Social Studies & Cultural RESources

Best of History Web Sites aims to provide quick, convenient, and reliable access to the best history-oriented resources online in a wide range of categories and has been designed to benefit history teachers and their students. With links to over 1,200 history-related web sites that have been reviewed for quality, accuracy, and usefulness, the site also includes links to K-12 history lesson plans, teacher guides, activities, games, quizzes, and more.

Through our immersive storytelling and curricula, we explore the deeper issues facing humanity. Use our award-winning films, photo essays, and essays to learn about social, cultural, and environmental issues from people and communities worldwide. For grades 3-12, our stories and lessons encourage students to broaden their perspectives and worldviews while fostering inquiry, empathy, resilience, and a sacred relationship to our planet. We aim to bring universal values into the lives of educators and students.

We’re committed to providing educators accessible, high-quality teaching tools. Read for some ideas on how you can use our Beyond the Bubble assessments to help students learn the historical thinking skills of sourcing and contextualization. Peruse a list of our history lessons and assessments that ask students to evaluate pieces of visual art. Lists of interactive projects and free publications to help students gain new insight into History and Social Studies.

Smithsonian's History Explorer was developed by the National Museum of American History in partnership with the Verizon Foundation to offer hundreds of free, innovative online resources for teaching and learning American history. History Explorer's resources focus on learning history by "reading" objects for the stories they hold about the nation and its many peoples. Learning activities feature artifacts selected from over 3 million items in the Museum's collections, and draw on the expertise of the Museum's renowned curatorial staff.

Journey through nearly 14 billion years of history in this self-guided, six-hour version of Big History. You'll find every chapter full of great activities to keep you entertained and test your learning. Big History examines our past, explains our present, and imagines our future. It's a story about us.

Voices of Youth is UNICEF's digital community FOR YOUTH, BY YOUTH.

FirstVoices is a suite of web-based tools and services designed to support Indigenous people engaged in language archiving, language teaching and culture revitalization. It is a set of open-source software designed to record and promote Indigenous oral culture and revitalize the linguistic history of their people. Member groups represent over 50 Indigenous nations, bands and other non-profit organizations. The unique 'community sites' they create promote diversity of Indigenous language and culture in British Columbia. Importantly, members retain ownership of content created by them for use on their community site.

Teaching Tolerance provides free resources to educators—teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners—who work with children from kindergarten through high school. Educators use our materials to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants. Our program emphasizes social justice and anti-bias. The anti-bias approach encourages children and young people to challenge prejudice and learn how to be agents of change in their own lives. Our Social Justice Standards show how anti-bias education works through the four domains of identity, diversity, justice and action.

YES! Media is a nonprofit, independent publisher of solutions journalism. Through rigorous reporting on the positive ways communities are responding to social problems and insightful commentary that sparks constructive discourse, YES! Media inspires people to build a more just, sustainable, and compassionate world.

Explore the history of the Cotswolds, England, from it's prehistoric landscape to today.