning, and Social Studies and the Young Learner. Browse the collection, or search by historical period and grade level using the search function below. (Collections on other disciplines are under development.)

This is a collection of Social Studies lesson plans designed for a variety of grade levels and topics. Some user submitted lessons are better than others.

Tons of free social studies resources including clipart, PowerPoints, games, and videos. Lots of information for students and teachers about a plethora of topics.

Interactive Learning Sites for Education

Site that allows students to create an interactive timeline for Social Studies class

A web-based provider of original source documents from various archives. This tool merges historical documents with social networking. Students can access primary and original source documents while sharing, communicating and connecting with others.

The National Education Association

You can search by grade level, subject, or resource type. Wide range of lessons!

Many social studies resources for teachers and students. Teachers can obtain worksheets, interactive libraries, web schooling, lesson plan ideas and much more.

Online video production tool that allows students to create documentaries from video.