All+things+historical!


 * __Social studies/history resources:__**

Time for Kids-- www.**timeforkids**.com/ This site is the Web companion for the Time For Kids children's magazines and includes teaching resources (games, graphic organizers, printable quizzes, worksheets).

[] This site has information about the N.C. Museum of History as well as about organizing a chapter of the North Carolina Junior Historians. The Funzone section of the site connects students (by age level) to coloring pages, madlibs, on-line games. Funzone also includes resources for teachers and parents. Lesson plan ideas and templates are available.

National Museum of American History Washington, DC []

[] This site includes a brief history of North Carolina from sources available through the State Library of North Carolina.

[] This site provides lesson plans for elementary, middle and high school social studies curriculum aligned with the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.

[] Information about the history of North Carolina provided the North Carolina History Project, a special project of the John Locke Foundation.

[] ("America's Story from America's Library is created by the Library of Congress. Games, activities, and a reading list are added to historical collections featured in the Library of Congress.") My 3rd grader created this Powerpoint presentation on Thomas Jefferson for her biography project.

This Powerpoint was created for use as a tool when teaching the strategy of guided note-taking. The curriculum is 5th grade social studies, the branches of government.

For EDU 320 last semester, I created lesson plans for teaching the branches of the U.S. government (5th grade social studies).

These are samples of guided notes for both the general education classroom and the special education classroom. They are to be used with the "We The People" branches of government lesson above.

The sites below were adapted from the A.B. Combs Elementary School 5th grade weblinks list for social studies: []  [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] []