This site is a great tool for any teacher. It has numerous resources for teachers, and categorizes them by both grade level and subject--including social studies. PBS also offers a wide array of technological resources for both teachers and students.
This site is good if you want to learn about the history of teaching. It allows the teacher to see where their profession has risen from. It also dives into the controversial past of who could be a teacher at the time and it is interesting to compare it to the present day.
I thought this site was especially fitting for our CI 335 class because it helps teachers incorporate technology into their curriculum and classrooms. It has links to an online textbook, primary source documents, videos, and much more.
The site includes an up-to-date U.S. history textbook; annotated primary sources on United States, Mexican American, and Native American history, and slavery; and succinct essays on the history of ethnicity and immigration, film, private life, and science and technology among many things.
This site is devoted to primary sources and ideas for teachers on how to teach a specific era of history. This site includes links to movies, powerpoint slides, primary source documents, lesson plans, and handouts for teachers.
I thought this site looked great because it has great video resources for teachers. In addition to interesting videos related to history, this site also has teacher uploaded videos of lesson plans they have taught.
This is a website which contains a variety of lesson plan ideas for teachers in all subject areas. It is helpful for a social studies teacher because it contains some good lesson plan ideas for Ancient, US, and World History.
History Matters is a wonderful online resource for history teachers and students. Among the many digital resources are lesson plans, syllabi, links, and exhibits.
The site gives alot of useful information for teachers and students, having many primary sources, examples of syllabi, and teaching strategies for U.S. history.
Here is an interesting blog post from the Cool Cat Blog. It is about technology in the classroom and how many teachers do not have experience with technology.
This site has words of encouragement for teachers. We all know that this job can get difficult so it is important to hear good things about the profession.
This is a section of the PBS website that includres resources for teachers. There are resources for all grade levels and subjects, but this is most relevant for future social studies educators at the secondary level.
This is the blog of an AP Psychology Teacher from Massachusetts. There are many useful video clips and links to other websites for any Social Studies/Psychology Teacher to utilize in his or her classroom.
This website contains useful information for teachers. Funded by the Department of Education, this website has lesson plans, primary documents, and helpful advice from current teachers.
Describes a series of interviews with teachers about the way they teach history and integrate other subjects into their classroom. Most of the teachers are elementary-level, but I found their comments interesting.