Performance Zone 12
All Grades
www.brainpop.com or www.brainpopjr.com
Brain Pop and Brain Pop Jr. create animated, curricular content that engages students, supports educators, and bolsters achievement. Content is mapped to the Common Core and each topic includes a video, quiz, lesson plan and activities. You can subscribe or there is a free video of the week and several free resources.
Mission U.S. is home to three free interactive, immersive U.S. history games on the American Revolution, a slave’s quest for freedom, and Cheyenne’s encounter the railroads.
iCivics provides free lesson plans and interactive games for learning civics. Topics include citizenship, participation, separation of powers, branches of government and budgeting.
EDSITEment! sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities provides teachers with a bank of Common Core aligned lesson plans and educational resources.
Upper Elementary
Reading Like A Historian is an impressive collection of almost 90 U.S. and World History lessons from The Stanford History Education Group. The curriculum engages students in historical inquiry as it revolves around a central historical question in sets of primary source documents for groups of students with diverse reading skills and abilities.
http://beyondthebubble.stanford.edu/
Beyond the Bubble, also from The Standford Histroy Education Group, unlocks the vast digital archive of the Library of Congress to a new type of history assessment. They offer easy-to-use assessments that capture students’ knowledge in action rather than there recall of discrete facts.
http://www.historyofinformation.com/index.php
From Cave Paintings to the Internet documents the history of information and media beginning in 2,500,00 BCE up to modern day. The Google Maps based interface allows for the geographical and thematic study of a topic in addition to historical era and regions.
http://content.time.com/time/video/search/
Time Magazine houses thousands of short videos called Time Explains that discuss current events in the US and the World.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/victorians/Default.aspx
The Victorians: Learn to work like a historian is hosted by the National Archives of the U.K. Following a video guide students can investigate multiple artifacts and take notes online using LACE. By Looking, Asking, Concluding and Expanding students learn to think like historians. Online notes can be saved for electronic submission or printed and turned in on paper.
http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/home
The Google Cultural Institute has multimedia online exhibits on a variety of historical topics including apartheid and the Holocaust.
Understanding the Common Core and Social Studies
http://www.achievethecore.org/page/737/history-social-studies-lessons
Achieve the Core houses lesson plans aligned to the Common Core State Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies for K-12
http://www.commoncoreconversation.com/social-studies-resources.html#sthash.3X3rWVNj.dpbs
The Common Core Conversation is a website that has a growing list of free online resources and lesson plans that align to the CCSS for all subjects including Social Studies.