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Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
Education:
Social Studies Education
Social studies covers many areas of inquiry. This set of web links features some of the best of local (Rutgers University Libraries, New Jersey History) and national sites for educators. Look for more sites to be added as they are discovered.
Rutgers Resources on the Web
- Electronic New Jersey
- This New Jersey-focused Social Studies site was prepared with social
studies teachers as partners with Special Collections, Rutgers University Libraries.
Pages include topical information and digital objects from these eras:
the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, Paul Robeson, Women's Suffrage,
Jersey Homesteads, World War II, Cold War, and the Social Culture of the
1960's and 1970's.
- URL: http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njh/
- New Jersey Digital Highway (NJDH)
- "The New Jersey Digital Highway (NJDH) is a new way to explore our state's history and culture. NJDH is a collaboration of the state's libraries, museums, archives and historical societies to provide a "one stop shop" for New Jersey's cultural treasures-photographs, books, documents, three-dimensional objects, video and audio. There are interest areas:
- Everyone can find information about New Jersey and about documenting your own family history and culture.
- Educators will also find information, tools and activities for teaching about the immigrant experience in New Jersey.
- Students will find information about New Jersey, resources to help them learn and prepare school projects, and activities to explore their own family history.
- Librarians & Curators will find information about creating and managing their collections, as well as opportunities to participate in New Jersey Digital Highway.
- Visit the area that interests you most to begin your adventure on the New Jersey Digital Highway.
- NJDH's inaugural collection is
The Changing Face of New Jersey - The Immigration Experience from Earliest Times to the Present. This collection presents materials and information about the rich, diverse peoples and culture of New Jersey. Photographs, letters, documents, books and oral histories tell the story of New Jersey through the stories of people who brought new cultures, languages and ideas with them to New Jersey."
---from site page.
- URL: http://www.njdigitalhighway.org/
Other WWW Resources
Standards and Curriculum
- National Council for Social Studies:
- NCSS does not rate or approve social studies textbooks; however,
in cooperation with the Children's Book Council, NCSS annually assembles an
annotated book list, Notable Social Studies Books for Young People, which is available at
http://www.socialstudies.org/standards/.
Link to the PDF of the book: Expectations of Excellence:
Curriculum Standards for Social Studies. This section is on the ten
strands that
form the social studies education standards.
Other features include Lesson Plans, Notable Trade Books, Teachable Moments and
Teaching Resources.
- URL: http://www.socialstudies.org/
Museum Collections
- Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies
- The site features Social Studies areas for Grades 4-12 and teacher's materials
based on the Museum's collections. Recent links to exhibits include Kids Collecting,
American Presidents, Textiles. There is an Educator's
Toolkit (handouts, Teaching Tools, standards) as well as a Virtual Field Trip link.
Featured links include:
- Borders and Identity
- "Borders and Identity" teaching materials aim to contribute to an increased understanding
of the complexities of border culture through a focus on the peoples and places of the
U.S.-Mexico border.
(Grades 4-12)
- Encyclopedia Smithsonian
- Also refer to Encyclopedia Smithsonian for answers to frequently asked questions about
the Smithsonian and links to Smithsonian resources from A to Z. (Grades 4-12)
- Geography From Space
- Test your knowledge of geography and remote sensing by playing Geography From Space!
Four quizzes are now available.
(Grades 4-12)
- The Star Spangled Banner Web site
- The Star Spangled Banner Web site has problems to solve using online primary source
documents and includes a teaching guide.
(Grades 4-12)
- Whole Cloth
- "Whole Cloth: Discovering Science and Technology through American Textile History"
is an interdisciplinary curriculum integrating science, technology, and invention
with women's, African American, and labor history.
(Grades 4-12)
---[descriptions from Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies page]
Teacher Resources
- American Memory, Library of Congress
- "American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning."
- The collection includes manuscripts, prints, photographs, posters, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, books, pamphlets, and sheet music. Each online collection is accompanied by a set of explanatory features designed to make the materials easy to find, use, and understand.
- Find images, lesson plans, documents and other resources that you can use in stimulating social studies lessons. Let your students browse the collections for their assignments.
- URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
- CountryWatch@School (UNESCO)
- Provides curriculum-based resources, which include country-quizzes, as well as activities and lesson plans derived from CountryWatch, Inc.'s Country ReviewsTM and Country WireTM. These features are tailored to Social Studies students in grades 8 through 12. These features are intended to widen students' awareness of the interconnected global world within which we live. Because these features have been developed in accordance with National Social Studies Standards, teachers of Social Studies will also find CountryWatch@School to be a helpful resource when used in tandem with established Social Studies curriculum."
---from site description.
- URL: http://www.countrywatch.com/school/school_default.aspx
- New York Times Lesson Plans-Social Studies
- [American History, Civics, Current Events]
- These lesson plans are built on current events as they appear in the New York Times.
An example of a lesson is
Allow Me to Demonstrate ... (Grades 6-8 , 9-12 ).
Examining Public Protests in Modern History. In this lesson,
students examine the causes, actions and results of different demonstrations
from around the world in modern history.(July 20, 2005).
The educator can use the popular site features" On This Day in History" ,
"Picture of the Day", "Issues in Depth"[which covers issues in American and global history,
Civics, and Social Studies] as lesson plan construction aides.
- URL: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/socialstudies.html
- U.S. House of Representatives--Educational Resources
- This site provides an overview of the process of lawmaking, and is appropriate for American
Government research. Information on the history and process of the legislative process, full
texts of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, links to the Library of
Congress media site and all amendments are featured on the page.
- URL: http://www.house.gov/house/Educate.shtml
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