Educational Supplies: http://www.socialstudies.com
    This is a fantastic web site with many items specifically designed for the social studies instructor. Here you can search for subject matter based on specific grade level and subject. This web site provides teachers with new and exiting ideas to incorporate into your lesson plans. For example, they provide books full of primary sources with instructions as to how to teach this material in the classroom and also how to get students to understand these valuable source materials. It also allows you to preview a great collection of videos specifically designed for your topic.
   

     Primary Sources:

• http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/PrimarySources.html

• http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

• http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~borge/MEXICO-VL/mexico.html

    These three web sites provide you with online access to primary documentation, in addition the first address clearly defines what primary and secondary sources are. It also provides valuable information and strategies on how to research primary and secondary sources. The second web site provides primary sources for the medieval period, while the second provides sources specifically from Mesoamerica. These three sites, if integrated into your lesson plans, can definitely enhance the learning experience for your World History students


        Lesson Plans:

• http://www.askeric.org/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Social_St/World_history/index.html

• http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/6-8.html

    If you are tired of your old lesson plans or want to get an idea as what other teachers are doing in World history classrooms? These two web sites provide you with hundreds of lesson plans for specific topics from Rome's rise to Power to the Rise and fall of the Aztec empire. An added plus is that all of the lesson plans can easily be downloaded for free! Many of these lesson plans are created based on the California State Board of Education Standards. If you need access to the Standards, simply log on to http://www.cde.ca.gov/board/ where you can gain access to California's educational standards.