Social Science Digital Resources

If your district does not have a paid account, no worries. Newsela is free for the rest of this school year. Access social studies content, current events, and opinion pieces at various reading levels. Many articles are also in Spanish.

Japan has just bombed Pearl Harbor, and the United States is now at war. Motivated by racism and wartime hysteria, the U.S. government cites national security concerns to justify the incarceration of all West Coast Japanese Americans, regardless of citizenship status and without due process. The Orange Story is based on these events. Between chapters of the movie, explore archival resources that reveal the causes and consequences of this shameful moment in U.S. history.

Texts, lessons, videos for social studies with scaffolds and higher order questions. Uploads to Google Classroom. Free but teacher must create an account.