Social+Studies

[|Social Studies Links]
==This is a link to the resources in J Gordon's favorites. Some were recommended by teachers, and credited if that is the case. These resources haven't been updated for a long time, but many would still be good resources.==

====These social studies examples of graphic organizers with sentence prompts and other reading strategies were prepared by Jeanette Gordon with focus on older learners.====

[|Ducksters] This site offers links to many subject areas with resources for kids. This link is to Social Studies.
===[|Social Studies for Kids] Social Studies for Kids is a site with articles, subjects, and links for all subjects of social studies, (There are commercials on the site.)===


 * [|Writing in Social Studies] ** **collected by West Virginia Dept of Ed.**

===[|ICivics]Free kid-friendly resources to teach Civics with 16 Interactive games, and other exciting resources. Developed in collaboration with former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.=== ===[|The Social Studies Help Center] An ELL-friendly resource for social studies with fairly simple summaries. See the simplified notes for special education, rubrics, support for research papers, technology integration and links pages with links for the specific social studies courses.===
 * [|Immigration Direct Resources] ** **The Constitution with additional links Rec. by Bella Smart**

**UNITS Need to differentiate for ELLs**
===[|Free Educurios Unit: Mining Personal Histories,] not ELL specific, but the topic is very pertinent to them. Unit developed to help teaches develop units tied to Common Core standards, with Project-based learning and application of 21st century skills. SEE OTHER SOCIAL STUDIES units using the Literacy Design Collaborative templates.=== ==[|Economics 40-plus resources for National Financial Capability Month] By [|Brian Page]== ==[|Khan Academy]Library of FREE videos that covers K-12 math, science topics in biology, chemistry, physics,finance and history. The site includes practice activities with access to hints and a record of student progress.== This resource was recommended by Fareed Zakahri on a CNN special on education. 60 Minutes also did a special on this. ELLs can listen to the instruction multiple times and pause as needed. There is no talking face, rather illustrations of the directions. **SCROLL TO THE DROP-BOX AT THE BOTTOM OF THE HOME PAGE TO SELECT MULTIPLE LANGUAGES.** == [|Khan Academy in Spanish] See 25 languages. This site is seeking to translate all of the resources in multiple languages. This provides powerful native language support to many ELLs. ==