Lessons & Resources
Professional Resources-Journal Articles
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 Grades K-2 New Jersey Lessons for Grades 3-5
New Jersey Lessons for Grades 9-12
Election Resources
Psychology Lessons/Sociology Resources K-4 Sample Social Studies Units:
Grade 5-8 Sample Social Studies Units: Grade 9-12 Social Studies: NJ Standards/Learning Outcomes
History Resources:
- Teaching Social Studies (Winter/Spring 2022)
- Teaching Social Studies (Summer/Fall 2021)
- Teaching Social Studies (Winter/Spring 2021)
- Teaching Social Studies (Summer/Fall 2020)
- Teaching Social Studies (Winter/Spring 2020)
- Teaching Social Studies (Summer Fall, 2019)
- Teaching Social Studies (Winter Spring 2019)
- Teaching Social Studies (Summer/Fall 2018)
- Teaching Social Studies (Winter/Spring 2018)
- 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)
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 Grades K-2 New Jersey Lessons for Grades 3-5
- Early Exploration of New Jersey
- What Happened to the Lenni Lenape
- Colonial Life in New Jersey
- Democratic Values and Beliefs Sort
- New Jersey: Crossroads of the American Revolution
- Across the Curriculum with Lighthouses
- Canal Transportation in New Jersey
- New Jersey's Railroads
- The Underground Railroad in New Jersey
- Immigration in New Jersey
- New Jersey Women
- National, State and Local Government
- Who Can Be Governor of New Jersey?
- Who Represents You in Trenton?
- New Jersey's Judiciary
- 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 and the American Revolution
- New Jersey's First Constitution, 1776
- New Jersey and the Federal Convention, 1787
- New Jersey and the War of 1812
- Slavery and the Underground Railroad in New Jersey
- New Jersey and the Civil War
- Alice Paul and Women's Suffrage
- New Jersey Women You Should Know
- New Jersey's Legislature
- New Jersey's Powerful Governor
- New Jersey's Judiciary
- Improving Your Community
New Jersey Lessons for Grades 9-12
- Democracy and Governance in Colonial New Jersey
- Slavery and the Underground Railroad in New Jersey
- New Jersey and the Civil War
- Immigration Policy and its Impact on New Jersey
- Standard Oil of New Jersey and Monopolies
- The Paterson Silk Strike 1913
- New Jersey and World War I
- New Jersey Political Machines
- Alice Paul and Women’s Suffrage
- New Jersey Women You Should Know
- New Jersey and World War II, The Front and the Homefront
- New Jersey in the 1930s The Depression and the Media
- New Jersey's Constitutional Framework, 1776-1947
- Innovations from New Jersey
- New Jersey's Powerful Governor
- New Jersey's Legislature
- New Jersey's Judiciary
- Civil Rights and Urban Race Riots in New Jersey
- Land Use in New Jersey
- School Desegregation and School Funding in New Jersey
- Rockin’ in New Jersey
- Improving Your Community
- 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
- 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 K-4 Sample Social Studies Units:
- Grade Two
- Grade Three
- Grade Four
- K-4 Framework Questions (NJ Standards)
Grade 5-8 Sample Social Studies Units: Grade 9-12 Social Studies: NJ Standards/Learning Outcomes
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
