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Lessons & Resources

  • Teaching Social Studies (Summer/Fall 2017)
  • Teaching Social Studies (Winter/Spring 2017)
  • Teaching Social Studies   (Summer/Fall 2016)
  • Past Issues of The Docket   
  • Lessons about Sept. 11th
  • Constitution Day Lessons (Sept. 17, 2019)
  • Woman Suffrage and The Great War Curriculum Resource (April 2020)​
Resources for Implementing & Teaching the NEW Social Studies Standards for 2020
The Revised Standards with Disciplinary Concepts
Digital Resources for the Performance Expectations for Social Studies in K-12
Suggested Framework for Standard 6.3 by Grade Level and Course
Digital Resources for the Interdisciplinary 6.3 Standard on Climate & the Environment K-12
The Importance of Teaching Standard 6.3 (video: 40 minutes)
​Digital Resources for Teaching World History (6.2.8) in Middle Schools

New Jersey Lessons for Elementary and Middle Grades
  • Across the Curriculum with Lighthouses
  • Canal Transportation in NJ
  • Colonial Life in NJ
  • Patriots, Redcoats and Spies
  • Democratic Values and Beliefs Sort
  • Early Exploration of NJ
  • Immigration in New Jersey
  • Improving Your Community
  • Lenni Lenape Shopping Catalog
  • National, State and Local Government
  • New Jersey and the Federal Convention
  • New Jersey Geography
  • New Jersey Railroads: Yesterday and Today
  • New Jersey Silk Industry and Child Labor
  • New Jersey Symbols
  • New Jersey Women
  • New Jersey: Crossroads of the American Revolution
  • New Jersey's Judiciary
  • NJ 21 Counties Club
  • Underground Railroad in New Jersey
  • What Happened to the Lenni Lenape Lesson
  • Who are the Lenni Lenape Unit
  • Who can be Governor of NJ?
  • Who Represents You in Trenton?
  • Princeton Battlefield Society Profiles of People at the Battle (#1-6)
  • Princeton Battlefield Society Profiles of People at the Battle (#7-18)
  • Still Waiting (A Children's book about Climate Change)

New Jersey Lessons For Secondary Grades
  • Democracy and Governance in Colonial New Jersey
  • Immigration Policy and its impact on NJ
  • Improving Your Community
  • Innovations from NJ
  • New Jersey Constitution Framework, 1776 - 1947
  • NJ and The American Revolution
  • NJ and the Civil War
  • The Paterson Silk Strike
  • NJ in the 1930's
  • Rockin' in the Garden State
  • Slavery in New Jersey
  • Standard Oil of NJ and Monopolies
  • Prohibition in New Jersey (Monmouth County Library) 

Election Resources​
  • An Ounce of Prevention
  • American Ideals Presentation
  • American Ideals Document Chart
  • Election Logical Standards for Discussions
  • Classroom Activities to Encourage Active Listening
  • Candidate Criteria Chart
  • Using the Candidate Criteria Chart
  • Teaching Elections--Perspectives
  • Campaign Ad Critique (from Education World)
  • Citizens, Not Spectators: (the Center for Civic Education has lesson plans for elementary, middle and high school grades)
  • Eagleton Institute Youth Political Participation Program (information about elections in NJ)
  • iCivics Politics and Public Policy 
  • US Archives (about the Electoral College)
  • Who Can be Governor?
  • Three Branches of Government (Recommended by a teacher at Eye Learning Academy)
  • Presidential Elections in Times of a Crisis 
  • What if Scenarios if the Impossible Happened in the 2020 Election 
  • 26th Amendment  
  • Tinker v. Des Moines 
  • March for Our Lives 

Presidential Libraries
  • FDR Presidential Library and Museum
  • Harry S. Truman Library
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Library
  • John F. Kennedy Library and Museum
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum
  • Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
  • Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum
  • Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum
  • George Bush Presidential Library 
  • William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum
  • George Washington Papers
  • John Adams Papers
  • Thomas Jefferson Papers
  • James Madison Papers
  • National Archives Founders Online
  • Miller Center on the Presidents (Univ. of Virginia)

Psychology Lessons/Sociology Resources
  • Psychology Learning Curve
  • Classroom Activities
  • Encyclopedia of Human Relationships (Sage Publishing)
K-4 Sample Social Studies Units:
  • Kindergarten
  • Grade One
  • Grade Two   
  • Grade Three
  • Grade Four
  • K-4 Framework Questions (NJ Standards)

Grade 5-8 Sample Social Studies Units:
  • Companion Standards for Grades 6-8
  • Digital World History Curriculum for NJ Middle School​ Teachers
Grade 9-12 Social Studies: NJ Standards/Learning Outcomes
  • Companion Standards for Grades 9-10 
  • Companion Standards for Grades 11-12

History Resources:
  • Conflict Resolution and U.S. History Program
  • DocsTeach
  • Eleanor Roosevelt Papers at G.W. University
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony Papers at Rutgers University
  • History Teacher
  • Institute for Curriculum Services (Jewish History)
  • Library of Congress Lesson Plans
  • Margaret Sanger Papers at New York University
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers
  • NJ Digital Highway
  • PBS Teachers: Social Studies
  • "Reading Like a Historian" Stanford University Curriculum
  • Social Studies Assessment "Beyond the Bubble" Stanford University/Library of Congress    
  • TeachingHistory.org
  • The Miller Center (Archives of America's Presidents)
  • Thomas Jefferson Papers at Princeton University    
  • Webquests 
  • World History
  • World History Sourcebook Project (Fordham University)
  • World History Sources
  • Islamic Network Group
  • Famous Trial in World and American History
  • The Uyghur Project Lesson Plan on Human Rights
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