History, Civics, and Geography Resources

History, Civics, and Geography featured sites

National History Education Clearinghouse (TeachingHistory.org)

Library of Congress

National Constitution Center (Philadelphia)

National Geographic Society

The National Archives

Digital Inquiry Group (formerly SHEG.org)

Top Links for the NHEC . . .

• Best Practices

• Teaching Materials and Ideas

• Quick Links for Elementary School

• Digital Classroom skills

• Teaching English Language Learners

Top Links for the LOC . . .

• Getting Started with Primary Sources

• Student Discovery Sets

• Primary Source Sets by Topic

• Blog of Ideas for Educators

• Other Blogs @ LOC (find YOUR favorite)

Top Links for NCC . . .

• Constitution 101 Curriculum

• The Interactive Constitution

• Classroom Resources by Topic

• Rights Origins and Travels

• Constitutional Media Library

Top Links for NatGeo . . .

• Searchable Education Resources

• MapMaker

• Explorer Classroom (live events)

• Education Blog with ideas

Top Links at the Archives . . .

• DocsTeach (online tool)

• Educator Resources

• Free Distance Learning programs

• "The Situation Room" virtual

• National History Day

Top Links for DIG . . .

• Civic Online Reasoning lessons

• Reading Like a Historian lessons

• Beyond the Bubble - History Assessments of Thinking

Other Social Studies Sites (as I add them)

• National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)

• National Council for History Education (NCHE)

• Center for Civic Education

• National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE)

• Bill of Rights Institute (Primary Source lessons and activities)

• iCivics Education (teacher resources to go with the iCivics program)

• National Geographic Education (mostly videos of locations/nature)