Karen Vitek's List: Social Studies Resources

"Discover exhibits and collections from museums and archives all around the world."

"TimelineJS can pull in media from different sources. It has built in support for:

Twitter, Flickr, Google Maps, YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Wikipedia, SoundCloud and more media types in the future.

Creating one is as easy as filling in a Google spreadsheet or as detailed as JSON."

"'Under His Hat: Discovering Lincoln's Story from Primary Sources' is the home of the Lincoln Collection Digitization Project, a thematic online-education resource about the United States' 16th President, Abraham Lincoln.
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"Welcome to the Digital Classroom, developed by Newseum Education

The Newseum's award-winning videos and resources bring news literacy, journalism and history to life for students."

"Each AIC Lesson is built around a framing question, an essential understanding, and a single primary resource or a small manageable set of resources. A background note illuminates and contextualizes the material and another note offers teaching advice. Each Lesson culminates with key passages and analytical questions through which teachers can lead students to the essential understanding, and each concludes with a follow-up assessment. AIC Lessons are web-based and optimized for mobile devices."

"Children & Youth in History is a world history resource that provides teachers and students with access to sources about young people from the past to the present."

" Welcome to The American Promise, a Web site devoted to helping teachers, professors and educators bring democracy to life in their classrooms. This site is a supplement to the videos and teaching guide produced for the original public television series."

"Use this search to access more than 2,000 resources. Enter a word or phrase in quotes for best results.

Use this search to find Smithsonian educational resources that are aligned to national, common core, or state standards."

The Center provides leadership in education at the Smithsonian through hosting www.SmithsonianEducation.org, the gateway to the institution’s educational resources and programs, publishing Smithsonian in Your Classroom, a journal for elementary and middle school educators, offering research opportunities and resources to the museum community, and conducting professional development programs for educators at all levels. The Center has created a long-term alliance with state education officials that has become the basis for several collaborative teacher training and resource development projects in a wide range of subjects. The Center also manages pan-institutional functions such as internships, heritage month celebrations, school tour programming, and the collection and analysis of data on Smithsonian education programs.

"Welcome to HistoryBuff.com, a nonprofit organization devoted to providing FREE primary souce material for students, teachers, and historybuffs. This site focuses primarily on HOW news of major, and not so major, events in American history were reported in newspapers of the time. In addition, there is information about the technology used to produce newspapers over the past 400 years. Our latest addition is panoramas of historic sites in America.
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There is a GeoBee Challenge Game and additional quizzes and games for geography.

"Civics and Economics Online Resources and Games"

Western Reserve Public Media’s program Constitution Challenge was created by a team of teachers. It is directed at Grades 5 and 8 and is keyed to both social studies and language arts standards for those grades. The format of the program is a game show, with both students and “the man on the street” trying to answer questions. This format is carried through on the Web site, with PowerPoint games available on Constitution topics. There is also a hotlist of sites available to assist students with projects from the lesson plans.

"The tables below share some great resources we've found for using games to teach social study skills to middle school age students. If you have similar games to share, add them in the "comments" section on the bottom of this page."

"About Teachinghistory.org

Teachinghistory.org is designed to help K–12 history teachers access resources and materials to improve U.S. history education in the classroom. With funding from the U.S. Department of Education, the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) has created Teachinghistory.org with the goal of making history content, teaching strategies, resources, and research accessible"

Mission US is a multimedia project that immerses players in U.S. history content through free interactive games.

"Search the Web through Timelines
(and surprise yourself with what you find)"

"The item students were looking for is the Library’s Primary Source Analysis Tool, a graphic organizer that helps students closely examine and analyze any kind of primary source – whether it be a photo, map, movie, manuscript, or sound recording – and record their responses in a way that helps them build understanding. “I have actually had students request this tool…” says Greeley fifth-grade teacher Vicki Heisler, who recommends the Primary Source Analysis Tool when asked what advice she would give to teachers who have never tried teaching with primary sources. “Primary sources are great for developing students’ critical thinking and 21st century skills,” she adds."