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Social Studies Ideas
The Annenberg Learner, from the Annenberg Foundation, is a collection of classroom resources sortable by discipline and by grade. From step-by-step lesson plans on a variety of topics from the Wild West to neuroscience to literature to multimedia resources, there is something here for all types of teaching and learning styles. Some of the resources here are free; to access complete programs, purchase is necessary.
Chuck Taft's American History Rules!
Mr. Taft provides extensive lesson ideas, links to contents, and full units of online content for American history.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provides extensive lessons by subject area for history and social studies, language arts, arts & culture, and foreign languages.
Greg Kulowiec's The History 2.0 Classroom
This information provides extensive information, instructional strategies, examples, and videos for teaching history with technology.
Created at New Milford High School in New Jersey, students travel abroad each year and critically reflect on their learning while students, teachers, parents, and other stakeholders comment back here in NJ and all over the world.
Power, Prejudice and Preventing Ethnic Conflict
Martin Luther King's legacy is to endure, we need to empower today's young
people, not only with his vision of personal transformation and political
change, but with the practical abilities needed to translate that vision into
an ever deepening social reality. That includes understanding the relationship
between power, prejudice and ethnic conflict and how stereotypes can work as
the justifying rationale for social injustice.
Mission US is a multimedia project featuring free interactive adventure games set in different eras of U.S. history. The first game, Mission 1: “For Crown or Colony?,” puts the player in the shoes of Nat Wheeler, a fourteen-year-old printer’s apprentice in 1770 Boston. As Nat navigates the city and completes tasks, he encounters a spectrum of people living and working there when tensions mount before the Boston Massacre. Mission 2, which focuses on resistance to slavery, will launch in January 2012.
National History Clearinghouse
Teachinghistory.org provides teaching materials, history content, and best practices.
Teaching History with Technology
This site developed by the Center for Teaching History with Technology focuses very specifically on social studies lesson plans, activities, projects, games, and quizzes that use technology.