Teacher Resources

Click here for additional resources to support basic research of Early Explorers

• Best Children's Books: Colonial America

• J.A.S. Townsends Videos on Colonial America

• Colonial Primary Source Documents

• Colonial and Early America Primary Source Documents

• IXL Social Studies | Online social studies practice

• WebPath Express- available through Destiny in your school library

• Britannica School (ask your librarian for a username and password)

• Kiddle

• KidzSearch

• Kids Click!

• Kid Rex

• Kid's Search Engine

• Fact Monster from Information Please

• Library of Congress: America's Library

• Academic Kids

• Connecticut State Department of Education: Social Studies

• National Council for the Social Studies- Resource Page

• C3 Framework for Social Studies

• Social Studies Resources Best Websites

• Teaching with Primary Sources

  • National Archives-Primary Sources for Classroom Use: DocsTeach

  • Library of Congress

  • Using Primary Sources - Teachers | Teacher Resources - Library of Congress

  • Browse Using Primary Sources | Teachinghistory.org

  • Teaching with Documents

  • Reading a Visual Document: Guiding Questions

  • Artifact Analysis Guides

  • Why use primary sources?

• How to Create Document Based Questions-17 Document Based and Constructed Response Questions For Elementary Students (DBQ)

• Teaching History- Elementary Resources

  • Teaching Local History

• historypin.org

  • Short Introduction