Research Guides: EDUC 430: Teaching to Transgress: Social Studies

Finding Funding For Classroom Materials

Potential sources and tools to help you look for outside ways to provide classroom materials Don't forget to also investigate local sources of funding such as your local charitable organizations, Rotary Club, and Chamber of Commerce. Communicate with your department and school administration in order to find funding successfully and also to follow all district rules/tax policies that might apply.

Social Studies Classroom Standards

National and State of Michigan social studies standards

Comprehensive Classroom Subject Resources

These sites have lesson plans and ideas for a multitude of topics and can be used for almost any social studies classroom.

	Mr. Donn's Site for Kids & Teachers While the site looks a little dated, Mr. Donn's social studies resources site has been used for YEARS by teachers in multiple subjects and grades. It's a good clearinghouse for many social studies resources.
	Teaching Social Studies Inquiry and Argument Writing with Sources Various lesson plans using the Read. Inquire. Write method.
	Learning for Justice Formerly Teaching Tolerance, Learning for Justice provides free resources to educators—teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners who work with children from kindergarten through high school in order to help them educate children and youth to be active participants in a diverse democracy.
	Zinn Education Project The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s social studies in classrooms across the country.
	NCSS Online Teacher's Library Online resources from the National Council for the Social Studies
	National Education Association's Social Studies Lesson Plans These resources can be filtered by grade level. Some lessons include activities that focus on incorporating children's literature into the social studies curriculum.
	New York Times: The Learning Network Blog All the lesson plans from the New York Times' Learning Network blog.
	Elementary Social Studies Teaching Resources Teaching resources that cover a wide variety of social studies topics including geography, history, economics, and politics.
	Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia
	World History and Timelines Major events in world history compiled by Infoplease.
	C3 Inquiries Archive C3 Teachers published these inquiries through their work on the New York State Social Studies K-12 Resource Toolkit project.
	Oakland County School's Curriculum Units Includes lesson plans, graphics, timelines, and standard mapping.

Classroom Tools

These sites provide online tools that can help you make puzzles, timelines, activity sheets, and other classroom materials.

	Discovery Education Puzzlemaker Free puzzle generation tools.
	Top 10 Free Timeline Creation Tools for Teachers Various tools to help your students create timelines. Look for tools that allow your students to include images and easily save their work.
	Docs Teach The online tool for teaching with documents from the National Archives.
	Learning the Continents Through Songs & Poems Songs & Poems about the continents using lyrics from well-known verses.
	Education.com's Social Studies Worksheets and Printables Various downloadable ideas that you might use to supplement your instruction.