Social Studies Resources

 ECONOMICS Multi-Level Resources

K-2

Master Curriculum Guide in Economics: Teaching Strategies K-2

Book + BLMS

K-2

Pocketwise: Personal Finance Economics

Teacher Resource manual

K-12

Virtual Economics

CD-Rom & user's guide

1-6

Ump's Fwat: An Annual Report for Young People

paperback

2-3

Econ & Me

Teacher's Kit, 2 videos, TE

2-4

Work, Human Resources, and Choices

TE & Student Activities sheets

3-4

Children in the Marketplace: Lesson plans in Economics for grades 3 and 4

Binder

3-4

Master Curric. Guide in Econ: Teaching Strategies 3-4

Book + BLMS

3-4

Work, Human Resources, and Choices

Book + BLMS

3-5

The Money Story

Kit includes video (33 min), Teacher's guide, coin poster, 2 sticker sheets, 1cent coin & blank

3-5

$mart $pending and $aving, Personal Finance Economics, 3-5

Binder, Tea. Res. manual

4-6

You Can be an Inventor: Human Capital & Entrepreneurship

TE & Student Activities sheets

5-6

Basic Economics Test

Examiner's manual + 25cc Form A & B each

6-9

Geography: Focus on Ecoomics

Activity book by NCEE

7-9

Test of Economic Knowledge

Examiner's manual + 25cc

6-12

Focus on Economics: World History

Activity book

7-12

Focus on Economics:U.S. History

Activity book + transparencies (all in binder)

6-12

Focus on Economics:Geography

Activity book

7-12

Focus on Economics:Civics & Government

Activity book

SOCRATIC SEMINAR

Readings

Touchpebbles - Volume A

student vol. & T.E.

Touchpebbles - Volume B

student vol. & T.E.

Touchstones - Volume A

student vol. & T.E.

Touchstones - Volume B

student vol. & T.E.

Touchstones - Volume C

student vol. & T.E.

Touchstones - Volume I

student vol. & T.E.

Touchstones - Volume II

student vol. & T.E.

Touchstones - Volume III

student vol. & guide & wkshts

Touchstones - Volume IV

student vol.

Touchstones - Readings in Social Studies

book

Videos

How to Improve your Questioning Techniques

15 min. video by ASCD

How to Conduct Successful Socratic Seminars

15 min. video by ASCD

MAPS

K-8

Continental Learning Cards

7 9x12" Cards

South America

38"x25"

South America Chart Map

OTHER MULTI-LEVEL PROFESSIONAL RESOURCES

K-5

Elementary School Social Studies: Research as a Guide to Practice

Book

Native American Scientists

K-6

Literature Connections to World History

Book

Social Studies at the Center: Integrating Kids, Content, and Literacy

Book

K-8

Children's Literature in Social Studies: Teaching to the Standards

Book

Children's Literature & Social Studies: Selecting and Using Notable Books in the Classroom

Face of our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present

Geographic Literacy through Children's Literature

How to Teach about American Indians

Book

Social Studies through Children's Literature

Book

Strengthening Geography in the Social Studies

Book (NCSS)

Understanding by Design: Wiggins

Performance Assessment in Social Studies Classroom: A How-To Book for Teachers

Book

K-12

GIS for Schools & Libraries, ver. 5

CD-Rom, pc or mac

3-8

Exploring our Country's History: Linking Fiction to Nonfiction

Book

4-8

Critical Squares: Games of Critical Thinking and Understanding

Book

Ancient Rome

Activity Book

Ancient Greece

Activity Book

5, 7, 8

Africans in America: set of 4 videos from 1607-1861 "Terrible Transformation", "Revolution", "Brotherly Love", Judgement Day"

Videos

5-12

Annotated Bibliography of Historical Fiction for the Social Studies

Bring History Alive! Sourcebook for teaching United States History

Bring History Alive! Sourcebook for teaching World History

The New World History: A Teacher's Companion

6-12

African History

Africans: The History of a Continent

Kdg

K.01

What your Kindergartner Needs to Know

Book

First Grade

1.00

What your First Grader Needs to Know

book

Second Grade

2.00

What your Second Grader Needs to Know

book

Third Grade

3.00

What your Third Grader Needs to Know

book

Writing a Country Report

Activity book - located at 6.0

Australia: the Southeast

Video

Classroom City

Interact simulation (binder)

Kid Town

Interact simulation (binder)

Fourth Grade

4.00

What your Fourth Grader Needs to Know

book

Daily Geography

book

Across America, I Love You

book

4 A

U.S. Regions MapPack, NorthEast

Binder, transparency set & activities

Geography of the United States: 5 regional Videos + teacher's manuals - New England, Mid Atlantic, Southeastern, North Central, Mountain states

Videos ea. 15 minutes

Regions of the United States

Laserdisk

4 B

Southern U.S. & Mexico

Mexico

"true" book - paperback

4 C 2-MO

The Show Me Showcase

video & T.E.

Adventure Canada

CD Rom + Resource Guide

Fifth Grade

Number

Title

Type

5.0

GENERAL

What your Fifth Grader Needs to Know

book

Recasting the Past: The Middle Ages in Young Adult Literature

book

Three Worlds Meet: The Columbian Encounter and its Legacy - Study Unit for grades 5-9

Book - study unit

Across the Centuries

Houghton Mifflin Study Guide work sheets

Across the Centuries

Discovery Journal, T.E.

A Trip Around the World

Book - Extended thematic unit

Age of Discovery: from the Renaissance to American Independence

Time Link book

Modern World: from the French Revolution to the Computer Age

Time Link book

America in the Time of Columbus: story of America from earliest times to 1590

Book

World at Time of Columbus

Binder - notes from a course, good background info.

History Alive! America's Past

Complete Unit 25 Interactive Desk maps, 2 lesson guides, 41 laminated "placards" , User's guide w/reading toolkit, book of Transparencies, Internet Tutorial Access

UNIT ONE: THE OLD WORLD

5 A

West African cultures

Wonders of the African World
1. Black Kingdoms of the Nile+Swahili Coast
2. Slave Kingdoms + Holy Land
3. Road to Timbuktu & Lost Cities of the South

Book - with three Videos

Mansa Musa: African King of Gold

Unit of Study w/primary documents

Africon Icons of Power

Illus. Curriculum guide w/20 slides

Faces: The Yoruba People, Nigeria & Beyond

Magazine

Faces: Mali (2 ccs.)

Magazine

Africans in America

Teacher's guide to PBS show

Ashanti Family of Ghana

Teacher's resource guide

Mancala - Game of Africa

Activity

History Atlas of Africa

prof. book, also 6th gr.

5 B

European cultures

Middle Ages

Middle Ages: Castles, Kings and Knights in Shining Armor

Independent Learning Unit

Medieval Times

Thematic unit

Design your own Coat of Arms

Activity book

Kings, Queens, Castles, and Crusades: Life in the Middle Ages

Activity book

Middle Ages: Stories, Activites & Reproducibles to connect reading and writing with social studies

Activity book

Aramco world: Arab Roots of European Medicine

Magazine

5 C

American cultures

History of Native Americans: Indians of North America

book

Faces - Ancient Mexico

Magazine

Faces: First Americans, First Encounters

Magazine

Cobblestone: Cultures of Pre-Columbian North America

Magazine

5.II

UNIT TWO: EAST MEETS WEST: EARLY ENCOUNTERS & EXCHANGES

Voyages of Columbus: an economic enterprise

Binder

Columbus and the Age of Discovery

PBS activity guide - 3 ccs.

Cobblestone: Legacy of Columbus

Magazine

Francisco Coronado: Search for the Cities of Gold

Oasis Mag., 11-12/97, Vol 13, #2

Three Worlds Meet: Origins-1620

Video - U.S. History collection, vol.1

Hidden Treasures of the Sea

book

Sailing to America: Colonists at Sea

book (Troll paperback)

Explorers (Hands-on History series)

book (scholastic paperback)

5 III

UNIT THREE: COLONIZATION AND SETTLEMENT OF THE AMERICAS

Slavery & Freedom

Video-U.S. History coll, vol. 3

Pieces of Eight - 4 Spanish milled Dollars in various pieces

Coins

Blacks in Whaling

booklet (Cobblestone)

Growing Up In The American Revolution

booklet (Cobblestone)

Plimoth Plantation

Video Colonial Life for children 23 min.

French & Colonial Quebec

Video Colonial Life for children 23 min.

The Spanish & Colonial Santa Fe

Video Colonial Life for children 23 min.

SIXTH GRADE

Number

Title

Type

6.00

GENERAL

book

What your 6th Grader Needs to Know

book

Cultural Connections: A teacher resource book for middle and upper grades

book

Everything is Somewhere

book

Everybody Cooks Rice

book (paperback)

Crafts of Many Cultures

book

Basic Skills: World Cultures/World History

book

The Human Adventure: Four World Views (2 cc)

book

Teaching the Five Themes of Geography

book

Cultures workbook: Teacher's anotated edition

book

Geography: The world and its people Vol.1 & 2

book (National Geog. texts)

The Whole Earth Geography Book

book

Africa, Europe & Asia: Interdisciplinary Lessons & Activities

book

Mosaics: Folktales from Around the World

magazine

World Cultures & Geography

spiral binder w/40 lessons

Supplementary unit on Major Religions

spiral binder

180 Days around the World: learning about countries & cultures through research & thinking skills

Activity book

To See A World: World Cultures & Geography (Houghton Mifflin)

T. E.

A Message of Ancient Days (Houghton Mifflin)

Textbook

Writing a Country Report

Activity Book

Arabs & Israel for Beginners

Prof. paperback

6A

AFRICA

African Names: People and Places

book

The Egyptians Knew

book

Tutankhamun: His tomb and its treasures

book

Ancient Egypt

book

Eyewitness Books: Ancient Egypt

book

Into the Mummy's tomb

book

Egypt (New true book series)

book, 2 ccs.

Look What Came from Egypt

picture book

Lessons from Africa

Supplement to middle school courses in World Cultures, Global Studies, and World Geography

Our Global Village - Africa

Cultural Resource Guide preK-3

Ancient Egypt: Literature-Based Activities for Thematic Teaching

activity book

Ancient Egypt

Full color transparency book

Africa: One continent. Many worlds

activity book

History Atlas of Africa

prof. book (under 5 general)

6B

ASIA

Chinese Cultural Activities, Vol. 2

book

The Indian Subcontinent (3 cc)

book

Feeding a Hungry World: Focus on Rice in Asia and the Pacific

book

Letters from Chengdu

book

Traditional Chinese Celebrations: Continuity and Change in Taiwan

book

China - Learning center TE

book

Demystifying the Chinese Language

book

China Mosaic: Multidisciplinary Units for Middle Grades

book

Count Your Way through the Arab World

Chinese American Forum Magazine

Mag - issues Vol XIII #s 2 & 3, issues XIV #2-4

Aramco World - the Dhow of Racing

Mag

Asian Powers of the Pacific Rim

Binder - course notes

Our Global Village - China

Cultural Resource Guide preK-3

China Then & Now

Indep. Learning Unit

6C

LATIN AMERICA

Geography, Culture, History, Politics of Latin America

(binder)

Caribbean Connections: Puerto Rico

book

Caribbean Connections: Overview of Regional History

book

Caribbean Connections: Jamaica

book

SIXTH AND SEVENTH GRADE

6-7.01

Mysteries of the Ancient World

Book

6-7..02

Cultural Conflicts: Case studies in a world of change

SEVENTH GRADE

7.0

A Passion for the Past: Creative Teachng of U.S. History

Book

Beyond the Textbook: Teaching History Using Primary Sources

Book

7.1

EUROPE

Hello Europe

CD - Rom (for PCs)

Eurodisc 99

CD-Rom (pcs or macs)

7.3

Westward Movement

Kit - CD-Rom, transp.,maps, T.G.

EIGHTH GRADE

Number

Title

Type

8.0

A Passion for the Past: Creative Teaching of U.S. History

book (w/7th grade)

Beyond the Textbook: Teaching History Using Primary Sources

book (w/7th gr)

8.01

Opposing Viewpoints: Environment

8.2

Industrialization, Urbanization and Immigration

From There to Here: The Immigrant Experience

book of readings & Teacher guide

8.?

American Heritage History Collection: World War I

Video: 70 min

8.7

World War II

Holocaust

Directory of Holocaust Resource Centers, Inst., & Orgs. in North America 1985

book

Commemorative Observances for days of Remembrance

book

Tell Them We Remember: Story of the Holocaust

book

Smoke & Ashes:Story of the Holocaust

book

Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary

book

Nightmare in History: Holocaust 1933-45

book

Hitler

book

Rescue: the story of how Gentiles saved Jews in the Holocaust

book

Shrinking Circle: Memories of Nazi Berlin 1933-39

book

Hide & Seek

book - fiction

Journey to America

book - fiction

Friedrich

book - fiction

Kindertransport

book

What was it like in the Concentration Camp at Dachau?

book

Raoul Wallenberg

book-biography

Grace in the Wilderness

book - biography

So Young to Die: story of Hannah Senesh

book - biography

Assignment: Rescue

book - autobiography

Night (by Elie Wiesel)

book - autobiography

Anton the Dove Fancier & other tales of the Holocaust

book-fiction

Escape from Warsaw

book-fiction

Rabbi Sternberg, parts 1 & 2

videos (2)

Leo Wolfe: Holocaust Survivor

video

Daniel's Story

video 14 min. US Holocaust museum

8.8

COLD WAR

CNN's Cold War Documentary: Issues and Controversy

book