American History 102 is a website developed by Stanley Schultz, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which includes brief biographies of historical figures and links to relevant history books and journals.

The official National Council for the Social Studies website designed to provide leadership, service, and support for all social studies educators.

Amerian Memory from Libary of Congress is a wonderful collection of historical photographs.

K-12 Social Studies is a comprehensive website with links to lesson plans.

History/Social Studies is a resource website for K-12 Teachers .

Electronic Texts is a collection of archived material.

Awesome Libraries is a Social Studies webpage that discusses multiple categories ranging from ancient civilizations, economics, holidays, politics and religion and much more on numerous countries.

The Valley of the Shadow is a site that presents lesson plans for Social Studies classes for grades 7 - 12 and paper topics for high school and college US history classes.

Social Studies Sources This page is designed for K-12 social studies teachers and students. It also has information and topics that are useful to pre-service social studies instructors and students. The World Wide Web offers almost unlimited opportunities for social studies education and we hope that this page will benefit both the novice and the experienced Web user.

History and Social Studies for K-12 Teachers The major purpose of this home page is to encourage the use of the World Wide Web as a tool for learning and teaching and to provide some help for K-12 classroom teachers in locating and using the resources of the Internet in the classroom.

Columbia Education Center is a good resource of lesson plans (k-12).

Academy Curricular Exchange This site offers Social Studies mini-lesson plans and curriculum for elementary school grades (K-5).

Academy Curricular Exchange This site offers Social Studies mini-lesson plans and curriculum for intermediate school grades (6-8).

Academy Curricular Exchange This site offers Social Studies mini-lesson plans and curriculum for high school grades (9-12).

Kidport site index for social studies lessons.

A Newsweek Magazine website

Discovery Education

New York Times Newspaper

CNN (Cable News Network)

The History Channel website

USA Today

Washington Post

C-SPAN.org

NC Public School Social Studies Curriculum This site lists the standard course of study for K-12 social studies curriculum and content for North Carolina.

 

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updated 5/23/09