Social Studies Resources to Support Learning During COVID-19
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General
General- 26 Best Podcasts for Kids in Elementary, Middle and High School - We Are Teachers
- C3 Teachers: Inquiries
- CNN 10
- Crash Course
- Digital Public Library of America
- DOGOnews
- Elementari
- Empatico
- Free eBooks - Project Gutenberg
- Google Arts and Culture
- The Learning Network -The New Your Times
- Open Social Studies - University of Massachusetts Boston
- Open Yale Courses - Yale University
- Pulitzer Center: Education
- Social Justice Books
- Social Studies and History - Annenberg Learner
- Teaching American History: Documents
- Teaching Tolerance
- TIME for Kids
- Together When Apart: Weekly Inquiries - inquirED
- Veterans National Education Program
- World Digital Library
Behavior Sciences
Psychology
- Psychology Framework - Nebraska Department of Education Standards Instructional Tool
- TOPSS High School Psychology Course Template available in Canvas - American Psychological Association
Sociology
- Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology (TRAILS) - American Sociological Association
Civics/Government
- The American Presidency Project
- Center for Civic Education Lesson Plans
- Center on Representative Government - Indiana University
- Certell
- Civic Online Reasoning
- Civics 101: A Podcast
- Civics360.org
- CivicsRenewalNetwork.org Resources
- C-SPAN Classroom
- Florida Joint Center for Citizenship
- iCivics.org
- KidCitizen Episodes
- KQED Learn
- NewseumED.org
- News Literacy Project
- Street Law
- Teaching Civics
- Teaching with the News - The Choices Program at Brown University
Economics
- Certell
- EconEdLink Resources
- FutureSmart - EVERFI
- Helping Kids Build a Stable Financial Foundation - EVERFI
- Kiddynomics: An Economics Curriculum for Young Learners, Lessons for Grades Pre-K-K - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
- Marketplaces - Investing Basics: Critical Investment Education for High School Students - EVERFI
- Next Gen Personal Finance: Activities
- Seas, Trees, and Economies - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
- Sustainability and Economics - Minnesota Council on Economic Education
- Take Control of Your Financial Future - EVERFI
- Youth Personal Finance Pedagogy - Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Geography
- Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States - Digital Scholarship Lab - University of Richmond
- Esri GeoInquiries™ for World Geography
- Geographic Big Ideas - A digital textbook with linked activities, presentations and maps - Michigan Open Book Project
- Geography Now YouTube Channel
- GeoHistory - Arizona Geographic Alliance - Arizona State University
- GeoLiteracy - Arizona Geographic Alliance - Arizona State University
- Lesson Warehouse - Minnesota Alliance for Geographic Education
- National Geographic Classroom Resources
- Pulitzer Center: Education
History
- America in Class - National Humanities Center
- Beyond the Bubble: History Assessments - Stanford History Education Group - Stanford University
- Big History Project
- Bringing History Home
- Children and Youth in History - Center for History and New Media
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers - Library of Congress
- Citizen U Lesson Plans - Barat Education Foundation
- Decoding the Civil War - The Huntington
- Densho: History of the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans
- EDSITEment! Student Activities - National Endowment for the Humanities
- Elementary Age At-Home Learning Activities - Education at the National Archives
- EyeWitness to History.com
- Facing History and Ourselves
- The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
- Historical Scene Investigation
- Historical Thinking Matters: Student Investigations
- History at Home: America the Story of Us - History
- History Labs - Center for History Education - University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- Iowa History Educator Resources - Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs - State Historical Society of Iowa
- iWitness - Histories of Holocaust survivors and witnesses - USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education
- Mission US - WNET THIRTEEN
- Native Knowledge 360° - Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
- New American History: Learning Resources
- OurStory - Smithsonian National Museum of American History
- Reading Like a Historian: History Lessons - Stanford History Education Group
- Smithsonian's History Explorer - Smithsonian National Museum of American History
- Teaching American History - Ashbrook Center at Ashland University
- TimeMaps
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Teach
- U.S. History - PBS LearningMedia
- World101 - Council on Foreign Relations
- World History Commons
- World History for Us All: Teaching Units
- World's Largest Lesson