This is an article that gives an immense amount of ideas for literature to use in a history classroom. I feel that literature is an effective and interesting tool to teach 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.
Here is an entertaining video off of Teachertube.com. It seems to be directed towards a middle school classroom but overall a helpful video for students
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.
The purpose of this website is to provide the classroom with an accessible website with easy to find primary documents, which serves an especially significant purpose in a social studies classroom.
My super cool cousin uses this program in his classroom. Its much more engaging than power point and it is easy to use, you don't need the advanced version so the free version is definitely useful in a classroom setting.
Adding fiction into our social studies classrooms may be a valuable tool. Here is a website that has thousands of free online books available. Internet e-readers will be booming soon...free online books will be useful
Resource for supreme court cases that have 3 different reading levels for the various levels of education. It gives a description of the case and questions to consider after reading and strategies for teaching case studies