- Region XIII Education Service Center
Links for Social Studies collected and recommended by Region XIII Education Service Center
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- SECRETS OF THE DEAD . Cases Archive | PBS for JAMESTOWN scrool down
Crime Scene Investigations Meet History, This site provides multiple online interactive lessons that explore the mysteries of historical deaths, for example the deaths in Jamestown. See lessons with team jigsaw applications to explore conflicting theories.
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- Social Studies for Kids
Search this site for free resources for kids learning social studies. It includes lesson plans with online links to multiple resources related to the topic. This resource can provide lower reading levels for older learners.
Social Studies for Kids is a site with articles, subjects, and tons of links for all subjects of social studies, with a focus on what kids and their teachers/parents are learning.
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- Social Studies--Teaching Toward Lasting Understanding: Terry Robinson
Part of the NCA Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement Journal of School Improvement, Volume 4, Issue 1, Spring 2003 Social Studies--Teaching Toward Lasting Understanding Part of the NCA Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement Journal of School Improvement, Volume 4, Issue 1, Spring 2003 In this article Terry Robinson describes her journey toward teaching important understandings.
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- TeAch-nology.com
Worksheets, Lesson Plans, Teaching Tips, Teacher Resources, and Rubrics. We provide free and easy to use resources for teachers dedicated to improving the education of today's generation of students.
Teach-nology.com offers teachers FREE access to thousands of teacher resources, lesson plans, and rubrics.
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- Teachers: Content Literacy
Literacy Skills for the Social Studies Classroom The following sites feature information and strategies for helping students develop the reading and writing skills needed for success in the social studies classroom.
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- Teachers: Content Literacy
The Reading section provides an introduction to why reading is important in the content areas and information on strategic reading. Choose from the links below to access classroom applications for the following reading techniques:
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- Teachers: Content Literacy
In this section of Literacy Matters, we organize the Sites That Matter under two categories: writing to learn and writing to demonstrate knowledge.
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- Teachers' Domain: Inspiring Middle School Literacy (video)
These self-paced classroom activities are designed to enhance the literacy skills of struggling readers in grades 5–8. Each uses videos, interactive activities, note-taking, reading, and writing to present students with an engaging science or history topic.
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- Texas Social Studies Supervisors Association
TSSSA promotes the common interest of social studies supervisors in curriculum, instruction, assessment, materials, research, and teacher training. This site is designed to provide professional social studies leaders with information, resources, and ideas for enhancing the education and performance of students.
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- The American Immigration Law Foundation
Links to Immigration Policy Center, Legal Action Center, Curriculum Center, Exchange Program, Public Ed. etc.
The American Immigration Law Foundation works to increase public understanding of U.S. immigration law through litigation support and public education about the contributions of immigrants to America.
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- The Center for Teaching History with Techology
The Center for Teaching History with Technology aims to help K-12 history and social studies teachers incorporate technology effectively into their courses.
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- The Oregon Trail
This interactive Oregon Trail Map shows how, where and why pioneers travelled from Missouri to Oregon in 1843. There are graphics for each major stopping point along the trail, along with interesting facts about the various locations and people. The writing is limited and focused in a way that should not be overwhelming for ESL students. Rec. by John Cronfel.
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- The Responsive Classroom Brochure
The Responsive Classroom is an approach to elementary teaching that emphasizes social, emotional, and academic growth in a strong and safe school community. This approach for developing school community has strong research support.
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- The U.S.-Mexican War . Interactive Timeline | PBS
This interactive Mexican History Timeline has pictures and videos displaying critical events from 1519 to 2000. The main focus, however, is the key events of the Mexican-American War. It is in both English and Spanish. This is a PBS website that is very professional and loaded with resources. Each event on the timeline also has pop up information boxes that provide concise information about the event.Rec. by John Cronfel
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- THOMAS (Library of Congress)
This website is from the Library of Congress and gives legislative information, in the spirit of Thomas Jefferson. Under “Current Activity” students can read what happened recently in Congress or what is on the house floor at the moment. Under “Learn” students can find out about the Supreme Court, the legislative process, the Declaration of Independence, and the U.S. Constitution. There is a section for teachers with classroom activities and lesson plans. Rec. by Sharon Siciak
The Library of Congress THOMAS site is the source for federal legislative information. THOMAS provides several options for finding bills, resolutions, and legislative histories from 1973 to the present. Legislative information can be searched across multiple Congresses. THOMAS is also the source for presidential nominations, treaties, committee reports, legislative resources f
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- Virginia Studies: Ready Resources for the Classroom (Social Studies)
Complete Curriculum Framework for Social Studies: Includes standards, essential understandings, essential questions, essential knowledge and essesntial skills
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- Virtual Field Trips Home
The virtual field trips here at Tramline were developed with the goal of making the best use of the web in the classroom. These annotated trips take students to some of the best web sites on each trip subject. We have a Trailhead (Intro) and Teacher's Resource that set the stage for most of our trips. The TourMaker field trips format makes learning fun, and makes using the Internet in the classroom simple, efficient and focused. You will find virtual field trips on science, literature, social studies, and other topics. Rec. by Annie Kane
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- Vocabulary A-Z
Vocabulary Lists, Vocabulary Lesson Plans, Vocabulary Worksheets This site was recommended by an ESL teacher who attended a workshop. The site is apart of the a-z.com family and has very comprehensive lists of ACADEMIC LANGUAGE CONTENT WORDS divided by tier. Parts of this website service is by subscription, but it is minimal. Especially if more than one teacher can use it! Randy Kalal, Mattoon, Il District ESL Instructor
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- Constitutional Rights Foundation--Service Learning Network (82)
Information about Constitutional Rights Foundation one of the leading civic education groups in the United States
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