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D-Tube Video SharingShare Class Videos

Use D-Tube to share your classroom videos with parents and the community. From simple photo montages to morning announcements, D-Tube is your solution for posting videos on the internet.

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Michigan Social Studies Content Expectations

K-8 State GLCEs

State HSCEs

Click here for a grade-by-grade description of the new standards.

Coming soon!  REVISED Elementary Social Studies Report Card!

Resources from the Michigan Department of Education

Resources from The Michigan Council for the Social Studies

 

Implementing the New Standards

MDE Toolkit Resources for K-8 GLCEs

MDE Grade-Specific Resources for K-8

MDE K-4 Overview

Michigan History Studies

Look here for on-going plans and tools various districts and ISDs across the state are developing to implement the new K-12 Social Studies Standards.  These will be updated on a regular basis.  Remember, many of these are draft documents or works in progress.

Michigan Citizenship Collaborative Curriculum A comprehensive K-12 curriculum based on the new Michigan standards

District work: 

2nd Grade - Communities

Lesson plans from Montgomery County Public Schools

Ideas from Washington State

A unit on historical comparisons - Communities Then and Now

Teams of 3rd and 4th grade teachers met to review resources that will help meet the new Grade Level Content Expectations.  Here are some of their top recommendations:

3rd Grade

Geography

Resources from the State

G1.0.1 & H3.0.2  Canoe Routes of Michigan Native Americans - lesson plan

G1.0.1 & H3.0.2  Where did Michigan's first people live? - lesson plan

G1.0.2 & H3.0.1   When Glaciers Covered Michigan - lesson plan

G2.0.1  Michigan Regions

G2.0.2  Michigan Map Skills - Department of Natural Resources

History

Archives of Michigan

The Mitten - Michigan history topics and teacher supplements

Michigan Historical Museum - Virtual Gallery Tours

H3.0.1  Learning about the past - The Hopewell Way of Life

H3.0.1  Hopewell Native Americans

H3.0.2  Glacial Lakes in Michigan - flip book activity

H3.0.3  Erie Canal - song lyrics

Civics & Government

C1.0.1 & C2.0.2 & C3.0.5  Michigan Court System

C3.0.1 & C3.0.3 & C3.0.4 & C5.0.1 Government

C3.0.2  Public Policy

Economics

Teaching Economics using Literature - Popular books

Econ Picture Books from Scholastic

Songs and Posters about Economics Free!

4th Grade

Geography

Maps and map lessons (FREE from Nystrom!)

United States Maps Maps, lessons and activities, state by state

G1.0.3  Kidsgeo.com

G2.02  Great Lakes

History

Archives of Michigan

H3.0.7 Slavery - lesson plans

H4.0.1  Immigration picture books

Civics & Government

C1.0.1 PBS Kids - 18 lessons on how government affects us all  

C2.0.2  AmericanEpic.org

Economics

Mini-Society - Unit I

Public Discourse

P3.1.1, P3.1.2  PolicyAlmanac.org

Lansing - State Capital & Historical Museum Tours

Capital Tours  517 373-2353

Bus:

Bianco Tours   734-946-7021

Trinity Tours     734 284-9229

MIDDLE SCHOOL

For online access for Pearson Prentice Hall materials (World Explorer: People, Places and Cultures), please call their tech support directly:  800 234-5832

 

Grade 6

Economics E3.1

E3.12

E3.12

Economics of Cocoa

Chocolate and Fair Trade - Lesson Plan

Fair Trade Lesson Plans (K-12)

 

Grades 6 & 7

Capstone Projects Clarifications

Teacher and student support sites:

World History for Us All

Portals to the World - World Cultures

World History Matters

Bridging World History

World History Connected

ECHO (Exploring and Collecting History Online) is a directory to 5,000+ websites concerning the history of science, technology, and industry.

The Image Project from Cal State contains over 60,000 scanned world history images

Maps of  War Interactive maps of war, peace, and everything in between

6th and 7th: regions alignments from MCSS

Grade 8 - Foundations for US History

High School:

Support Links & Resources - Allegan County

High School U.S. History:

Digitized Primary Sources

literature connections from Macomb County

World War I Resources:

Library of Congress’ Veterans’ History Project.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/search?query=&field=name&war=world+war+i 

A timeline

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/rotogravures/rototime1.html

Military technology

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/rotogravures/rotomil.html

 The sinking of the Luisitania

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/rotogravures/rotolusit.html 

Pictures as Propaganda

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/rotogravures/rotoprop.html 

Stars and Stripes Newspapers

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/rotogravures/rotoprop.html

Sound recordings

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfhtml/ 

Woodrow Wilson…

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/portrait/wp_war.html 

Armenian Genocide

http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/armenians.htm

World History:

literature connections from Macomb County

World History for Us All

Portals to the World - World Cultures

World History Matters

Bridging World History

World History Connected

ECHO (Exploring and Collecting History Online) is a directory to 5,000+ websites concerning the history of science, technology, and industry.

The Image Project from Cal State contains over 60,000 scanned world history images

Maps of  War Interactive maps of war, peace, and everything in between

2008

Elections

CyberBee's 2008 Election Guide - K-12 lesson plans, activities, and support material.

C-SPAN Classroom provides access to free non-partisan curriculum resources for the 2008 election cycle and beyond. C-SPAN is a private, non-profit company created in 1979 by the cable TV industry as a public service.

By registering for a C-SPAN Classroom membership teachers gain access to a searchable database of video clips, student activities, teacher resources, student contests and periodic special offers like free classroom posters.

GIS Maps of Michigan Election Precinct Results

 

Economics

 

Geography

National Geographic - The Authority!

National Geographic - Kids

Michigan Department of Environmental Quality - Units aligned with GLCEs

My Wonderful World from National Geographic features campaign materials, games and activities, geography quizzes, and ideas for teachers, parents, children and teens to incorporate geographic knowledge and learning into daily life.

Download Google Earth - an interactive online globe with historic map overlays.

Online map resources:

Map Resources

Free Outline Maps from Houghton Mifflin

Mapping My Spot in History from the American Memory Project, Library of Congress

US History Resources

Interactive site about the Underground Railroad from National Geographic.

Go West across America with Lewis and Clark.

Martin Luther King - A site assembled by Pocantico Elementary School

America's Story from America's Library - History through the Library of Congress

ThinkQuest of European Explorers

2009:  Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial

Library of Congress - The American Memory

Library of Congress - Today in History

Lesson plans:

September 11th

Diversity, Patriotism, Freedom of Expression & the Star Spangled Banner

Landmark Supreme Court Cases

Teaching Financial Literacy K-12

Islamic Holidays and Traditions

Political Cartoons

AfriClassical.com

Historical Literacy:  Using Documents

Civics

Federal Government

Presidents of the United States

US Flag

Ben's Guide Interative K-12 activities about government and how it works

White House for Kids

PBS intercative site about voting and elections

THOMAS - Library of Congress site with lesson plans, activities and updates

Dirkson Congressional Center - Lesson plans on how Congress works

National Parks Service

Michigan

Michigan Senate

Michigan government

Social Studies Writing

HistoryFix - Social Studies writing across the curriculum lesson plans

CivicWriting prompts

Civic Writing prompts from Genesee County.

CDV

For resources on Core Democratic Values, check out the American Epic site.

What Are

My Rights?

Click here to go to an interactive site that helps students understand their constitutional rights.

Click here for eLessons, updates, and news from the Bill of Rights Institute.

Lesson plans on law-related topics

 

MDE Resources

Michigan Department of Education

Michigan Council for Social Studies

Learning About Due Process

International Organizations

Authentic Assessments

Federal Agency Resources

FREE, the website that makes resources from federal agencies easier to find. 

All sorts of subjects related to social studies.

Peace Corps

Peace Corps Lessons about folk tales, poems, & letters from Peace Corps volunteers.

AP World History

Suggestions for Further Reading by media specialists from Michigan schools.

 

Local Resources

The Henry Ford

Greenfield Village

Rouge Plant Tour

Detroit Historical Museum

Fair Lane - The Henry Ford Estate

Arab American National Museum

Dearborn Historical Museum

Historical Society of Michigan

 

 

Online Resources

WCRESA Video Streaming

Teachers Domain - Free video streams!

Smithsonian

Marco Polo

Portal Sites:

Image credits
weather map http://geography.uoregon.edu/
globe:
http://www.economics.adelaide.edu.au/images/
people:
ttp://www.iearn.org/civics/images/indexfaces.jpg
star
:http://sf.metblogs.com/archives/images/200
6/-thumb.jpg
pledge
:http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/citizenship
/images/
usciscollage3

 


 

Social Studies

Kathleen McBroom

Teacher Leader

313 827-3078

mcbrook@dearborn.k12.mi.us

What's New?

Support Materials - Trade series and sets

2nd grade

3rd grade

4th grade

5th grade

Abraham LIncoln Bicentennial

Calendar

HIGH SCHOOL READERS!

Check out the National History Club!

The NHC was founded in March 2002 to promote the reading, writing, discussion, and enjoyment of history among secondary school students and teachers by encouraging them to form after school history clubs.

 

    

                                                        

 

 

 

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