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 Free Resources for Teaching Civics and U.S. Government  ReadingQuest: Making Sense in Social Studies is a website designed for social studies teachers who wish to more effectively engage their students with the content in their classes.   FactMonster.com (formerly known as Infopleasekids.com) was launched in August 2000 by Information Please. Fact Monster and its Homework Center have received national recognition for their unbeatable reference materials, fun facts and features, and individualized homework help.  OELA's National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Educational Programs (NCELA) collects, analyzes, synthesizes and disseminates information about language instruction educational programs for English language learners and related programs. This section includes resources for developing content knowledge in the Social Studies classroom.  Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts — reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history. Calisphere's content has been selected from the libraries and museums of the UC campuses, and from a variety of cultural heritage organizations. See the list of contributing institutions.  The American Association for History and Computing (AAHC) is dedicated to the reasonable and productive marriage of history and computer technology for teaching, researching and representing history through scholarship and public history.  The Teaching with Primary Sources Program works with colleges and other educational organizations to deliver professional development programs that help teachers use the Library of Congress's rich reservoir of digitized primary source materials to design challenging, high-quality instruction. 
socialstudies.org | Expectations of Excellence: Curriculum Standards for Social Studies
www.socialstudies.org/standards/  NCSS Curriculum Standards  The mission of National Council for the Social Studies is to provide leadership, service, and support for all social studies educators.   Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1000 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more. The Freedom Forum is the main funder of the operations of the Newseum, an interactive museum of news opening in October in Washington, D.C. Geography
 A worldwide community of students, teachers, scientists, and citizens working together to better understand, sustain, and improve Earth's environment at local, regional, and global scales.  Geography and Travel  Welcome to geography US History
 History and Government World History
 Welcome to history Museums
Smithsonian Education - Lesson Plans - History and Culture
www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plan...  access more than 1,300 rich Smithsonian educational resources.  from Federal Agencies Lesson Plans
 Lesson Plans  The Learning Page  Social Studies Lesson Plans  Social Studies Geography   Founded in 1921, National Council for the Social Studies has grown to be the largest association in the country devoted solely to social studies education. NCSS engages and supports educators in strengthening and advocating social studies.   From lesson plans based on national curriculum standards to professional development opportunities to college-level historic preservation course outlines, the National Park Service has tools that can help enliven classroom presentations and engage students in learning about history.  A curriculum for middle school and secondary students developed by the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) and the Silk Road Project |
