Links for Teachers
General Links
Learn
North Carolina
http://www.learnnc.org/
is a web resource for teachers that includes a link to the Standard Course of
Study, a lesson plan database, a multi-media resource library, discussion
forums for teachers, an educational links library, and much more. It is
provided free of charge to all public educators who have been trained in North
Carolina. Please note that certain sections of the site are password
protected, but are accessible following training.
History
Matters
http://www.historymatters.gmu.edu/
A project of the American Social History Project/Center for
Media and Learning of the City University of New York and the Center for
History and New Media at George Mason University with funding from the W.K.
Kellogg Foundation, this site offers teaching materials for social studies
educators, including primary sources, assignments, annotated syllabi, and more.
Federal
Resources for Educational Excellence
http://www.ed.gov/free/
This site, put together in response to President Clinton's
April 1997 call for federal agencies to make resources available for
internet-based teaching and learning, includes resources on teaching history as
well as other subjects. In addition, there are comments from teachers
about how they have used these resources in their own classrooms, as well as
opportunities for teachers to develop partnerships with federal agencies to
develop additional web-based resources. Among the Social Studies
resources are on-line documents from the National Archives and Records
Administration, the Library of Congress, the Central Intelligence Agency, the
National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Park Service, the Peace
Corps and more. The social studies resource list is available at: http://www.ed.gov/free/s-social.html
ERIC
Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education
http://www.indiana.edu/~ssdc/eric_chess.htm
This page, housed at the Indiana University, provides
resources for the teaching and learning of social studies. The site
includes a searchable database of materials and a tremendous collection of web
links on various social studies topics (General Social Studies, Current Events,
Civic Education and Government, History, Geography, Economics, Art and Music).
The
Learning Page
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/
From the American Memory program at the Library of Congress,
this page provides resources for educators, lesson plans, and suggestions
for using the considerable resources on the American Memory homepage.
The
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
This page from Fordham University includes links to a vast
array of on-line resources for social studies teachers. Divided by
subject area, the sourcebook includes links to an incredible diversity of
primary sources on a vast array of subjects. You can also connect to
other history sourcebooks through this page.
From
Gutenberg to Gigabytes: A User-Friendly Guide to Internet Pedagogy for Surveys
in U.S. and World History
Gutenberg to Gigabytes
This page, developed from our November 13, 1999 PHE session,
includes links to several Internet resources for Social Studies teachers,
including website designed by the session panelists.
World
History Links
African History and Geography
The Age of Discovery
Medieval Women's History
Russian and Soviet History
Women in Africa
The World Since 1945
Comparative
World Revolutions
United
States History Links
The Age of Discovery
America
in the 1930s
The American Presidency
The Civil Rights Movement
The Great Depression
Native Americans in the Southeast
North Carolina Since the Civil War
Oral History
U.S. Society and Culture in the 1890s
Women in the Progressive Era
Workers in American History
The
Media and American Politics
Do
you know of other good links for social studies teachers? If so, e-mail PHE and
tell us about them.
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