PDC: Social Studies Links
Social Studies Links
January 11, 2005

MAP
Maine Assessment Portfolio
http://www.state.me.us/education/lsalt/MAP/homepage.htm
National
Council for the Social Studies
http://www.ncss.org/
Nebraska Partnership-Lessons designed by Nebraska
Teachers
http://cehs.unl.edu/ushistory/
Maps
of counties in Nebraska with links to information about the
county
http://www.nde.state.ne.us/ss/cty/nebraska_counties.html
http://www.nctc.net/counties/index1.html
Our
Documents
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/
PBS
website for teachers
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/soc_stud.htm
Marco
Polo website for lessons in the areas of history, geography,
economics, the arts, and philosophy and religion
http://www.marcopolosearch.org
A
website that provides suggestions for teachers on how to help their
students analyze documents:
http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/analysis/analysis.html
A
website with ideas for teaching and learning for kids from the
U.S.
http://www.usmint.gov/kids/
Neat
Social Studies site
http://www.thehistorynet.com
Lesson Plans and Resources for Social Studies Teachers
http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013
Nebraska
Department of Education
http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS
http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/ne_history_resources.html
Westward to Nebraska
http://www.westnebraska.com
Library of Congress-Immigration Migration
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/98/migrate/intro.html
Nebraska History
http://www.nebraskahistory.org/museum/teachers/material/trailblz/14/
Social Studies activities from Discovery
Channel
http://school.discovery.com
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
Federal government website for teacher:
http://www.ed.gov/free/s-social.html
A
website for political cartoons with suggestions on how to use
them
http://cagle.slate.msn.com/teacher/
Lessons for geography from National
Geographic
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons
History/Social Studies for K-12 teachers
http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/boals.html
Columbia Education Center Lesson Plans
http://www.col-ed.org/cur/#Soc
Lesson Plans Page
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SS.htm
Nebraska - America's Frontier
http://www.visitnebraska.org
National Archives and Records
Administration
http://www.archives.gov
UNL
Nebraska Studies
http://nebraskastudies.org/
Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Online
Project
http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/