U.S History: Core Curricula

History and Social Studies Web Links

• Core Knowledge Classic Lesson Plans
  

  Free lesson plans for social studies for grades K-8. See my review.

• Federalist Papers and other primary source documents
  

  free online access to the Federalist Papers and other primary source documents from the founding of the U.S.

• Graphite reviews for online games and sites for social studies
  

  Graphite hosts teacher reviews and ratings for online games and websites as well as apps for social studies and other subjects. Free and no registration required.

• Historical Fiction for Children and Young Adults
  

  annotated historical fiction recommendations arranged by time period, geographical, area, and reading level

• PowerMyLearning for social studies
  

  This is a free online site that helps you find games, videos, and software by grade level, subject area, standards covered. You can create your own playlists.

• Social Studies School Service
  

  website with descriptions and links to a number of primary source-based learning resources as well as huge range of other social studies resources in all media formats

• The National Archives Experience: Docs Teach
  

  This site makes primary source documents from U.S. history available and also provides extensive detailed lesson plans for teaching specific topics from U.S. history. Lessons cover only selected topics, so this is supplemental material.

• WatchKnowLearn Videos for History
  

  WatchKnowLearn catalogs hundreds of free educational videos "Wiki-style" in both broad and sub-categories so it's easy to search. There are many sub-categories for history plus a separate section for Social Studies.