Socials Studies Education Resources

California History Teachers Discussion Board This site suggested by a reader is a discussion/ list for history teachers in California (K-12), but teachers from other states may wish to join or find it useful. The list owner is a social studies teacher who felt like they were "swimming upstream" alone, and thought, "Wouldn’t it be great if I had a list to post on where I could get some ideas and maybe help some other folks out?"The list is designed to generate discussion from both elementary and secondary teachers on creative lessons, good presentations, strategies, tips, post-baccalaureate education (aka "going back to school") recommended seminars and conferences, etc.

Faith in Schools is sponsored by the four main churches in Ireland - Anglican, Roman Catholic, Methodist and Presbyterian - and the Belfast Hebrew Community. I am currently involved in looking at how we can implement a program to help students learn social responsibility at my school, this site is timely and provides me with a starting point which will help me develop materials for my program.

The purpose of the site is to support religious studies in schools and to assist in the exploration of the Core Curriculum in Religious Education which was agreed by these four churches and approved by the Department of Education for Northern Ireland An example of the type of classroom activity found on the site:

"Major historical events seldom occur without warning. The foundation for World War I began to be laid as early as the 1870's. Ask the students to develop a timeline from 1870 to 1914 illustrating the minor conflicts and disagreements between European nations that finally resulted in the outbreak of World War I."

The Great Canadian History Page This page was created by a teacher Bob Vavra who teaches Social Studies/History to grade eight to twelve students at Winston High School in Saskatchewan. He states in his introduction to his site "As an educator one of the toughest things I face, is trying to find good resources to use in my classes. As a teacher I want these resources to be entertaining as well as informative. Sometimes these resources are hard to find." So he found a few resources that Social Studies/History teachers can use to help them teach students.

Let's Go Around the World This site "Around the World Web" is an educational, child-friendly and child-safe site which consists of language arts and curriculum-based "learning adventures" focusing on different regions/cultures of the world. Current adventures focus on East Africa and the Amazon rain forest. The site is designed for elementary/middle school aged children and their teachers/parents and it features color photography, illustrated stories, poetry, student art/writing from around the world, music, video, and teacher pages connecting the content to all areas of the curriculum.

Egyptian Ministry of Tourism The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism's Official Site at has a large section covering very early Christian monuments and history sections on the early Christian movement. ST. Catherine's Monastery is particularly interesting, with pictures of Mt. Sinai and several ancient chapel, along with the Burning Bush chapel said to be located on the site of Moses' burning bush. In addition, there is a new section which is still under construction, but expanding, under Special Editions in the antiquities section which specifically covers the christian history in Egypt (along with the less specific information covered in the The Roman and Byzantine Periods under the history section).
My thanks for Sarah for this link and the introduction to it.

Guided Education Tours This site offers teachers a chance to preview and to purchase for a small fee education units developed by other teachers. The units are structured, topical on-line explorations of web sites that are reached by hyper-links, right from the unit text. The units are web pages, not programs. They will work on any system. Students are given activities and knowledge building exercises to perform at each web site. At the end of each unit students tie their learning together in meaningful culminating activities. This site allows you to preview the material and then if you want to save yourself tons of work you can purchase the unit from them. The previews look good. Note: the site is closed on Sundays.
Thanks to Scott Cunningham for this link idea.

The Northeast Georgia Network This site has a wide variety of topics to choose from Weather, Mars, Mission, Current Events, Genealogy, Fun Sites, Trading Post, Teachers Site--This site is for use of teachers and educators in Northeast Georgia and the Carolinas, Career Exploration--This page contains links to Job and Career opportunities on the Internet. This page contains all of the links that the State of Georgia, Department of Education recommends to its Middle and High School Counselors, Newspapers - TV Stations, Real Estate, Northeast GA Yellow Pages, Joke of the Day
My thanks to Mike Hurley for this link idea.

Canadiana -- The Canadian Resources Page Links to everything you wanted to know about Canada. The Contents include

Canada NewsWire Welcome to Canada NewsWire, Canada's first real-time news release database on the Internet. This site is the largest news release database in Canada, with approximately 50,000 news releases accessed daily by professionals in over 75 countries world wide.

CNN Web site provides links, chats and up to the minute breaking news stories in multi media format.

E-News The most comprehensive site about magazines on the Web. You can Find Magazines Quickly! at this site. Type a magazine title in the Magazine Finder Quick Search box and click on the Find It! button.

GovBot Database of Government Web Sites will allow you to search and access over 300,000 US government and military web pages.

The Grassroots Communities is suitable for Social Studies students in grades K-12. GrassRoots Communities@ca is a nationwide competition open to all K-12 schools in Canada. Hosted by Schoolnet, students create a web site about their community and post it on the Internet. This site would be useful for teachers considering an integrated social studies classroom project on their community.

Maclean's Magazine An on-line edition of this magazine with top stories and a Forum and the best picks from previous issues.

Ministry of Education, Skills and Training Examination, Key and Report to Schools Search Page These examinations and key response materials are provided exclusively for the non-profit use of teachers, administrators and students in the B.C. educational system of schools, universities and colleges for study, practice and teaching purposes only. No other use or reproduction in any form or by any means including electronic storage, reproduction, execution or transmission is permitted without the prior written permission of the Ministry of Education, Skills and Training, Province of British Columbia.

Southam NewsLinks to Investor News, Newspapers, Business Communications and other information from this news service organization

State and Local Government on the Net helps to quickly identify US State based resources and indicates last time the state page was updated.

Toronto Globe and Mail Links from this newspaper include: Career Connection News On-line The Top one thousand site on the Web plus much more

Ministry of Education, Skills and Training Examination , Key and Report to Schools Search Page. These examinations and key response materials are provided exclusively for the non-profit use of teachers, administrators and students in the B.C. educational system of schools, universities and colleges for study, practice and teaching purposes only. No other use or reproduction in any form or by any means including electronic storage, reproduction, execution or transmission is permitted without the prior written permission of the Ministry of Education, Skills and Training, Province of British Columbia.

Links of Interest to a Social Studies or Humanities Teacher

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