Albert Shanker Institute – http://www.shankerinstitute.org

  • The Albert Shanker Institute is a nonprofit organization established in 1998 to honor the life and legacy of the late president of the American Federation of Teachers.

Best of History Web Sites – http://www.besthistorysites.net

  • Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality k-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.

Choices Program – http://www.choices.edu

  • The Choices Program is non-profit organization based at Brown University. The Choices Program develops curricula on current and historical international issues and offers workshops, institutes, and in-service programs for high school teachers.

Civics Online – http://civics-online.org

  • Civics Online is a collaborative, internet project working to provide teachers, students, and parents with a rich array of multi-media primary source materials, learning tools, and professional development resources to enhance current approaches to teaching civics in the classroom.

Facing History and Ourselves – http://www.facinghistory.org

  • Combats racism, anti-Semitism, and prejudice and nurtures democracy through education programs worldwide.

Historical Text Archive – http://historicaltextarchive.com

  • The HTA is in its 23nd year of publishing high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects. It was founded in 1990 in Mississippi and is one of the oldest history sites on the Internet. This site is dynamic with regular additions to its contents and its link collection.

Houghton Mifflin Social Studies Center – http://www.eduplace.com/ss/

  • Houghton Mifflin is one of the leading educational publishers in the United States, publishing textbooks, instructional technology, assessments, and other educational materials for teachers and students of every age. The Company also publishes an extensive line of reference works and award-winning fiction and nonfiction for adults and young readers.

Links to Lesson Plans, Unit Plans, Thematic Units and Resources – http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/index.html

  • Dr. Marty Levine, Professor Emeritus of Secondary Education, California State University, Northridge (CSUN), has gathered lesson plans and resources from the Internet which social studies teachers will find useful. These materials are presented in the table below. Select from the table to go directly to that section.

Mexico Online – http://www.mexonline.com

  • The Oldest & Most Trusted Online Guide to Mexico

National Council For The Social Studies – http://www.socialstudies.org

  • Social studies educators teach students the content knowledge, intellectual skills, and civic values necessary for fulfilling the duties of citizenship in a participatory democracy. The mission of National Council for the Social Studies is to provide leadership, service, and support for all social studies educators.

Social Studies School Service – http://www.socialstudies.com

  • From our inception in 1965, we have devoted ourselves to keeping the classroom challenging and engaging. We believe that critical thinking and inquiry-based learning are at the core of a successful curriculum, and we constantly strive to offer adaptable tools to connect with students of every learning style and level. Our steadfast commitment to this ethos has generated a consistently effective collection of resources.

Scrolls From The Dead Sea – http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/deadsea.scrolls.exhibit/intro.html

  • The exhibition Scrolls From the Dead Sea: The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship brings before the American people a selection from the scrolls which have been the subject of intense public interest.

Social Studies National Council for the Social Studies – http://www.socialstudies.org

  • Social studies educators teach students the content knowledge, intellectual skills, and civic values necessary for fulfilling the duties of citizenship in a participatory democracy. The mission of National Council for the Social Studies is to provide leadership, service, and support for all social studies educators.

Teaching History with Technology Provides lessons, activities, presentations, assessments, and more.

Kids Government

Center for Civic Education: We The People

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