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http://www.aaanet.org/ The web site for the American Anthropological Association. It isn't very useful, really. Perhaps it is if you pay the really high annual membership fee, $60 for students, $130 for a basic membership. I include it because it contains a link to the New York Times about skull size and race, A New Look at Old Data May Discredit a Theory on Race, The New York Times, Oct. 8, 2002. It's true, the controversial issue won't go away.

http://www.u.arizona.edu/ic/kmartin/School/links3.htm This site serves as a source for native American information, and while all the links don?t work, the ones that do are pretty informative.

http://www.cr.nps.gov/NR/travel/amana/index.htm is a site with information about the Amana Colonies in Iowa. It is a commercial site, but it does have a link towhich one could just go to directly, I suppose . The site has information about the Amish and their settlements in Iowa.

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=434 Another lesson plan fromthis is a literature based lesson based upon Jack London?s Call of the Wild. It meets a number of standards, including, but not limited toNCSS-1 Culture and cultural diversity, NCSS-3 People, places, and environments, NCSS-5 Individuals, groups, and institutions, NCSS-7 Production, distribution, and consumption. Many others. Subject Areas History and Social Studies U.S. History - Immigration/Migration U.S. History - Other U.S. History - The West Literature and Language Arts American Biography Essay. Lesson Plan for 6 - 8.

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/rona/ronatg.html presents a lesson plan about the historicomythical relationship between Hernán Cortéz and Doña María, a mesoamerican woman who translated for the conquistadores. The lesson plan is based upon the story la Llorona by Rudolfo A. Anaya. The site has great links, including one to an Aztéc poetry site. Here?s a sample. Grades 7 - 12.

Where Are the Roots of Men?

Where are the roots of men?
Are they real?
No one can know completely
what is Your richness, what are Your flowers,
oh inventor of Yourself!
We leave things unfinished.
For this I weep,
I lament.
Here with flowers I interweave my friends.
Let us rejoice!
Our common house is the earth.
In the place of mystery, beyond,
is it also like this?
Truly, it is not the same.
On earth: flowers and songs.
Let us live here!

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=434 Another lesson plan fromthis is a literature based lesson based upon Jack London?s Call of the Wild. It meets a number of standards, including, but not limited to NCSS-1 Culture and cultural diversity, NCSS-3 People, places, and environments, NCSS-5 Individuals, groups, and institutions, NCSS-7 Production, distribution, and consumption. Many others. Subject Areas History and Social Studies U.S. History - Immigration/Migration U.S. History - Other U.S. History - The West Literature and Language Arts American Biography Essay.

Time, Continuity and Change

http://www.u.arizona.edu/ic/kmartin/School/links3.htm This site serves as a source for Native American information, all the links don?t work, the ones that do are pretty informative. For historical perspectives, navigate the links!

http://www.cprr.org/Museum/index.html If you want information about railroads and Euro-American expansion to the West, this is a helpful and well-organized site. The site describes itself as a "photographic museum." A button labeled as "Chinese" yielded articles and testimonials to the efforts of Chinese Americans in building the first western railroads. The site owners are quite proprietary of their photographs, but they do have a selection of photographs that students doing homework can download at no charge.

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html From the CIA, this site is the on-line version of the CIA?s World Fact Book. Lots of basic information, including flags, maps, brief historical sketches as well as current information.

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=304 This particular lesson plan is about the Great Depression, and is developed for senior high school. It has a great link to a site about the New Deal. It meets the following standard: NCSS-2 Time, continuity, and change -- the ways human beings view themselves in and over time. Subject AreasArt and Culture Visual Arts History and Social Studies U.S. History - The Great Depression. Lesson Plan for 9 - 12.

This site is sponsored by Kodak, and presents images of the civil rights movement in photographs by Charles Moore, a prominent photographer for Life Magazine. The images are powerful and stark. Alabama, 1963. After being hit from behind and knocked down by a water hose, a woman is picked up and RESCUED by a fellow demonstrator. http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/moore/powerfulFrame.shtml

http://www.cprr.org/Museum/index.html If you want information about railroads and European American expansion to the West, this is a helpful and well-organized site.

People, Places and Environments

http://www.u.arizona.edu/ic/kmartin/School/links3.htm This site serves as a source for native American information, and while all the links don?t work, the ones that do are pretty informative. Also included in Culture and Time, Continuity and Change.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/01/g68/mapmaking.html has a great lesson plan for 6 - 8 grade entitled Crack the Code. It addresses these Geographic Skills: Asking Geographic Questions, Acquiring Geographic Information. Organizing Geographic Information, Answering Geographic Questions and Analyzing Geographic Information. A key item for Crack the Code is a scrap of paper left behind by the thieves. It contains a list of longitudes, latitudes and first letter of city names.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/05/g912/gis.html has a lesson plan for 9 - 12 that meets Standard 5 ";That people create regions to interpret Earth's complexity." It is attractively entitled Regional Layers: Low-Tech Geographic Information Systems and involves the use of simple materials such as transparencies, atlases, and the appropriate markers to create the sorts of map it requires, in this case landform and climate.

Individual Development and Identity

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/19991102tuesday.html has a lesson plan about examining the physiological and psychological causes and meanings of dreams. Lesson plans are for 6 - 8 and 9 - 12.

http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/sci_update.cfm?DocID=70is a site that explores the topic of word associations. It is a science site, but in psychology, the line between Social Studies and Science has a high degree of permeability. Lesson Plan for grades 9 - 12 on Word Connections.

http://www.realgame.org/viewContent.cfm/group/10Transition is the operative word for this program. The Get Real Game focuses on the transition from grades 11 and 12 to post-secondary life. Using highly interactive activities, students strategize ways of acquiring necessary skills, training, education, and work experience to achieve their future goals.

Individuals, Groups, and Institutions

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rjsalvad/scmfaq/muertos.html This site is about the Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead. It also has links to recipes for Mexican cooking, and while they didn't work for me, I thought it was a nice idea, and inspired me to further research. In sociological terms, it explores the development of Day of the Dead activities as a function of religion and spirituality of the fusion of two religious traditions. Sociology. This site appears for a number of standards.

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SSHolocaustFullPlanHS.htmThis site has a lesson plan that teaches how something like the Holocaust could happen. Especially for 11th graders.

Power, Authority, and Governance

This is another multi-purpose site: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html From the CIA, this site is the on-line version of the CIA?s World Fact Book. Lots of basic information, including flags, maps, brief historical sketches as well as current information. Gives brief descriptions of each country or locales governance and structure.

Production, Distribution, and Consumption

http://iberia.vassar.edu/1896/bryan.html This is a great site about William Jennings Bryant, with a link to his famous "Cross of Gold" speech. It contains a brief biography of Bryant, and is just one page of several about Great Leaders and Issues of 1896. I include it here because shifting from the gold standard to the dollar-based standard was a significant event in American economic practice.

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/MathSSRatioAndMarketing912.htm has a dual-purpose lesson on marketing and ratios designed by an Australian teacher. For senior high grades.

Science, Technology and Society

http://www.pbs.org/kcts/affluenza/treat/tguide/tguide10.html is a web site that presents a lesson about consumerism, resource allocation, ecological considerations and more. It's a simple plan, involving watching a video and creating collages. Middle or junior high.

http://www.pbs.org/gene/images/pdf/jwalsh.pdf is a site containing a lesson plans teaching about the implications of genetic counseling and decision-making. For senior high.

Global Connections

http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Social_Studies/World_History/Holocaust/HOL0201.html This lesson attempts to demonstrate persecution of the Jews in Europe before and during World War II. Students will be actively involved in an experiment in persecution and then on research and presentation of findings regarding Jewish persecution . Grades 10 - 12.

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html From the CIA, this site is the on-line version of the CIA's World Fact Book. Lots of basic information, including flags, maps, brief historical sketches as well as current information. It's a handbook, and reminds me of Douglas Adam's Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, except it is humorless.

http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Social_Studies/World_History/WRH0201.htm This lesson teaches students how to use differing media to find answers, and how to compare and contrast those media while researching WWI. For grades 7 - 8.

Civic Ideals and Practice

http://www.archives.gov/index.htmlis the site for the United States Archives and Records Administration. It has copies of important historical documents, including the Constitution, the Emancipation Proclamation and the Magna Carta. It has a page entitled "Digital Classroom," and has a section called "Teaching with Documents." Lesson plans are located there. Cool. Lesson plans are adaptable for middle, junior, or senior high school. Try Teaching With Documents Lesson Plan: Fugitive from Labor Cases: Henry Garnett (1850) and Moses Honner (1860) for middle grades, Teaching With Documents Lesson Plan: Eli Whitney's Patent for the Cotton Gin for senior grades. These particular lesson plans meet more than one standard. The Cotton Gin lesson meets Standard V. B.3: Evaluate, take and defend positions on issues regarding economic rights. The "fugitive labor" lesson plan meets many civics standards -- Standard I.A.3 -Evaluate, take, and defend positions on competing ideas regarding the purposes of politics and government and their implications for the individual and society. Standard I.B.1 -Explain the essential characteristics of limited and unlimited governments. Standard I.B.2 -Evaluate, take, and defend positions on the importance of the rule of law and on the sources, purposes, and functions of law. Standard I.C.2 -Explain the various purposes served by constitutions.

http://www.nytimes.com (Click on Teacher Connections then Archives to find the link. Registration is required.) Vital Voters Educating Youth on Voting and the Electoral Process provides lesson plans for grades 6 - 8 and 9 - 12.

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