Resources Social Studies & History
K-2
Social Studies in Action: A Methodology Workshop, K-5
This video workshop for K-5 teachers provides a framework for teaching social studies, with a focus on creating effective citizens.
Social Studies in Action: A Teaching Practices Library, K-12
This video library for K-12 teachers shows a variety of effective social studies lessons and techniques for use with students at all levels.3-5
U.S. History Map Interactive
With a map as your guide, trace the growth and settlement of the United States.
Social Studies in Action: A Methodology Workshop, K-5
This video workshop for K-5 teachers provides a framework for teaching social studies, with a focus on creating effective citizens.
Social Studies in Action: A Teaching Practices Library, K-12
This video library for K-12 teachers shows a variety of effective social studies lessons and techniques for use with students at all levels.6-8
Essential Lens: Analyzing Photographs Across the Curriculum
A multidisciplinary resource for middle and high school teachers to use photographs and photographic ephemera to convey content and teach visual analysis skills.
Ethics in America II
Eminent leaders explore hypothetical ethical dilemmas in this video series for college and high school classrooms and adult leaders.
U.S. History Map Interactive
With a map as your guide, trace the growth and settlement of the United States.
Reading & Writing in the Disciplines
Learn research, practice, and tools for integrating discipline literacy into mathematics, science, English, and history/social studies content based lessons.
Social Studies in Action: A Teaching Practices Library, K-12
This video library for K-12 teachers shows a variety of effective social studies lessons and techniques for use with students at all levels.9-12
A Biography of America
American history is presented as a living narrative rather than a collection of facts and dates.
Democracy in America
A comprehensive video course for high school teachers on civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions based on an established civics framework.
Discovering Psychology: Updated Edition
Discovering Psychology provides an overview of historic and current theories of human behavior.
The Middle Ages Interactive
Discover what it was like to live during the Middle Ages.
Renaissance Interactive
Explore the Renaissance and discover the forces that drove this rebirth in Europe, and in Italy in particular.College/Adult
A Biography of America
American history is presented as a living narrative rather than a collection of facts and dates.
Democracy in America
A comprehensive video course for high school teachers on civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions based on an established civics framework.
Discovering Psychology: Updated Edition
Discovering Psychology provides an overview of historic and current theories of human behavior.
Economics U$A: 21st Century Edition
Introductory micro- and macroeconomics using news-style case studies paired with analysis segments that tie the stories to fundamental economic principles.