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General Resources
Grade Levels: 4-12
Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
Price: Free
Description: Humanities - Content/Assessments, Schedules - Suggested daily schedules for students during school closure
Grade Levels: 8th, World History, U.S. History
Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
Price: Free
Description: DBQs/modified vocabulary primary sources with graphic organizers
Grade Levels: 8th, U.S. History
Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
Price: Free
Description: Current Events & eLessons, Institute Curricula - free books for teachers and lessons
Grade Levels: 8th, U.S. History
Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
Price: Free
Description: Games, Lessons with text
Grade Levels: 8th, U.S. History
Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
Price: Free
Description: ebooks - Four ebooks with lessons on Political Cartoons in U.S. History, Docs Teach - Interactive/U.S. Primary documents
Grade Levels: 8th, U.S. History
Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
Price: Free
Description: A.P. U.S. History Content, U.S. History-Videos
Grade Levels: 8th, U.S. History
Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
Price: Free
Description: Free illustrated U.S. History Books for students/Free teacher’s guide and student activities book.
Grade Levels: 8th, U.S. History
Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
Price: Free
Description: Great Depression and WWII curriculum and videos
Grade Levels: Various (see description below)
Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
Price: Free
Description: Explore - Grades 7-12 - Explore artifacts organized by topic, Fun Stuff for Kids - Grades K-8 - Animal Webcams, Activities, Games, History Explorer - Elementary - Lessons, artifacts, primary sources, worksheets, Education Guides - Grades PK-12 - Activities and lessons from the Smithsonian, Choice Boards - Grades 4-8 - Weekly choice boards for Social Studies,Science, Arts
Grade Levels: Elementary
Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
Price: Free
Description: History Mystery Game - U.S. and World History
Grade Levels: K-12
Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
Price: Free
Description: Free Access Instructions - directions for getting free access to website for 3 months, Discover Map - World History, U.S. History, Geography, Historical Figures
Grade Levels: K-12
Audience: Principals, Superintendents
Price: Free
Description: Principals and superintendents must fill out the Experience Access Request form for access
Grade Levels: K-12
Audience: Teachers
Price: Free
Description: YouTube video on how to create Google Slides Hyperdocs
Grade Levels: K-12
Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
Price: Free
Description: Articles/Current Events
Grade Levels: K-12
Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
Price: Free
Description: Civics/Government Lesson Plans, games
Grade Levels: 3-12
Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
Price: Free
Description: Lessons plans, artifacts, video using the historical and current news
Grade Levels: 6-12
Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
Price: Free
Description: All textbooks, including sociology
Grade Levels: 6-12
Audience: Teachers
Price: Free
Grade Levels: 6-12
Audience: Teachers
Price: Free
Description: Inquiry Design Model lessons and activities
Grade Levels: 6-12
Audience: Teachers
Price: Free
Description: Ideas on how to use their resources with Google Classroom
Grade Levels: 6-12
Audience: Teachers
Price: Free
Description: Civics lessons you can use on-line or from your Google Classroom
Grade Levels: K-12
Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
Price: Free
Description: Livestream Programs, Texas History Tuesdays
Grade Levels: K-12
Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
Price: Free
Description: U.S. government/document games Spanish and English
Grade Levels: K-6
Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
Price: Free
Description: Children's books on all subjects read by actors.
Grade Levels: 5-12
Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
Price: Free
Description: Lessons built around TED talks and TED-Ed.
Grade Levels: 7-12
Audience: Teachers
Price: Free
Description: Resource Guides for 7th, 8th, 11th and ELAR includes lectures from professors
Grade Levels: K-6
Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
Price: Free
Description: Lessons, activities, artifacts and other resources
World Geography
All resources below are free for use by teachers, students, and parents.
Africa
Curated by Gigi Gransden, Social Studies Specialist, ESC 2 Region 2
Text-Activities and Information
Geography games using Google Earth
South Asia
YouTube video: Hip Hughes
TED Ed-video, assessments, writing
Khan Academy - on-line lecture with video
Khan Academy - on-line lecture with video
World History
All resources below are free for use by teachers, students, and parents.
Divided up by eras/Teaching Units in PDF format
Lessons based on primary sources/modified documents
PBS Lesson Plans
Industrial Revolution lesson plan
The History Project-Lessons on Democratic Revolutions, Industrial Revolutions, WWI, WWII
U.S. History
All resources below are free for use by teachers, students, and parents.
Civil Rights Movement
Lesson plans, timelines. maps, video
Civil Rights Toolkit-lesson plans, essential documents, resources
Civil Rights Then and Now looks at different areas: Voting Rights, Poverty, Segregation. Videos
1970's - 1990's
Lesson plan: Watergate and the limits of presidential power
Nixon visits China: The Week that Changed the World-Teaching instructions,video, sequencing activity
Iran-Contra Affair History Lab lesson
Rise of Conservatism in the 1980s Teaching Guide
