Social Studies Web Resources

Lesson Plans

Weekly Political Cartoon Lesson Plan

http://nieonline.com/aaec/cftc.cfm

Teachable Moment Lesson Plans

http://www.teachablemoment.org/high.html

EDSITEment
http://edsitement.neh.gov/

Teaching Tolerance Lesson Plans

http://www.tolerance.org/activities?keys=&level=5&subject=15

Smithsonian Lesson Plans

http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/lesson_plans.html

Reference

Yale’s Avalon Project

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp

Facts on File Databases

http://www.fofweb.com/Subscription/default.asp?BID=7&ItemID

U.S. Census Bureau

http://www.census.gov/

Maps 101
http://www.maps101.com/Application/Index.aspx
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Current Events

Political Cartoons
http://cagle.msnbc.com/politicalcartoons/

Newsmap
http://www.newsmap.jp/#

The Week in Rap - flowcabulary

http://theweekinrap.com/
Pro/con.org
http://www.procon.org/

New York Times’ Upfront Magazine

http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/upfront/

Culture

New York Times’ Lens Blog

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/

Maps

UTA’s Cartographic Connections

http://libraries.uta.edu/ccon/mapSearch.shtm

Mapping History
http://mappinghistory.uoregon.edu/english/index.html

Maps 101
http://www.maps101.com

Google Earth for Educators

http://www.google.com/educators/index.html

Miscellaneous

Tag Galaxy
http://www.taggalaxy.com/

National Archives’ Primary Source Guides

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/

U.S. History

Reading Like a Historian

http://sheg.stanford.edu/?q=node/45

Brown University’s Choices Curriculum

http://choices.edu/resources/detail.php?id=37

Library of Congress Themed Resources

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/

National Archives’ Digital Vaults

http://www.digitalvaults.org/#
National Archives’ Docs Teach
http://docsteach.org/

National Archives ARC Search

http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/

Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/

PBS’ Biography of America

http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/index.html

Duke’s America Votes Collection

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/americavotes/

The American Presidents

http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident

History Matters
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/

Gilder Lehrman
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/modules.php

New York Times’ Interactive Immigration Map

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigration-explorer.html

Project Look Sharp Lesson Plans

http://www.ithaca.edu/looksharp/mcpcweb/

George Mason University’s U.S. History Modules

http://chnm.gmu.edu/exploring/

Animated Atlas: Growth of a Nation

http://www.animatedatlas.com/movie.html

Getting the Message Out: Political Campaigns 1840 – 1860

http://dig.lib.niu.edu/message/index.html

Colonial Williamsburg’s Mapping Colonial America

http://www.history.org/history/museums/maps/mapping_1024.html

The Geography of Slavery – Runaway Advertisements

http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/gos/
Mission US Interactive Revolutionary Era Game
http://www.mission-us.org/

Government

Fact Check
http://www.factcheck.org/

ACLU’s Youth Rights Texas

http://youthrightstx.org/

iCivics
http://www.icivics.org/?redirect

National Archives – Charters of Freedom

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters.html

Texas LRE Games

http://www.texaslre.org/games.html

First Amendment Lesson Plans

http://www.firstamendmentschools.org/resources/lessonplans.aspx

First Amendment Center

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/

Landmark Supreme Court Cases from Street Law

http://www.streetlaw.org/en/landmark.aspx

The 30 Second Candidate

http://www.pbs.org/30secondcandidate/index.html

Living Room Candidate

http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/

On the issues
www.ontheissues.org
Texas History

UTA Library Lesson Plans

http://library.uta.edu/k12/historysLessons/

Living With the Trinity River

http://www.trinityrivertexas.org/

Texas History Portal

http://education.texashistory.unt.edu/lessons/psa/index.html

Handbook of Texas Online

http://www.tshaonline.org/index.html

Texas Beyond History

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/

Teaching Texas
www.teachingtexas.org