Educator Resources

Social Studies Curriculum Links


The African-American Mosaic 
  http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html  

African Studies Association   
  http://www.africanstudies.org/ 

American Folklore
  http://www.americanfolklore.net/    

American Indian History and Culture - Smithsonian Institution
http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/History_and_Culture/AmericanIndian_History.htm
NEW! Haudenosaunee Guide for Educators- Smithsonian Institution
http://www.nmai.si.edu/subpage.cfm?subpage=education&second=pub

American Institute for History
   http://www.americaninstituteforhistory.org/

The American Social History Project
   http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/teaching.html
   
Asian-Nation: The Landscape of Asian American
  http://www.asian-nation.org/index.shtml

Bibliography on North American Indians - Smithsonian Institution
   http://anthropology.si.edu/outreach/indbibl/

Big Apple History
  http://pbskids.org/bigapplehistory

Bill of Rights Institute
  http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/

Black History Quest
  http://blackquest.com/link.htm

The Brooklyn Historical Society
  http://www.brooklynhistory.org/default/index.html

The Children's Museum of Manhattan
  http://www.cmom.org/

The Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education
  http://www.sustainabilityed.org/

Congress in the Classroom
   http://www.dirksencenter.org/print_programs_CongressClassroom.htm

The Constitution Works
   http://www.theconstitutionworks.org/

Document Based Questions
  http://www.edteck.com/dbq/testing/dbq.htm

Educators for Social Responsibility
  http://www.esrmetro.org/

El Museo del Barrio
  http://www.elmuseo.org/

Evaluating Eyewitness Reports
  http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=281

Facing History and Ourselves
  http://www.facinghistory.org/resources/lessons_units

Flushing Remonstrance Curriculum
 http://schools.nycenet.edu/offices/teachlearn/ela/Flushing_Remon.pdf
Foreign Policy Association's Great Decisions Program
http://www.greatdecisions.org

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
  http://www.gilderlehrman.org/

The Gotham Center
  http://www.gothamcenter.org/

Hispanic-America -USA
  http://www.neta.com/~1stbooks/

Historic Waterways Adventure Online Curriculum
  http://samandmary.org/hwaoc/

The History Channel
  http://www.historychannel.com/

History Matters: Making sense of primary sources
  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/makesense/

The History Net
  http://www.thehistorynet.com/
Icivics.com
http://www.icivics.com

The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation
  http://www.raoulwallenberg.net/?en/education/

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators: Social Studies and US History
  http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/history/histg.html

Latino Museums and Museums with Latino Collections
  http://latino.si.edu/collections/collections_LatinoMuseumResources.htm

Looking at student work
  http://www.lasw.org/

Metropolitan Museum of Art
  http://www.metmuseum.org/

Museum of the City of New York
  http://www.mcny.org/

National Center for History in Schools
  http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/

NCSS Notable Tradebooks Booklist: An annotated bibliography
  http://www.socialstudies.org/resources/notable/

NCSS- Resources
  http://www.socialstudies.org/resources

New-York Historical Society
  https://www.nyhistory.org/web/

New York History Net
  http://www.nyhistory.com/

New York State Assembly - Teacher Page
  http://assembly.state.ny.us/kids/

Primary Source Materials & Document Based Questions
  http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listdocumentpa.html

Project Explorer
  http://projectexplorer.org/

Smithsonian Institute
  http://www.si.edu/

Social Studies reference sites
  http://www.ket.org/Education/IN/socstudies.htm

Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance
  http://www.splcenter.org/center/tt/teach.jsp

Teachers Domain
  http://www.teachersdomain.org/special/adlit/adlit.content.soc/

TeachersNetwork
   http://teachersnetwork.org/TeachNet/NewYork/social_studies.cfm

Teaching with Documents
  http://www.edteck.com/dbq/index.htm

The Tenement Museum
  http://www.tenement.org/

Using DBQs in the Classroom
  http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/dbq/ssindex.html

WNET Ed Online
  http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/

Yorkers- Document Based Questions (New York State)
  http://www.yorkers.org/dbq.htm