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Lesson Plans
- By Grade Level (Lesson Plans Page - Eduscope)
Provides hundreds of lessons by grade level. 4-00
- By Grade Level - California Standards-Based Social Studies for K-12 (Schools of California)
Provides lessons organized by the California SCORE Social Studies Framework for K-12.
- By Grade Level and Standard (Copernicus)
Provides a Curriculum Matrix of learning resources, lesson plans, and activities mapped to essential academic standards. 1-00
- By Grade Level and Standard - California Social Studies for K-12 (Kings County Office of Education - Shaver)
Provides a directory of the California SCORE Social Studies Framework for K-12. California's framework for curriculum standards is similar to the national standards for social studies, as well as standards in many states.
- By Theme or Topic - California Standards-Based Social Studies for K-12 (Schools of California)
Provides lessons organized by the California SCORE Social Studies Framework for K-12.
- Current Events (Education World - Hopkins)
Provides twenty-five suggestions for engaging students in current events. 8-99
- Current Events - Critical Thinking About Kosovo (Lower Hudson Regional Information Center)
Provides four lessons designed to help students examine conflicting views of events. 2-00
- Current Events - Propaganda (Donn)
Provides lessons that show students how to look for hidden messages. Includes worksheets.
- Current Events - Study Guides on Current Issues (KidsNet)
Provides guides to support a number of television documentary programs. Available for free on a limited basis.
- Current Events - Teaching via TV and Newspapers
- Ecology - Conservation and Geography (Donn)
Provides over two dozen sets of lessons.
- Ethical Dilemmas from Four Views (Donn)
Provides a variety of current ethical dilemmas that students may face and requires them to answer from four points of view from ancient China - Confucianist, Taoist, Buddhist, and Legalist.
- Geography (Education World - Hopkins)
Provides twenty-five activities for teaching geography.
- Geography - Cultural Geography Lessons (Remmell)
See "Cultural Geography" on the top left of Mr. Remmell's page.
- Geography - Grade 3 - World Rivers (Schertz Elementary)
- Geography - States and Regions of the United States (Donn)
Provides lesson plans and related materials to study facts about the United States. Designed for grades 4 - 6.
- Geography Lesson Plans (Armstrong)
Provides over two dozen sources of lessons on Geography.
- Geography Lessons by Topic (Teachers.net)
Provides resources by topic. 3-00
- Geography by Grade Level, Standard, and Topic (Oregon Geographic Alliance)
Provides numerous lessons by topic, grade level, and standards. 2-00
- Global, Environmental, and Cultural Lessons (American Forum for Global Education) 2-00
Government - Civics and Government Lesson Plans (Center for Civic Education)Provides 10 lessons around thought-provoking questions related to the foundations of a democracy, such as authority, responsibility, rights, and justice.
Government - Civilization (Braden) Provides a lesson around the nature of civilization, using a trip to Mars by a large goup as the vehicle. The lesson is called Thoughts About Civilization.
Government - Florida Civic-Ed Provides resource materials to teach Florida Civic-Ed.
Government - Impeachable Offense (New York Times) Provides a lesson regarding the Constitutional basis for impeaching the President of the United States.
Government - Law-Related Education (Donn) Provides lessons, mock trials and much more.
Government - Law-Related Education - Mock Trials (Donn) Provides 22 sources on mock trials and the justice system for students. 1-00
Government - Law-Related Education - Mock Trials (University of Minnesota) Provides for four mock trials, working with teens and professionals in the community. Provided in Adobe Acrobat format.
Government - Teaching Citizenship's Five Themes (Education World - Hopkins) Provides suggestions for teaching children skills in honesty, compassion, respect, responsibility and courage. Includes lessons for grades K - 6.
Government - What is a City? (United Nations)
Government Lesson Plans (AskERIC) Provides over 50 lessons plans in U.S. government, by topic and then grade level.
Government Lessons (Cassutto) Provides 18 weeks of lessons.
Grade -K - 6 Geography - Historical and Cultural (Armstrong)
Grade 1 - 12 Geography - Historical and Cultural (Armstrong)
Grade 3 - 6 General Social Studies (McGraw-Hill)
Grade 9 - 12 Social Studies (CEC) Provides over 4 dozen lessons for K - 12, but most are for over grade 5.
Grade K - 12a Social Studies (CEC) Provides two lessons for K - 12, but most are for grade 5 and under.
Grade K - 12b Social Studies (CEC) Provides over 4 dozen lessons for K - 12, but most are for over grade 5.
Helping Others - Kids Can Make a Difference on Hunger (Kids Can Make a Difference) Provides a teacher's guide.
History - Ancient Chinese (Nguyen and Donn) Provides a fully developed lesson plan. 4-00
History - Ancient Egyptian Papyrus (Mollet) Provides compelete lesson on papyrus, the early form of paper.
History Lessons (Awesome Library)
History Lessons by Topic (Teachers.net) Provides resources by topic. 3-00
Holidays (Awesome Library) Provides information and activities for holidays and other celebrations. Not all of these resources are lesson plans.
Issues - 101 Things Friends Do
Issues - So, What Do You Want to Be?
Issues - Society (TeachNet)Provides lessons on 4 social issues and includes grade levels.
Lesson Plans - Elementary Level (Louisiana Public Schools) Provides lesson plans by teachers and includes the subject areas covered for each. Lessons are arranged alphabetically, by title. 1-00
Multicultural Lessons (Awesome Library)
Research - Using Primary Sources (US Library of Congress) Provides activities to learn how to use primary sources, using different modalities.
Slavery - Underground Railroad (Headbone Interactive) The Head Bone Zone provides an interactive Internet lesson to lead in an escape from slavery during the mid 1800's.
Social Skills - Conflict Management (Stanford) Provides extensive exercises to help adolescents learn conflict management skills.
Social Skills - Discussion Skills (Stanford) Provides extensive exercises to help adolescents learn conflict management skills.
Social Studies (Michigan State University and Ameritech) Provides dozens of lessons in social studies.
Social Studies - General (Sharp) 
Provides a long list of resources.
Social Studies - Grade -K - 5 Elementary Level (Columbia Education Center) Delzeit provides 51 mini-lessons for K - 5 from the Columbia Education Center. Grade level for each is marked.
Social Studies - Grade 4 - 12 Intermediate Level (Columbia Education Center)Delzeit provides 80 mini-lessons for 4 - 12 from the Columbia Education Center. Grade level for each is marked.
Social Studies - Grade 9 - 12 High School Level (Columbia Education Center) Delzeit provides 94 mini-lessons for 9 - 12 from the Columbia Education Center. Grade level for each is marked.
Social Studies Lesson Plans (Bunch)Provides over two dozen lesson plans.
Social Studies Lesson Plans (ERIC - AskERIC) Provides over 100 lessons by topic. Includes grade level.
Social Studies Lesson Plans (Levine)Provides over a hundred annotated sources of lesson plans related to Social Studies.
Social Studies Lesson Plans - Alphabetical (Levine) Provides over 100 sources of lesson plans and actvities for Social Studies.
Social Studies Lesson Plans - Online Activities (Levine) Provides over 100 online activities for interactive learning of Social Studies.
Social Studies Lessons (Scholastic) Provides lessons by topic and includes dozens of topics. 12-99
Social Studies Lessons by Grade (Houghton Mifflin) Provides lessons by grade. Designed by Houghton Mifflin to fit particularly well with their texts.
Social Studies Lessons by Grade (McGraw-Hill) Designed to work with McGraw-Hill's Adventures in Time and Place
Social Studies Lessons by Topic (Teachers.net) Provides resources by topic. 3-00
Social Studies Resources and Lesson Plans by Grade Level (BCSSTA) Provides lessons and activities by general grade level. 1-00
Sociology and Psychology Lesson Plans (Donn) Provides collections of articles and sources by topic. 1-00
Teaching the News (Riverdeep Interactive) Provides activities and lessons around current events. 1-00
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- Last Updated 08/27/00