Social Studies 6-12 Resource Links
- DPISD Social Studies Curriculum
- Scope and sequence and TEKS for the district's social studies classes.
- Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
- This is a long list of web pages from all curriculum areas. There is a large section on Social Studies.
- NCSS Online
- National Council for the Social Studies
- Center for the American
Idea
- Training (free!) and resources for the teaching of social studies and
literature
- National Geographic Civil War Map Machine
- Interactive maps of over 5,200 U.S. Civil War battlefields and historic sites and more.
- Grant-Lee Surrender Terms
- The Grant-Lee surrender terms, from Civil War Home.
- A Soldier's Recollections: Leaves from the Diary of a Young Confederate
- Primary source text of the experiences of Randolph H. McKim.
- Poetry and Music of the War Between the States
- Union poetry, Confederate poetry, and music and lyrics to popular songs.
- History/Social
Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers
- The most comprehensive annotated list of social studies links
available - by subject.
- Big
Chalk.Com
- Very useful site for social studies teachers and students
- user-friendly resources
- Marcopolo Internet Content
for the Classroom
- Reviewed lessons and ideas for k-12. Searchable by grade,
subject area, and topic.
- Filamentality
- Create your own online lessons - from the simple to the
complex
- Texas Education Agency
- A must visit for any information related to state programs
and requirements
- Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills
- The TEKS online, for all subject areas
- Social Studies Center
- A new and growing site with excellent information for
implementing the TEKS
- History Alive!
- Web site of the Teachers' Curriculum Institute
- Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
- Searchable list of educational sites available through
the federal government
- Statistics
- Interactive site for teaching students about polling
and samples
- The Graphic Organizer
- All types of Graphic Organizers and ideas for using them
- EdHelper Graphic
Organizers
- Generate your own organizers/webs
- Decisions, Decisions Online
- Online versions of Decisions, Decisions, different from
the software versions
- History
Now, an Online Journal
- Quarterly Journal on American historical topics, with lessons
and ideas for k-12.
- Online
Power Points
- Already created power points (including a jeopardy game template)
ready to use for your classroom.
- Census Bureau Home Page
- The best site for U.S. demographic data - also great
for U.S. economic indicators Geography and World History
- NationalAtlas.Gov
- The updated National Atlas provides national-scale maps and
user-created maps
- Map Collections: 1500-2002
- Very large collection of historic maps from the Library
of Congress
- The World
Factbook
- Detailed data on all the world's countries - maps of
each country and region
- MapQuest
- Street directions and maps to anywhere in the U.S. and
much of the world
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Tiger Map Service Experimental Browser
- Make maps of any U.S. location - can enter location or
coordinates
- China on the Web
- A super collection of Internet sites on China from Filamentality
- K-12 Geographic Resources
- Very good set of geography links organized by the National
Geography Standards
- Library of Congress Country
Studies
- Extensive information on 85 countries
- Infonation
- Outstanding new U.N. site - compare demographic data
among countries (a great place to generate graphs for students to study)!
- Nations of the World
- Like World Factbook - large quantities of data on the world's
countries – maps
- National Geographic Society
- Some excellent lessons in the "Geography Education" section
- WorldClimate
- Average temperatures for each month for all the countries
of the world
- United Nations Population Information Network
(POPIN)
- Excellent data on population and population trends
- Altapedia Online
- Physical and political maps from all over the world
- Blank and
Outline Maps
- Links to numerous sites for outline maps from About.com
- College Board Online Home Page
- AP publications, course and exam information, institute
sites and dates
- Social
Studies Center TAKS Review Lessons
- Lesson plan ideas organized by TEK to review for the 8 th grade TAKS test
(or for 10 th and 11 th to review 8 th grade TEKS).
- Voices of Youth
- Unicef site which offers activities on issues that affect
the lives of children worldwide
- Texas Beyond History
- A virtual museum of Texas history
- Texas
Essential Knowledge and Skills
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- TAKS
Information Booklets
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- TAKS
Study Guides
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- Social
Studies TAKS Blueprints
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- Released
TAAS and TAKS Exams
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- The Social Studies Center
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- New York Regents Tests
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- Massachusetts State
Tests
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