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Links to materials and resources for revision of the Social Studies curriculum of the School District of the Chathams
Updated on Dec 15, 10
Created on Dec 09, 10
Category: Schools & Education
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New Jersey Department of Education Materials
The official state NJCCCS and ancillary materials offered by the state
Follow the link to the Primary Source Document Correlations and you'll get a pdf document with links (huh?) with links to national archive resources. Although the links are weaved into the standards to appear in the correct content location, they do appear to be developmentally appropriate.\nActive Citizenship lesson plans ideas are also available
Links to NEAP assessments for Social Studies presented on New Jersey DOE site
Other State Curricula
Social Studies Curricula from other states
Follow link on this page to the Social Studies subset of standards of English Language Arts. Page 60 and 64 of that document have Social Studies standards for reading and writing
Essential Questions
Essential Question collections and examples to spark ideas
Essential Understandings for Social Studies - perhaps useful for design of K-5
Description of essential question and shows how content questions just do not work as essential questions
List of 160 essential questions. Some better than others, but the list is 160 questions long
Maps
Maps and Map tools
Great map showing locations of McDonald's in the United States
Edit and draw directly upon Google Maps
Media and Image creation
Editing tools to create images for lessons or classroom decoration
Make road signs, magazine covers, motivational posters from your photos with this great tech tool.
Shaded block-by-block maps of the United States showing various demographic statistics
From simple "community" lesson plans in elementary school to more projects in high school Sociology or US History II, students should work with maps like this to draw conclusions. It has to be better for them than simply labeling states on a blank map.
26 items | 9 visits
Links to materials and resources for revision of the Social Studies curriculum of the School District of the Chathams
Updated on Dec 15, 10
Created on Dec 09, 10
Category: Schools & Education
URL: