Social Studies Family Resources
Primary Sources
The Library of Congress - This is the largest library in the world. You can explore the collection from your couch! Check it out today!
The National Archives: Educator Resources - This site provides teachers a variety of resources, from primary documents to lesson plans.
The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Virtual Tours - Educators, students, and families can tour current and past exhibits of the Smithsonian Museum.
Newsela: This resource is available to all teachers in TPS, and students will gain access through their classes. Students will be able to uses this site for research and read primary sources. Each text is available at 5 reading levels and many are available in Spanish.
Stanford History Education Group (SHEG): This site provides teachers with lessons that incorporate primary sources.
C3Teachers: This site is focused on inquiry based lessons that utilize primary sources. The lessons allow for students to create their own understanding of a topic.
Media Literacy & Civil Discourse
Civic Online Reasoning: This site provides teachers with resources that will help students to evaluate online information that affects them, their communities, and the world.
Navigating Digital Information: YouTube playlist that shows you how to evaluate the information that you read online.
Civil Discourse in the Classroom: This is a lesson to assist students in discussions where there are multiple viewpoints in a respectful manner.
Fostering Civil Discourse: A Guide for Classroom Conversations: Digital book that discusses strategies are most effective in helping students practice constructive civil discourse.
Social Justice
Facing History and Ourselves: This site uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate.
Teaching Tolerance: This site helps teachers and schools educate children and youth to be active participants in a diverse democracy.
Teaching for Change: This site provides teachers and parents with the tools to create schools where students learn to read, write and change the world .
Educators for Social Justice Podcast: 9 episode podcast that focuses on race, gender, sexuality, language, and more.
Educators for Social Justice Website: Grassroots teacher-led organization based in St. Louis.