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Social Studies
Curriculum Materials
Michigan Department of Education (check K-12 Curriculum):
http://www.michigan.gov/mde
Scope:
http://www.oakland.k12.mi.us/scope/index.html
Every culture, every geography resource – start here:
National Geographic Society
Provides educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites:
The Gateway to Educational Materials
Multimedia resources help teachers increase their expertise in their fields and assist them in improving their teaching methods. Many programs are also intended for students in the classroom. All Annenberg/CPB videos exemplify excellent teaching. Programs range from teaching economics to elementary geography:
Annenberg/CPB
Maps
Map Collections at the Library of Congress
Perry Casteneda Map Library at the University of Texas
History
American Historical Association
Michigan Historical Museum resources
Improving Writing Skills in an American History Classroom
The United States Historical Census Browser
National Endowment for the Humanities
American History
Say It Plain: A Century of African American Speeches compliments any American History class: http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/sayitplain/index.html
Oral Histories of the American South: First-Person Narratives of the American South" is a collection of diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts, and ex-slave narratives written by Southerners. The majority of materials in this collection are written by those Southerners whose voices were less prominent in their time, including African Americans, women, enlisted men, laborers, and Native Americans:
http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience gathers a massive amount of material documenting African-American migrations from the 15th to the 21st centuries: http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm
Documenting the history of the slave trade Slave Trade Archives:
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=8780&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
European History - BBC
Ancient History:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/
World Wars:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/
Roman history:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/launch_gms_cdx.shtml
Local history - any community:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/
Family history:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/
World War II and the Holocaust
Provides support materials for the 6 part documentary on the worst of the concentration camps. The DVD can be ordered from PBS:
http://www.pbs.org/auschwitz/
Using Data in Social Studies
Vast compilation of great data including lots of trivia for all countries and for all states from such sources as the CIA World Factbook and the UN. You (or your students) can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics quickly and easily:
NationMaster
The State of the World’s Children is released by UNICEF everyyear and has data sets that can be manipulated:
http://www.unicef.org/sowc05/english/index.html
American Government
Conversations on the Constitution. Created by the American Bar Association, the mission of this project is, “to further dialogue in schools and in the workplace about American constitutional principles and values.” Within the site, visitors can peruse a list of topics, such as war powers, the establishment of religion, and cruel and unusual punishment: http://www.abanet.org/publiced/conversations/constitution/
Economics
National Council for Economic Education Resources
Additional Resources
The Media, etc.
Interested in what’s happening in the rest of the world by reading their newspapers, listening to radio or reading blogs? http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/
Researching School Districts
Website of all school districts:
http://www.grandpajunior.com/School-list.shtml
