An RSS Feed enables you to automatically receive news items and blog postings. See the links below for more information.
Twitter can also be a useful online resource for keeping current on a wide range of topics. Consider the following sites to direct you to useful Twitter accounts. Also, there are many hashtags related to social studies teaching.
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Who to Follow? Social Studies Twitter Accounts Suggestions from Channel One News |
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Social Studies Teachers A lengthy list of Twitter accounts compiled via a PB Wiki |
The SSChat Network |
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worldgeochat |
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Newsela Newsela is a data base of current events stories for classroom use. It has topical categories and tries to assign a reading level to each story to help with differentiation of nonfiction reading. |
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American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL) Covers children's books, lesson plans, films, and other items related to the topic of American Indians and/or how this topic is taught. |
Book Savors Reviews of newer and older books. Recommendations for using the text in writing or reading. |
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I.N.K. - Interesting Nonfiction for Kids Unique nonfiction authors and books. Sunsetted in 2014. |
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Waking Brain Cells Covers book reviews and other children's and YA literature news. |
Visions of Education A podcast that brings fuzzy ideas in education into focus. |
Here is a great list of sites about children's literature in general.