Friday, April 30, 2010

The National Council for the Social Studies

http://www.socialstudies.org/resources

The National Council for the Social Studies website is a great resource for social studies teachers that has many different materials that teachers can use in their classroom from a broad range of topics. The resource section of their main website is a direct link full of many different teaching tools that teachers can implement immediately into a classroom environment.

As you scroll down the main page there are many topics that they have posted up that have links from many different topics such as teaching resources for the State of the Union Address. If you follow this link it gives you two different teaching options describing the lesson that it is giving you and also giving you the link that you can find these lessons.

On the right side of the main page there is a series of links that are very helpful. Some helpful links are “Teaching with Documents” and “Lessons”. This is a listing of things that you can use as an educator. The downfall of this website is that you have to pay money to use most of the resources available. Without membership there is a limited access level. If you can afford this or convince your school that this would be a valuable resource to invest in, this can be a great website to get many different teaching idea, primary documents, and lesson plans.

-Michael Fauerbach

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