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Ready to use primary source documents, lesson plans, activities and worksheets for all grade levels organized by era and topic. Also offers state regional lessons, and how to teach primary source documents as well.

Free, downloadable primary source documents and their lessons from NCSS. Written by National Archive staff.

An professional American history organization that you can become a member of for free. 60,000 PRIMARY SOURCES! Amazing, organized by era with VAST teaching resources. Top-notch educator resources.

A bright, colorful 7-page document that you could print for a classroom poster/anchor chart or to just use in a presentation for students that summarizes the SIOP reading strategy: Squeepers. PDF.

Professional organization with a mission to education all populations about the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Founding Fathers, etc. Info about organizations to join, upcoming events, and teaching these topics.

Information regarding our Founding Fathers, and ways to teach about them in a variety of classrooms.

Landscape-view bright and colorful poster for the ELL/SIOP reading strategy of Squeepers. Printable for classroom use, or can just be in a presentation to teach students the skill.

Very large and detailed image of Columbus landing in the New World that is made very well for prompting student discussion. From this website there are questions teachers can use.

Lexile Analyzer

Amazing blog from an amazing teacher who posts about VERY creative methods and activities that she uses to teach literacy both in ELA and SS classes in HS. What she does is all real-world, CC aligned, and so interesting.

Translated from Latin and abridged, this is Columbus's letter that he used to describe his arrival in the Caribbean. Shows how Columbus viewed the vast geography of the New World positively, but how he very much looked down upon the Native people. Can definitely be adapted and shortened even more.