The website I came up in my search was from Discovery Education, which many may find familiar from its relation to the Discovery channel. Specifically, the part of the website that is a great resource for social science educators is “Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators”(http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/history/histg.html).
Schrock organizes her resource in a very efficient way:
American History websites (http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/history/hista.html)
General History and Social Studies (http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/history/hista.html)
World and Ancient History section (http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/history/histw.html)
Off these three basic sections, there is an abundance of website links for various topics. It is a safe bet that one will find a website that will be a valuable resource considering the curriculum most of us will be teaching in secondary settings. For example, if I knew I had to teach a unit on Civil Rights, this site would be a useful and efficient way to find various lesson plans and suggestions to make my own lesson planning an easy task. All one would need to do would be to go this website, click on the appropriate tab (this case-American History), and then scroll through the websites to find one which one(s) correlates to whatever one’s subject matter is. One may question the legitimacy of some of the sites linked from Schrock, but from what I clicked through, the resources she and Discovery endorse are valuable websites and should not be passed up. Overall, I would describe this site as a fast, efficient, and valid search engine for subject matter most of us will have to teach on in the future.
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Glad you found my site useful...and, I leave it up to you, the social studies experts, to determine whether the sites meet your needs!
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