Teacher Tools

History Lessons

Discovery Education- Great lesson plan ideas on US History.
Smithsonian Education- Lesson plan ideas for US and World History, for all grade levels.
Best of History Websites- A nicely laid out website with resources on all types of history, including maps, games and further research.

Sociology Lessons

Lesson Planet- A great search engine for teachers, with a lot of information on Sociology Lesson Plans.
Point of View- Documentaries from the PBS show POV with lesson plans for use in the classroom.
Library of Congress- Great links to documents and recently published magazines and articles on Sociology.

Economics Lessons

James Madison University- High school lesson plans for Economics classes.
Econedlink- Economic and personal finance resources for K-12.
Teaching Economics- High school economics lessons with everything needed to meet NCEE standards.

Art History Lessons

Dick Blick- Fantastic website for art teachers and art history techers, 100's of possible lesson plans for 9-12th grades.
Incredible Art Department- This website contains lesson plans, games, quizes and samples.
Bright Hub Education-Lesson plans and ideas from other teachers.

Search Sites for Students

Sweet Search Sweet Search is a search engine that has been researched and reviews by teachers, librarians and other research experts. There are over 35,000 websites that have been reviewed by Sweet Search.
KidRex- is a child friendly, filtered search engine powered by Google.
refseek- is an academic search engine, that has gotten rid of advertisements and places academic webpages among the top results when searching.
Famhoo- Another family friendly search engine that filters results but pulls from the bigger search engines like AOL and Yahoo.
Wolfram Alpha- A mathematical search engine used for finding answers when dealing with numbers.
Google Scholar- This search engine, run by Google, will search scholarly journals, Supreme Court documents and patent records.
Ask Kids- The kid friendly version of Ask.com. The site is divided into five categories, School House, movies, games, images, and video. Under the School House link kids can find helpful links and topics for the searched phrases.

Video Sites:

Social Studies Free Video Clips- A great collection of introductory video's for k-12.
PBS Teacher- This site has lesson plans pre-made with videos and slide shows, better for higher level social studies classes.
C-SPAN Video Archive- Fantastic site for social studies educators. C-Span has a catalog going back 25 years plus, of political speeches, Senatorial and Congressional discussions on the floor and presidential speeches.

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