Universal Resources to Support Social Studies Instruction

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General Resources

Database of K-12 Resources

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CarolinaK12 offers lesson plans and activities aligned with
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the NC Standards. The website allows for easy access to
lesson plans that are separated by grade level and
ThinkCERCA offers scaffolded writing assignments for all
content. The CarolinaK12 website also offers navigation
core subject areas. You have full access to the site through
advice to make finding aligned lessons even easier.
your OCS Google credentials.
C3 Teachers is an organization that offers insight on
inquiry in the classroom. Specifically, the C3 Generator
allows social studies educators from all over the
country to create and share their own inquiries. Browse
through the various inquiries by accessing the state
hub. These will provide inquiries for NC teachers
aligned with NC standards.

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Celebrate North Carolina Courts has the goal of raising
awareness about the judicial branch in NC. The website
offers a variety of resources for social studies teachers to
focus on civics. The website includes presentations,
videos, activities, and external resources. (Middle School
Resource)
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Digital History Reader offers module like courses for upper
high school students. The courses are designed as survey
courses and have two general content areas. Each module
lists objectives and historical questions.
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has created
a webpage specifically for teachers. The Carolina
Navigators provides lesson plans and materials for social
studies teachers in a variety of areas. External
organizations and resources are listed, as well as
technological platforms and lesson plans based on grade
level and geographic region.
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Engage NY – This site offers information on inquiry and
actual inquiries designed by teachers. The inquiries are
broken up by grade level and aligned with NYS standards.
Please be sure to review inquiries and standards before
utilizing them in your classroom. Keep in mind that you can
modify the inquiries to meet your classroom
needs/standards/objectives. (Elementary School Resource)
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Edsitement offers engaging lesson plans and student
activities. Teachers are able to select from a dense
database that separates lesson plans by content area and
grade level. Summer institutes and training for teachers are
also provided.
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USA gov – This website offers government sponsored
lesson plans for grades 3 through 12. The lessons vary in
content and grade, but offer a great opportunity for social
studies teachers to teach content that applies to other
content areas. (Elementary School Resource)
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The DBQ Project offers social studies teachers the
opportunity to create and share DBQs used in their
classrooms. They also provide professional
development to teachers to refine their skills.
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The EPA provides many resources to help teachers.
Lesson plans, homework assignments, and projects for
students to complete are listed on the website. They
allow students to learn about the environment and
make informed decisions.
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United States Mint offers a variety of lesson plans for
all grade levels and content areas. On this website
social studies teachers are able to access lesson plans
that focus on a variety of topics that relate to the US
mint; popular symbols, historical events, national parks,
etc.

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Facing Ourselves and History offers a wide array of
resources for educators. Social studies teachers are able to
browse lesson plans, teaching materials, and videos.
Teachers can also learn new teaching approaches under
the ‘Explore Our Teaching Strategies’ that help build
students critical thinking skills and civic discussion.
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Icivics – This source has a plethora of things to utilize in your
classroom. It offers specific curriculum units and lesson plans for
a variety of content topics for middle school and high school. In
addition to content appropriate lesson plans the website
provides engaging games for students to use.
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National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) – This professional
organization provides a plethora of information for the practicing
social studies teacher. Joining allows access to contemporary
publications guiding social studies, professional learning
opportunities, and the option to sign up for the annual
conference.
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The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History offers a
collection of resources, online exhibitions, lesson plans,
programs, and history related events. The website is
continually updated to provide social studies teachers with
a multitude of contemporary resources.
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The library of congress offers a multitude of opportunities for
social studies teachers. Teachers can access primary source
documents, professional development opportunities, webinars,
workshops, and classroom activities.
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The National Constitution Center has created a website with
classroom learning activities. The resources include an interactive
version of the constitution, videos, and lesson plans designed for
all K-12 social studies levels.
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Historical Scene Investigation works with the College of
William & Mary, University of Kentucky, and the Library
of Congress to create cases based on inquiry. Teachers
and students are able to view case files from different
viewpoints. Students examine the historical documents
to complete the inquiries.
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The National Archives provide numerous documents for
social studies teachers. Lesson plans, professional
development opportunities, etc. are all provided on the
website.
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Teaching Tolerance offers a variety of resources and
classroom activities for social studies. Further, webinars and
professional development are available for teachers.
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Stanford offers some free resources in the form of video. The
videos cover contemporary issues and historical events. Some
videos come with question guides to foster classroom discussion.
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Smithsonian Museum offers a learning lab collection. Social
studies teachers are able to access a variety of images and
historical documents. These can be used to develop inquiries, or
classroom activities based around image analysis or literacy. The
collections on the web page mention appropriate grade levels.
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Newsela is a database of texts. The database provides
social studies teachers with the opportunity to search for
content based texts. The texts come with comprehension
questions and provide a lexile score. The lexile score
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Stanford provides History Assessments of Thinking (HATs) and
Civic Online Reasoning Assessments.The Stanford History
Education Group offers six pages of lessons that cover different
historical events or topics. The lessons provide materials for
lessons.
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The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction has created
an extensive list of resources for social studies teachers to use in
their classrooms. Resources are broken up by grade level, content,
and teaching approaches. For example, the links to search in are
elementary resources, middle grades resources, high school
resources, ‘Founding Principles’ resources, concept based
curriculum resources, inquiry based resources, disciplinary literacy
in SS resources, personal financial literacy resources, building rigor
in SS resources, technology resources for teaching, global
education resources, veterans history month, constitution day
resources, and memorial day resources.
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The Choices Program from Brown University has long
offered lessons that feature high level thinking skills and
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Everfi provides sources for many content areas. The resources
most aligned to social studies resources deal with financial
planning.
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The North Carolina Council on Economic Education offers
academic programs/competitions for North Carolina
students. The webpage currently lists five distinct
programs/competitions for various grade levels; Stock Market
Game, Capitol Challenge, InvestWrite, Economics Challenge,
and NC Personal Finance Challenge. Feel free to browse to
meet classroom needs!
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The National History Education Clearinghouse provides a
variety of resources for teachers. They are separated by K-2
Resources, 3-5 Resources, and Classroom Tools. These
resources provide teachers a way to develop lesson plans
using different approaches like teaching with film, examining
primary resources, historical thinking, etc.
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promote literacy in their classrooms!
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cK-12 is a collaborative website that presents teachers and
students with units of study and lesson plans for all
subjects including Social Studies
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Civic Action Project - This inquiry leads students through
an investigation of how they can make an impact on their
community. By investigating the compelling question,
students examine an issue that is important to them,
assess what can be done to help with the issue, plan ways
they can take action on their issue, and evaluate potential
challenges. By completing this inquiry, students begin to
understand ways in which they can be citizens and take
informed action in meaningful ways. (Middle and High
School Resource)
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This resource out of New York supports Global and World
History and US History. This curriculum resource is
motivate student engagement by immersing students and
teachers into historical perspectives. Articles and lesson
plans can be accessed through their website
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All Sides is a balanced media site seeking to provide students with History games for students that trace characters and
an opportunity to explore current issues by identifying media bias perspectives in different periods in US History.
in current news stories.
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Free open world history resource with lessons that are
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Lessons are organized by topic and are easily searchable in
the database. New York State Archives Partnership Trust -
Graphic Organizers
This resource is perfect if you are looking for the
perfect graphic organizer to align to your well crafted
social studies lesson.
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project supported by
Fordham University is a collection of public domain,
The World Digital Library is supported by the Library of
copy permitted history historical texts presented
Congress and is a treasure trove of primary source
cleanly without advertisements. These are formatted
materials, timelines and interactive maps that can support
specifically for educational use. While these are
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The History Project at UC Irvine supports high school
curriculum with a series of lessons that cover a wide
variety of topics from Democratic Revolutions to
Geopolitics. These are vetted lesson plans intended to
support social studies instruction K-12.
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From virtual field trips to field experiences the National Parks
Service provides a plethora of resources to practicing teachers.
Materials and activities connect to all content areas and grade
levels, just use the search engine to access them.
social studies instruction K-12. primarily appropriate for high school courses, there are
texts that can support upper elementary and middle
school coursework as well.
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The US Holocaust Memorial Museaum has created a series
of lessons and materials to support the teaching of Who knew the CIA would be a great source for
information about the world for the average classroom
genocide and the Holocaust. They also provide excellent
teacher? The CIA’s World Factbook is one of the US
professional development opportunities for teachers.
Government’s most commonly accessed publications
and is filled with updated, accurate factual information
about nations, governments, environmental factors, etc
and is heavily utilized by students during the school
year.
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StuySync serves as our core ELA curriculum for grades 6-10. While A broad bipartisan majority of Americans agree
leveraging technology and media to engage and inspire students
for students to create a better society, schools need to
in their academic pursuits, StudySync provides educators with an
provide a thorough, accurate, and fact-based history
easy-to-use platform to deliver adaptable, interactive, and
equitable learning solutions. education and teach students to reject racism and respect
the equal value of every person.
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Much of the content presented in An Indigenous Peoples’
History of the United States for Young People represents
perspectives not often addressed in young adult literature.
Some of the histories might be traumatic for young people
encountering it for the first time. Help prepare young
students to engage with the content, using principles of
trauma-informed critical pedagogy.
INSTITUTE ON RELIGION
AND CIVIC VALUES (IRCV)
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Carolina K-12 (formerly the NC Civic Education
Consortium) is a program of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Carolina
Public Humanities and works to extend the resources of
the University to North Carolina’s K-12 educators. We
offer quality professional development programs which
include access to scholars on key topics, innovative
lesson plans, and interactive pedagogical training.
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Resources: National Geographic Texts
1001 Inventions
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Culturally Responsive
Instructional Resources for
Teaching American Indians
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Cultural competence is the ability to successfully teach students who
come from cultures other than our own. It entails developing certain
personal and interpersonal awareness and sensitivities, developing
certain bodies of cultural knowledge, and mastering a set of skills,
that, taken together, underlie effective cross-cultural teaching (Diller
and Moule, 2005). There are four basic cultural competence skill
areas:
● Valuing diversity
● Being culturally self-aware
● Understanding the dynamics of cultural interactions
● Institutionalizing cultural knowledge and diversity (King, et
al., 2007)
Answers to Frequently Asked
Questions About Islam and Muslim
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The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports
the teaching of people’s history in middle and high
school classrooms across the country. Based on
the lens of history highlighted in Howard Zinn’s
best-selling book A People’s History of the United
States, the website offers free, downloadable
lessons and articles organized by theme, time
period, and reading level.
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Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital
publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts,
images, and audio files related to southern history, literature,
Designed for high school and college
and culture. Currently DocSouth includes sixteen thematic teachers and students,
collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral
history interviews, and songs. History Matters serves as a gateway
to web resources and offers other
useful materials for teaching U.S.
history.
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Everything you need to teach personal finance.
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