Social Studies Links
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American Indian Studies Program
The American Indian Studies Program at the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction exists primarily to assist with the implementation of the curricular requirements in the areas of American Indian history, culture, and tribal sovereignty.
The Census in Schools program promotes data literacy and increases awareness of Census Bureau products and activities by providing educators with teaching tools, resource materials, workshops, and other professional development opportunities.
The National Council on Economic Education source of classroom tested, Internet-based economic lesson materials for K-12 teachers and their students.
This web site promotes justice and environmental sustainability for coffee farming communities everywhere. It is sponsored by Green America, a membership organization of consumers, investors, businesses, and communities that work together to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable economy.
WE is a movement that brings people together and gives them the tools to change the world. Whether at home, in school, at the office, or everyday in your life, you have the power to conquer the world’s biggest obstacles.
GoodWeave works to end illegal child labor in the carpet industry and to offer educational opportunities to children in South Asia.
International Education and Resource Network
This site offers projects that teachers and students can tackle with the interaction of other classrooms around the world.
The PBS Kids Democracy Project site can be a useful, fun addition to your classroom during the election year and beyond. The activities and lesson plans you see on the site have been designed with the following goals in mind: (1) introducing the structure and duties of local, state and federal government; (2) understanding how government affects our everyday lives, through laws, institutions and services provided in the community; (3) identifying the duties of the U.S. president and thinking critically about the skills necessary to be a good president; and (4) understanding the history of voting rights in America, and articulating how voting and other forms of civic involvement are essential to a healthy democracy. The online activities are designed for students in grades three to six, with accompanying lesson plans for language arts (LA), social studies (SS), and math (M) teachers.
National Geographic: Education
This web site is offers teachers lesson plans, online adventures, maps and geography, and educational materials for use in the classroom.
Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights
The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights (the Institute) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) human rights organization dedicated to the promotion and defense of internationally recognized worker rights in the global economy. Founded in 1981 as the National Labor Committee, the Institute's research, in-depth reports, high profile public campaigns and widespread media coverage have been instrumental in creating the anti-sweatshop movement in the United States and internationally. The Institute is headquartered in Pittsburgh with regional offices in Dhaka and San Salvador and research/advocacy partnerships in China, Jordan, and South Asia.
Oyate is a Native organization working to see that lives and histories are portrayed honestly. Its work includes evaluation of texts, resource materials and fiction by and about Native peoples; conducting of teacher workshops, in which participants learn to evaluate children's material for anti-Indian biases; administration of a small resource center and library; and distribution of children's, young adult, and teacher books and materials, with an emphasis on writing and illustration by Native people.
At this web site you can discover the good, the bad and the ugly behind the products you buy everyday — from clothing to shoes to toothpaste. It is sponsored by Green America a membership organization of consumers, investors, businesses, and communities that work together to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable economy.
This site is primarily a teacher resource, designed to help teachers teach about tolerance.
Voices of Youth has been developed as part of UNICEF's 50th Anniversary celebration. Through Voices of Youth, you can take part in an electronic discussion about the future as we face the 21st century. UNICEF invites you to discuss how this world can become a place where the rights of every child are protected, that is, the right to live in peace, to have decent shelter, to be healthy and well-nourished, to have clean water, to play, to go to school, and to be protected from violence, abuse and exploitation.