Facing History

Video clips, kits, photos, ability to borrow books and videos from their lending library.  ABSOLUTELY AWESOME site.

http://www.facinghistory.org

Teaching Tolerance

Lots of great resources, ideas, and FREE materials for helping students understand others.

www.tolerance.org/index.jsp

Welcome to the California Council for the Social Studies

California Council for Social Studies
http://www.ccss.org/

Schools of California Online Resources for Education

Background books/resources for the TEACHER (SCORE, professional organizations, Journal articles, ERIC
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/

Social Studies School Service Catalog

Social Studies materials for sale
http://www.socialstudies.com/

USA through Children's Literature

Carol Hurt's web site - US through Children's Literature

http://www.carolhurst.com/subjects/uslit.html

Social Studies Lesson Plans

Wide variety of topics and grade levels

http://www.sitesforteachers.com/resources_sharp/socialstudies.html

Civics Education Standards

Civics Education Standards

http://www.civiced.org

The ABC's: A Bibliography of Social Studies Theme Books

- very comprehensive.  

http://74.125.45.104/search?q=cache:ToCqHd67EVsJ:www.michigan.gov/documents/Social_Studies_Trade_Books_42259_7.pdf+social+studies+and+children%27s+literature&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us&client=safari

Open Wide Look Inside

 - integration of math, science, social studies, and children's literature. Awesome!

http://blog.richmond.edu/openwidelookinside/archives/22

Children's Literature with Social Studies themes

Children's Literature with Social Studies themes

http://www.udel.edu/dssep/literature.html

Philadelphia history

Sights, resources of the City of Brotherly Love

http://www.ushistory.org/philadelphia

MANY VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS

Kind of Web QUEST LIKE INFO - .  I only checked the Baking Bread one, which was great.

http://www.field-guides.com/trips.htm

TONS of socials studies web sites

by genre at "Virtual Middle School Library"

http://www.sldirectory.com/teachf/socsci.html

Field trips at and by the Smithsoinan Institute

Washington, DC

http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/field_trips/field_trips.html

Smithsonian resources for videoconferencing

for teachers.

http://americanart.si.edu/education/programs/artful_connections.cfm

One Room Schoolhouses in MD

History of Education in Maryland -

http://somdthisisliving.somd.com/vol9num1/history-of-public-education.html

FREE POVERTY

- while testing your knowledge of world geography, you can earn free water for those in the world who need it. AWESOME GAME...  (see FREE RICE).

http://www.freepoverty.com/

Free Rice

- AWESOME vocabulary game earns rice for the world's hungry by each correct answer. (see FREE POVERTY)

http://www.freerice.com/index.php

Teaching Social Studies in Maryland

http://www.mdk12.org/instruction/curriculum/social_studies/index.html