NEW SCHOOL CIVICS

Great Places to Find Resources for the Social Studies Classroom

• Video/Audio

  • PBS

  • History Channel

  • Discovery Channel (A&E)

  • HBO

  • Showtime

  • Amazon.com

  • Youtube

    • http://www.youtube.com/user/HistoryFeed?feature=watch

  • Google Videos

  • Google Search (message boards)

  • Annenberg Media

    • Biography of US

  • HIstory Channel – America: The Story of US

  • How Stuff Works History – http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history

  • http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/hsw-shows/stuff-you-missed-in-history-class-podcast.htm

  • http://www.havefunwithhistory.com/movies/index.html

  • Crash Course Videos

  • Funny or Die (may not be appropriate)

  • Drunk History (may not be appropriate)

  • http://www.watchknowlearn.org/Category.aspx?CategoryID=3515

  • http://www.mediarichlearning.com/

  • Democracy Now!

  • VPR

  • NPR

  • http://www.pbs.org/pov/topics/#.URB6WejlUVk

• Primary Sources

  • Digital History UH

  • http://teachinghistory.org/

  • http://teachinghistory.org/best-practices/using-primary-sources/24490

  • learner.org

  • http://www.gilderlehrman.org

  • http://www.digitalvaults.org/

• Text

  • Digital History UH

  • iPad American History Book

  • Teaching Tolerance

  • History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World…

  • http://www.shmoop.com/

  • http://www.gilderlehrman.org

  • Military History (great for patriotic versions)

• Photos/Art/Music

• Lessons/Activities

  • Beyond the Bubble

  • Rethinking Schools

  • Edutopia

  • http://web.wm.edu/hsi/?svr=www (CSI Style Historical Investigations)

  • http://www.teachushistory.org/

  • Lessons that Work

  • http://centuryofprogress.org/

  • Teaching Tolerance

  • http://edsitement.neh.gov/

  • Zinn Project

  • Choices Program (Brown University) – http://www.choices.edu/index.php

  • http://www.icivics.org/teachers/lesson-plans

  • http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/lessons/index_soc.html?print