Social Studies

TEACHER RESOURCES

Curriculum Resources for Lesson Planning and Critical Writing and Reading Skills

• Teaching History.org Curriculum resource for teaching history
• Reciprocal Teaching
• Social Studies Skills
• Reading strategies for social studies
• writing in social studies
• strategies for reading comprehension
• Pennsylvania Standards Aligned System
• Reading strategies for struggling learners 
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• Library of Congress

Primary Sources in Social Studies

• Social Studies Central
• Using Primary Sources in History
• Gilder Lehrman
• Primary Source
• Teaching with Documents
• Analyzing Primary Sources
• Document-Based Question Resource Page
• How to write a DBQ
• Exhibit Builder

• education as infinitium
• prezi
• edublogs
• how do I do a screen shot?
• wordle
• online polling
• voki
• blabberize
• free technology resources
• Copyright information
• creative commons licence
• google scholar
• follow me
• the six word memoir
• diigo
• voice thread
• edmondo
• schoology
• Using technology with best practices
• Integrating technology in social studies
• hippocampus digital media 
• using social media in the classroom