Social Studies
Content Area Resources
K-12 Content
MI Open Book Project (K-12): The MI Open Book Project is an initiative funded by the Technology Readiness Infrastructure Grant (TRIG) in which a group of master teachers collaborated and developed an open educational resource (OER) for classrooms around Michigan. It also allows teachers to customize the content to them and their students.
Using Inquiry to Enrich and FurtherSocial Studies Instruction (Dave Johnson - WMISD)
GIANTS Curriculum (3-8): Curricular units include instructional strategies unique for teaching spatial thinking skills through the Arc of Inquiry, hands-on activities, literacy strategies, and best practices in both formative and summative assessment and will be modeled at each session.
Michigan Citizenship Collaborative Curriculum (MC3) K-12: The MC3 curriculum is aligned to the content in the Michigan Social Studies Standards although with the recent revision of the standards in June/2019, much of the coding (depending on the grade) is no longer accurate.
NEWSELA Social Studies (K-12): High quality social studies content - Take the pain out of finding, differentiating, and matching content to social studies standards with engaging and vetted texts, sourced from world-class content providers.
History at Home from the History Channel: free video series with activities of brief history lessons designed to teach, inspire and motivate children
iCivics Toolkit: free civics resources provide enrichment activities and lessons to keep learning going at home
K-2
Pebble Go - Short, audio enabled articles for kids to read (or be read to) about Social Studies and Animals. A great resource that could be used for printables or for kids to explore on their own.