Useful Social Studies Websites - Lesson Plans and Resources for Social Studies Teachers

Website:

http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/index.html

Uses and Content:

This website is maintained by a professor at California State University, Northridge and was last updated in November of 2002.

It is basically a collection of links to many internet sources in the following categories:

• lesson plans and strategies
• online activities
• teaching current events via newspapers, magazines and TV
• newsgroups and mailing lists
• NCSS
• educaional standards and curriculum frameworks
• social studies school service
• what's new this month
  
• other social studies resources

The website is not current and thus the "what's new this month" link is not very usefull as nothing is new since 2002.

There is a short description of every site that there is a link to. Some of the sites are more useful and some are less.

If you are willing to take a little time to look through the plethora of links that this website provides there are definitely many useful ones. Under the 'other social studies resources' category there are links to the US department of education and many other useful sites.

Some of the links do not work.