81. Ideas For Teaching About Different Countries And Cultures - Social Studies Lesso Different Countries and Cultures. Visit Other Click to Vote For us! Countries and Cultures By Kelly Radel Primary Subject - social studies Secondary Subjects http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SSLAOCICountriesandCulturesIdeas18.htm

Features: Special Features: Improve Reading Efficient Reading Teaching Jobs Teacher Magazines Site Information: EdScope Sites: Join Newsletter: Search This Site: Vote For Us: @ SitesForTeachers @ Teach-nology Ideas for Teaching about Different Countries and Cultures Visit Other About Search Forums Newsletter ... Tell-A-Friend Printable Version for your convenience! Title - Ideas for Teaching about Different Countries and Cultures By - Kelly Radel Primary Subject - Social Studies Secondary Subjects - Language Arts, Other, Computers / Internet Grade Level - 1-8 Ideas for Teaching about Different Countries and Cultures: Give students the opportunity to learn firsthand about other cultures using pen pals. Check out www.surfnetkids.com/penpals.htm to learn more about using pen pals within your classroom. Read picture books about different cultures and compare their cultures to your own. Students can write, journal or discuss similarities and differences. Here are some books that might be useful: Children from Australia to Zimbabwe: A Photographic Journey Around the World by Maya Ajmera, Anna Rhesa Versola, Marian Wright Edelman

82. Let's Learn To Use A Map Social Studies Lesson Plan, Thematic Unit, Activity, Wo Instructional Procedures (2 min.) 1 T Please take out your social studies books. Turn about. Let us read on pages 86 and 87 to find out. http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SSLearnToUseAMap12.htm

Features: Special Features: Improve Reading Efficient Reading Teaching Jobs Teacher Magazines Site Information: EdScope Sites: Join Newsletter: Search This Site: Vote For Us: @ SitesForTeachers @ Teach-nology Let's Learn to Use a Map Visit Other About Search Forums Newsletter ... Tell-A-Friend Printable Version for your convenience! Title - Let's Learn to Use a Map By - Jaimie Lavergne Subject - Social Studies Grade Level - 1st-2nd Pre-Instructional Phase Audience: My classroom is at the first grade level. There are 25 students who are of average or high intelligence. Their ages range from 8-9. They sit in 5 straight rows; each row contains 5 desks. The rows are titled Monday through Friday for organizational purposes. The students do have many differences in learning however; the biggest differences are aural, visual, and kinesthetic learners. Objectives: 1. The students will be able to recognize a map. 2. The students will be able to locate places on a map. 3. The students will be able to define a map as a picture of a place. Standards: State: 1. Geography: The World in Spatial Terms (1)- Identifying and describing the characteristics and uses of geographic representations, such as maps, globes, graphs, diagrams, photographs, and satellite-produced images.

83. Social Studies In Action: Applying Themes And Disciplines With so much to teach and so little time to teach it, organizing a social studies curriculum can be a daunting task. This session http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/socialstudies/session4/

Other Workshop Sessions With so much to teach and so little time to teach it, organizing a social studies curriculum can be a daunting task. This session addresses the question: How do we decide what to teach? It is designed to help teachers use the NCSS themes and related academic disciplines as building blocks for the social studies curriculum, and to make teaching more comprehensive. To help you improve your lesson planning, in this session you will: Explore the themes and disciplines central to social studies. Learn how lessons can be organized around themes and disciplines. Analyze lessons in terms of the themes and disciplines they cover. Apply this discipline-based thematic approach to your own lesson planning. View this video==> Learning Goals At the end of this session you will be able to: Identify themes and disciplines in social studies. Identify theme-based concepts and strategies used to teach them. Apply content and methodology to your own teaching. Engage Session 4 Engage Explore Explain Apply ... Site Map The Annenberg/CPB Channel is produced by Annenberg/CPB with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

84. Social Studies School Service Search Our Catalog Welcome to social studies School Service serving the educational community for 35 years! USING INTERNET PRIMARY SOURCES TO teach CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS IN http://www.socialstudies.com/c/@0/Pages/product.html?record@TF32836 af@ep

85. Social Studies School Service Search Our Catalog Welcome to social studies School Service serving the educational community for 35 years! INTERNET SCAVENGER HUNTS FOR THE TOPICS YOU teach StepBy-Step http://www.socialstudies.com/c/@0/Pages/product.html?record@TF33013 af@ep

86. Great Picture Books To Teach Social Studies, 4–6 Great Picture Books to teach social studies, 4–6. By Tarry Lindquist. To kindle my students interest in social studies, I launch http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/instructor/social98a.htm

87. Great Picture Books To Teach Social Studies, K–3 Great Picture Books to teach social studies, K–3. By Terry Lindquist. To kindle my students interest in social studies, I launch http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/instructor/social98b.htm

88. Classroom Lesson Plans: Helping Teachers Teach History an annotated guide to 500 us history sites in collaboration with the American social History Project whose purpose is to research, study, teach, support, and http://hnn.us/articles/875.html

donations archives newsletter contact ... FAQ''s June 12, 2004 Text Size: A A A Departments Breaking News Features HNN Blogs Hot Topics ... Log In Teacher's Lounge Archives Classroom Lesson Plans: Helping Teachers Teach History Below are links to sites specifically designed to help teachers use the Internet in designing courses in history. Please feel free to send us other links we should post. Just drop an email to the editor. Note: Descriptions of the sites are taken from the sites themselves. THE SYLLABUS FINDER The Syllabus Finder : This site, run by George Mason University's Center for History and New Media, features an automated search tool that locates relevant syllabi on any topic. The Syllabus Finder scans the largest database of history syllabiover 11,000 and growing dailyin combination with a powerful Google-based search of thousands of others on the web. You can compare courses at different universities, see how widely assigned a specific book is, or use it to plan your own course. (Authors: You can use it to find out how widely assigned your own book is.) FOR K-12 TEACHERS The New York Times Learning Network: This site is geared towards students in grades 3-12, their teachers and parents. Teachers can access daily lesson plans for grades 6-12, as well as quizzes built around NYT articles. Previous lessons are available in the archive and in thematic lesson plan units. Teachers can also use News Snapshot, aimed for grades 3-5, to explore current events through New York Times photos and related questions. The site also provides them with the latest education news from the newspaper.

89. BIE : Problem Based Social Science BIE believes that using a problem based approach to teach social studies will make an important contribution to the high school reform movement and the http://www.bie.org/pbss/index.php

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90. Social Studies (B.A.) Mission The primary mission of the social studies major is to provide students with the content competency to teach social studies in secondary schools. http://www.csuohio.edu/undergradcatalog/a_s/degrees/socstu.htm

Skip Navigation [Course Index] Search Quick Links ... Undergraduate Catalog 2002-2004 Social Studies At-a-Glance Core Requirements Go to History Department website Social Studies (B.A.) At-a-Glance Mission: The primary mission of the Social Studies major is to provide students with the content competency to teach Social Studies in secondary schools. It forms the content knowledge basis for students to initiate teaching professions and provides the necessary critical thinking, analytical reasoning, and academic judgement skills upon which to embark on a lifetime of intellectual growth. Hours Required in the Major: 73 - 82 hours of specific courses or thematic areas chosen from history, anthropology, economics, political science and sociology. Some of these courses also can be used to partially fulfill General Education requirements. Major Field Requirements: The curriculum for the Social Studies major consists of a common core and one area of concentration chosen from three areas. The following courses are required of all Social Studies majors: Return to top The Core: HIS 101 Western Civilization I OR HIS 102 Western Civilization II HIS 111 U.S. History to 1877

91. Ms. Shaw's Instructional Technology Survival Guide The Language Arts and social studies sections are under construction. Byte into social studies SOLs with Technology An inservice presentation for 3-5 teachers. http://www.hopewell.k12.va.us/techsol/

Meet Ms. Shaw Ms. Sheree Shaw's Instructional Technology SOL Survival Guide E-mail Ms. Shaw This web site is designed to assist elementary students and teachers with technology integration in the four core areas. The lessons are correlated to the Virginia SOLs. This will also be the new home for teacher technology training pages. Make sure you check out my "Favorite Sites" page. I hope you find the links and activities helpful. Please send any comments or suggestions to Ms. Shaw Phase III Technology Training for Instructional Personnel Advanced PowerPoint Workshop ... Ms. Shaw's Favorite Sites Be sure to visit my favorite sites for many resources that support instruction of the Virginia SOLs. SOL REVIEW - GRADE 3 SOCIAL STUDIES SOL REVIEW - GRADE 3 SCIENCE SOL REVIEW - VIRGINIA STUDIES GRADE 4 (OR 5) SOL REVIEW - GRADE 5 SCIENCE ... Virginia SOL Assistance SOL released items practice tests and activities for all levels and subjects. Thanks to Tami Maloney from Poquoson for sharing these resources.

92. Border Studies Curriculum special attention and focus on the usMexico border. The curriculum has a social studies emphasis, but is The Border studies Curriculum (BSC) is portable and http://www.nmsu.edu/~bsc/

Border Studies Curriculum The Center for Latin American and Border Studies New Mexico State University 20 Ready-To-Use Lesson Plans For the Secondary Classroom Border Lessons Borders: Metaphors and Realities (Lesson 1) Border History (Lesson 2) Language: Border, Bridge, or Barrier?(Lesson 3) BilingualismSpanglish: A Way of Speaking, A Way of Thinking (Lesson 4) Border Identity: AngloChicaNorteNa (Lesson 5) Borders Within: Social Interaction on the Border (Lesson 6) Cultural Borders: Similarities, Differences, Influence (Lesson 7 Crossing the Border: Practicalities (Lesson 8) The Border Goes to Hollywood (Lesson 9) The Border in News Media (Lesson 10) Mapping the Border (Lesson 11) Border Math (Lesson 12) Border Music (Lesson 13) Border Teatro (Lesson 14) Border Legends, MythFolklore (Lesson 15) Border Icons (lesson 16) Border Sports: Bullfighting (Lesson 17) The Border Forum (Lesson 18) Border Poetry Workshop (Lesson 19) Border Project (Lesson 20) Appendix A: NCSS National Standards for Social Studies Teachers The NMSU Center for Latin American and Border Studies, with a grant from the federal Title VI program, has developed an integrated curriculum unit focusing on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. The twenty lessons, which are downloadable from this website, are aimed primarily at a high school audience, for use as an adjunct in the study of U.S. history, border state history, or world history. However, the lessons can also be adapted for a middle school audience . In addition, The Border Forum (Lesson 18) provides a guide to the resources of the on-line border news service

93. Lakeland:KidPix Lessons lesson into your current literature selection (ie draw a cat instead of a bear for Lesson 2 if you are reading Millions of Cats) or social studies or science http://www.littlelake.k12.ca.us/Lakeland/onlineleskidpix/onlinekidpix.html

This is a series of sequenced lessons for young children to learn how to use the KidPix tools. They should probably print the lesson page before they begin the lesson. lesson English Name (use typewriter and fill tools, choose font) Escribe tu nombre Bear (use drawing tool, choose line width) Stamps (use rubber stamp tool and vary size) Estampas, estampas Circles (use circle tool) Rectangles (use rectangle tool) Grass and sun (use of straight line tool) Zacate y sol Show me a pattern (make a pattern using stamps) Snakes alive! (using the paint tool to make a border) Serpiente viva Party hats (decorate party hats with designs) Gorras de fiesta A Perfect Day (drawing and stamps to make a scene) Animal talk (two animals with speech bubbles) Los animales platican Hats on the move (moving van to move hats) Las gorras en marcha Do consider modifying the lesson to integrate the "tools lesson" into your current literature selection (i.e. draw a cat instead of a bear for Lesson 2 if you are reading Millions of Cats ) or social studies or science unit (i.e. stamp insects in Lesson 3 if you are studying them). For the speedy kids, who are done before other students even have their names written, think about ways to enhance these simple lessons by making a more complex picture or combining and reviewing use of tools presented in previous lessons.

94. We Teach History-Social Science National Council for the social studies (NCSS) NCSS is the largest association in the country devoted solely to social studies education, engaging and http://tepd.ucop.edu/tepd/content/history.php

home about this site contact us professional ... task bank National Council for History Education (NCHE) : A non-profit corporation dedicated to promoting the importance of history in schools and in society. NCHE links history in the schools with many activities sponsored by state and local organizations. They provide a communications network for all advocates of history education, whether in schools, colleges, museums, historical councils, or community groups. National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS): NCSS is the largest association in the country devoted solely to social studies education, engaging and supporting educators in strengthening and advocating social studies. Membership is open to anyone with interest in the social studies. California Learning Resources Center , Here you will find Electronic Learning Resources that have recently been reviewed. You can also find the most recent messages posted to the History-Social Science Discussion area. Lesson Plan Publications : Created by teacher-participants in the California History-Social Science Project, these classroom-tested lesson plans are offered as part of the CH-SSP's ongoing commitment to facilitate the professional development efforts of California's history and social science teachers.

95. SBC Knowledge Network Explorer Online Learning Blue Web N Narrow History social studies Search By Early Childhood of very talented media professionals who want us to challenge are included for each area of study. http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/contentarea.cfm?cid=8

96. The Richard III And Yorkist History Server curriculum for a high school social studies unit. at the International Congress on Medieval studies, May 1998; a page with listings of us university centers of http://www.r3.org/learn.html

HOME MEMBERS ONLY (what's this?) ... Search the site Special Sections: Back to Basics Barley Hall Bosworth Fifteenth-Century ... Tours and Travel Learning Resources Journals and Libraries Bibliography Resources for Teachers Connecting with Scholars Students! Check out our Quick Start page to help you go straight to the resources you need! Teaching Richard III? Join our faculty forum! Share your experiences, ask for feedback from your colleagues! Use our online form , or view the forum. Your comments will be shared with the Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages Subcommittee on Secondary Education, and with other educators developing curricular materials for studying the later middle ages and the English Renaissance at the secondary school level. Member ResourcesJournals and Libraries Society Periodicals (with links to Tables of Contents for recent issues) Circulating Libraries Academic Programs Includes publications, conference, scholarship awards.

97. U-M International Center: Work: Overseas Opportunities In Social Work social sciences; social services; social welfare; social work; urban on agencies that offer awards for us nationals to study, teach, carry out http://www.umich.edu/~icenter/overseas/work/socialwork.html

Advanced Search for Overseas Opportunities only Work Abroad: Overseas Opportunities in Social Work By Sara Kershner, MSW School of Social Work and Peer Advisor, International Center, University of Michigan January 2003 Index to links on this page: Study/Internship Programs Employment and Volunteer Opportunities U-M Resources Financial Resources This handout describes resources for researching international opportunities for U.S. undergraduates, graduate students, and doctoral students interested in the field of social work. Highlighted are programs and positions, UM and non-Um Resources for Finding Organizations, funding sources and other resources. All publications listed are available for your use in the Overseas Opportunities Office at the U-M International Center, 603 E. Madison Street (next to Michigan Union), 647-2299 I. STUDY/INTERNSHIP PROGRAMS Academic Year Abroad (New York: Institute of International Education, updated annually) www.iiepassport.org

98. About History Matters WWW.History This feature is our annotated guide to the most useful Web sites for teaching us history and social studies. We http://historymatters.gmu.edu/expansion.html

More About History Matters Welcome to History Matters , a project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning of the City University of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. For contact information, and to find out more about the people behind the site, visit the About Us page. Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents and threaded discussions on teaching U.S. history. We emphasize materials that focus on the lives of ordinary Americans and actively involve students in analyzing and interpreting evidence. We welcome your participation in expanding and improving the site. We recently received a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. With that funding, we are launching a major expansion of the site, including the addition of new annotated Web sites, primary documents, visual documents, and interactive features. We are also introducing several new features, such as scholarly reviews of Web sites in collaboration with the

99. Social Studies For Kids social studies for Kids gives you articles, fun facts, glossaries, and tons of links for all subjects of social studies, with a focus on what kids and their teachers/parents are learning. women http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/

Memorial Day: A Time of Reflection Yes, Americans remember the men and women who died in wars. But this holiday is also a time to remember the veterans still living, who also fought in those wars. More on Memorial Day Book Review: Remember D-Day National Geographic, as always, has come out with another excellent book, this one on the World War II Allied invasion of Normandy known as D-Day. Author Ronald J. Drez has filled his book with rare photographs and familiar maps, illustrating the harrowing and horrific challenges faced by the Allied soldiers and commanders in finding a way to pierce Germany's Fortress Europe and turn back the tide of Hitler's Nazi expansion. Book Review: On This Spot THIS WEEK IN HISTORY The Dunkirk Evacuation On June 4, 1940, the German army seized the French port of Dunkirk, ending the evacuation that had begun nine days earlier and had saved 338,000 Allied troops. Site search Web search powered by FreeFind Sponsor Advertise on this site Social Studies for Kids David White Sites for Teachers Teach-nology.com

100. Abcteach.com >> Theme Units >> Social Studies >> Constitution www.abcteach.com. abcteach directory. If you like this category you might also like abcteach.com Theme Units social studies United States Activities. http://www.abcteach.com/directory/theme_units/social_studies/constitution/

Member Log In Worksheets Tell a Friend Membership Popular: Month to Month ABC Activities Rain Forest Teaching Extras ... Portfolios a b c teach directory Home Theme Units Social Studies Constitution Master's Degrees for Teachers Now there's a better way to earn your master's degree! Canter partners with Walden University, an accredited institution, to offer teachers the best in specialized master's degree programs, combining the flexibility of distance learning with practical skills you can adapt to meet your classroom needs. Click here for more info. Constitution Item Description American Heroes Bill of Rights writing activity Book Report goes with the book "Shhh! We're Writing The Constitution" by Jean Fritz Classroom Bill of Rights Election Reading Comprehension Famous Person Report for the book "Shhh! We're Writing The Constitution" by Jean Fritz Freedom of Speech I just have to ask these questions! KWL Lilterature Circle Notes for "Shhh! We're Writing The Constitution" by Jean Fritz Literature Circle Mark those words! Literature Groups Planner Report Cover Report Form ... We're Writing Our Classroom Constitution If you like this category you might also like: Try these links too Site Description Core Democratic Values for Kids Join Our Newsletter: Your email address: Stay current with a b c teach Become a Member: a b c teach Members sign up today Join our member site and gain access to: documents!

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