Curriculum+Resource+Room

__General Social Studies:__
[|Mr. Donn's Resources] Rookie Magazine (an online teen girl-focused special interest mag) Popplet (graphic organizer site) Excellent list of tech tools for social studies teachers Social Studies Resources from Pearson Prentice-Hall Essential Questions/Concept Connector Activities (Pearson) [|Breathing Earth] Terry Hicks - Resources for Digital Writing and Digital Teaching Smithsonian's History Explorer OFCN's Academy-social studies lessons Wiki on creating wikis for your classroom __**Social Studies Textbooks & Supplies:**__ Pearson Prentice-Hall HoltMcDougal Glencoe McGraw-Hill TCI textbooks for high school social studies (Helmsing's favorite!) TCI textbooks for middle school social studies Teacher's Discovery (online shopping for your social studies teacher needs!) Social Studies School Service (imagine Amazon especially for social studies teachers) [|Catan (A board game, that could be a very interesting classroom tool)]

__**For Teaching About 9/11:**__

http://www.learnabout9-11.org/ http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/teaching-911-why-how/ A new documentary film has been released about Fordson High School in Dearborn, Michigan - has anyone yet seen it? www.woundedwarriorsproject.org

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__The Middle East__
http://www.learner.org/libraries/socialstudies/6_8/zimmerman/resources.html The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls A museum in Dearborn, Michigan! http://www.arabstereotypes.org/ [|The Arab American National Museum]

__US History__
[|Zinn Education Project] The History of a Trade School for Women in NYC (cool photographs embedded in story) The new Ken Burns series on Prohibition airs 9/25 on PBS [|Charles H Wright Museum of African American History] As Veterans Day approaches this is an interesting story that plays to both sides of the Pacific during World War II [|Brothers at War]

__World History__
[|Soviet History] [|The Holocaust]

__Primary Source__
[|EyeWitness to History] [|Google Art Project]
 * A digital collection of artwork housed in various museums around the world.

__Sociology__
[|Sociology Through Documentary Film List] Campaign about beauty from Dove products

__Economics__
The Great Prosperity & The Great Regression US Debt Clock

__Geography__
Global Warming video from Greenpeace [|Why Are We Changing Maps?] http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/28/tech/world-population-boom/index.html?iref=obnetwork

__Government__
The ReDistricting Game [|OpenCongress.org]
 * This fantastic resource allows citizens to easily read current bills in the House and the Senate as well as track their progress. The user interface is very intuitive and easy enough for your middle school students to use. There are a lot of great features, such as leaving comments within sections of a bill for discussion, tracking how your state representative and state senators are voting, and the best feature is the easy to use "write your congressmen" interface. CHECK THIS OUT! Great resource for any unit on participatory democracy. ~Scott

Alcohol use videos
 * __Social Issues__**

__**Discipline**__ RTP - a discipline plan (with a RTC room; have to fill out a form reflecting on their behavior -- do students stay there because they want to skip class?)

Section 005 discussed briefly on 9/21 the history of eugenics as a school subject in American classrooms. The legacy of eugenics as a real discipline and the effects of eugenicist thinking could be an important component of a social studies course. Here are some resources: media type="youtube" key="IaH0Ws8RtSc" height="251" width="336" From a 1938 school textbook called "Making America the Best: Steps to A Better Us": "//In every socio-economic group are married couples having qualities of intellect and character that are of great social usefulness, but it appears to be true that a higher proportion of these valuable potential parents are to the found regularly employed in skilled manual professional activities and in responsible business financial posts rather than among the army of the employed and of those doing the lowest types of manual labor. Furthermore, although eugenists no longer hold that children always breed true to the parental type, they do believe—and their is belief is supported by experimental findings—that if a thousand more parents be selected for such valuable social qualities as vitality, health, intelligence, cooperativeness, honesty, initiative and other desirable traits, he offspring of these selected parents will reveal these characteristics in considerably greater numbers degree than the children of an unselected group from the population at large//."
 * __Eugenics__**
 * Ann Winfield's tremendous (and short) book: //Eugenics and Education in America//
 * Julian Cater's bizarre history //The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880-1940//
 * Edwin Black's book War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Rac