This site is dedicated to providing resources for Social Studies teachers as well as pushing for the advancement of the teaching of history in schools. It provides information on state councils, conferences, and recent news and events in regards to history education
A online model curriculum in World History for middle school and high schools. It is an continuing project consisting of material and resources from K-12 teachers, collegiate instructors, and educational technology specialists. Has teaching units, lesson plans, and other resources.
This is a website that focuses on the history of women from all parts of the world. Has teaching materials with primary sources, lesson plans, document-based questions, and other supporting resources. Ideally for a high school curriculum.
These is a website that provides quality educational resources. This website directs you to primary source documents that can be used for various activities or lessons. You can also buy various materials for teaching which are categorized by subjects.
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.
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
Here is the website for the Chicago Public Schools. This can be important to many because some of us might go on to student teach or be employed by the Chicago Public Schools.
This is off the Teaching Tolerance website, and it recaps Mix It Up Day during a lunch period. Mix It Up Day is dedicated to giving students an open opportunity to interact with other students that they never had interacted with within their own school walls.
This is a useful bog made up of various museums and culutral groups around the Chicago area. It promotes learning and understanding of culutral diversity by connecting these culutral centers to other institutions, mainly education. Would be a great resource for those who want to teach in Chicago
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.
The Junior General project is one that teaches students about military history and strategy by providing various simulations using historical miniatures (paper or plastic toy soldiers), maps and counters, and matrix arguments. The simulations are designed for middle school students.
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.
This site, as the name implies, is dedicated to controversial topics in education. The site offers ideas on how to proceed with such topics in hopes of not "stepping on anyone's toes." This is beneficial because all of us will have to teach controversial issues in our classroom.
Website full of resources for educators who teach for social justice. Curriculum and resources are amongst the many facets of social justice education discussed for teachers.