LEE TEACHER RESOURCES: Social Studies Department

GeoInquiries are short, standards-based inquiry activities for teaching map-based concepts found in commonly used textbooks. Using an inquiry instructional model, GeoInquiries integrate ArcGIS Online technology to support subject matter content teaching. Lessons include learning objectives, technical “how-to’s”, textbook references, and formative whole-class assessment items – all packed into one page. These activities are technology agnostic and can be delivered in a classroom with as little as a tablet and a projector. Any teacher can use a GeoInquiry, regardless of their prior experience with digital mapping tools.

A simple search is available for all geoinquiry content as well as Mapping Our World and Thinking Spatially Using GIS.

"The Reading Like a Historian curriculum engages students in historical inquiry. Each lesson revolves around a central historical question and features sets of primary documents designed for groups of students with diverse reading skills and abilities"

Check the Collections withing Lit2Go for audio and print primary source documents of American history, founders, and American civil war.

Students join a “travel agency” to create a travel presentation about their ePals’ location. Designing and creating travel presentations allow students to learn about each other’s location. Discussions throughout this Experience will prompt students to share information and explore the five geographic themes of location, place, region, human-environment interaction, and movement.

Website from the Herb Block Foundation. Includes links to analysis checklists, worksheets, and guides.

Games students use knowledge of Government and civics
All of the games require students to take on a decision making role. To succeed in the games students have to apply their understanding of the rules and functions local, state, or Federal government. Some games require an understanding of the U.S. court system and or the Constitution.

Case Maker is a free service designed for middle school social studies teachers and their students. Case Maker uses primary sources from the Library of Congress as the basis of activities in which students have to build a case in response to real civics scenarios.

This is an Alexa App for reviewing and learning about government.

Offers free videoconferencing and lesson plans integrating art with history.

Suggested YouTube channels for teaching world cultures.

Explore African American history through digital activities on the Smithsonian Learning Lab platform. The activities, or collections, have gathered objects, stories, videos and thinking questions all in one place.

Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1756-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress

TCEA blog post about virtual history walks for teaching Texas History.

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