List compiled from weareteachers.com as well as resources found by Mrs. Vislosky during her time teaching
Help your students determine fact or fiction with the lessons created to help with media literacy. This resource is FREE to use and comes with full lesson plans as well as mini games for students to test their media skills.
"SHP/CML challenges traditional ways that people learn about the past with its print, visual, and multimedia materials that explore the diverse social and cultural histories of the nation. Our professional development seminars help teachers use the latest scholarship, technology, and active learning methods" (American Social History Project).
"This historical atlas of the United States combines cutting-edge research with innovative interactive mapping techniques" (Weareteachers.com).
"SHEG’s Reading Like a Historian curriculum and Beyond the Bubble assessments have been downloaded more than 10 million times. SHEG's current work focuses on how young people evaluate online content. SHEG has created a Civic Online Reasoning curriculum to help students develop the skills needed to navigate our current digital landscape" (SHEG).
Contains inquiry-based lessons and units for US History curriculum with differentiated primary and secondary sources in the activities.
"Focused on high school students, the Big History Project is a joint effort between teachers, scholars, scientists, and their supporters to bring a multi-disciplinary approach to knowledge" (Weareteachers.com)
"Teach a standards-aligned world history course that connects the past to the present, with an eye to the future" (OER Project).
Formerly Teaching Tolerance - contains classroom resources to help talk about tough subjects with students in the Social Studies classroom.
Collection of resources put together by the NY Public Library that includes primary sources in Black history for educational purposes