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Remote Learning Resources
General Resources
- Grade Levels: 4-12
- Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
- Price: Free
- Description: Humanities - Content/Assessments, Schedules - Suggested daily schedules for students during school closure
- Grade Levels: 8th, World History, U.S. History
- Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
- Price: Free
- Description: DBQs/modified vocabulary primary sources with graphic organizers
- Grade Levels: 8th, U.S. History
- Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
- Price: Free
- Description: Current Events & eLessons, Institute Curricula - free books for teachers and lessons
- Grade Levels: 8th, U.S. History
- Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
- Price: Free
- Description: Games, Lessons with text
- Grade Levels: 8th, U.S. History
- Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
- Price: Free
- Description: ebooks - Four ebooks with lessons on Political Cartoons in U.S. History, Docs Teach - Interactive/U.S. Primary documents
- Grade Levels: 8th, U.S. History
- Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
- Price: Free
- Description: A.P. U.S. History Content, U.S. History-Videos
- Grade Levels: 8th, U.S. History
- Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
- Price: Free
- Description: Free illustrated U.S. History Books for students/Free teacher’s guide and student activities book.
- Grade Levels: 8th, U.S. History
- Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
- Price: Free
- Description: Great Depression and WWII curriculum and videos
- Grade Levels: Various (see description below)
- Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
- Price: Free
- Description: Explore - Grades 7-12 - Explore artifacts organized by topic, Fun Stuff for Kids - Grades K-8 - Animal Webcams, Activities, Games, History Explorer - Elementary - Lessons, artifacts, primary sources, worksheets, Education Guides - Grades PK-12 - Activities and lessons from the Smithsonian, Choice Boards - Grades 4-8 - Weekly choice boards for Social Studies,Science, Arts
- Grade Levels: Elementary
- Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
- Price: Free
- Description: History Mystery Game - U.S. and World History
- Grade Levels: K-12
- Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
- Price: Free
- Description: Free Access Instructions - directions for getting free access to website for 3 months, Discover Map - World History, U.S. History, Geography, Historical Figures
- Grade Levels: K-12
- Audience: Principals, Superintendents
- Price: Free
- Description: Principals and superintendents must fill out the Experience Access Request form for access
- Grade Levels: K-12
- Audience: Teachers
- Price: Free
- Description: YouTube video on how to create Google Slides Hyperdocs
- Grade Levels: K-12
- Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
- Price: Free
- Description: Articles/Current Events
- Grade Levels: K-12
- Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
- Price: Free
- Description: Civics/Government Lesson Plans, games
- Grade Levels: 3-12
- Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
- Price: Free
- Description: Lessons plans, artifacts, video using the historical and current news
- Grade Levels: 6-12
- Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
- Price: Free
- Description: All textbooks, including sociology
- Grade Levels: 6-12
- Audience: Teachers
- Price: Free
- Grade Levels: 6-12
- Audience: Teachers
- Price: Free
- Description: Inquiry Design Model lessons and activities
- Grade Levels: 6-12
- Audience: Teachers
- Price: Free
- Description: Ideas on how to use their resources with Google Classroom
- Grade Levels: 6-12
- Audience: Teachers
- Price: Free
- Description: Civics lessons you can use on-line or from your Google Classroom
- Grade Levels: K-12
- Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
- Price: Free
- Description: Livestream Programs, Texas History Tuesdays
- Grade Levels: K-12
- Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
- Price: Free
- Description: U.S. government/document games Spanish and English
- Grade Levels: K-6
- Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
- Price: Free
- Description: Children's books on all subjects read by actors.
- Grade Levels: 5-12
- Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
- Price: Free
- Description: Lessons built around TED talks and TED-Ed.
- Grade Levels: 7-12
- Audience: Teachers
- Price: Free
- Description: Resource Guides for 7th, 8th, 11th and ELAR includes lectures from professors
- Grade Levels: K-6
- Audience: Teachers, Students, Parents
- Price: Free
- Description: Lessons, activities, artifacts and other resources
World Geography
All resources below are free for use by teachers, students, and parents.
Africa
- Curated by Gigi Gransden, Social Studies Specialist, ESC 2 Region 2
- Text-Activities and Information
- Geography games using Google Earth
South Asia
- YouTube video: Hip Hughes
- TED Ed-video, assessments, writing
- Khan Academy - on-line lecture with video
- Khan Academy - on-line lecture with video
World History
All resources below are free for use by teachers, students, and parents.
- Divided up by eras/Teaching Units in PDF format
- Lessons based on primary sources/modified documents
PBS Lesson Plans
- Industrial Revolution lesson plan
- The History Project-Lessons on Democratic Revolutions, Industrial Revolutions, WWI, WWII
U.S. History
All resources below are free for use by teachers, students, and parents.
Civil Rights Movement
- Lesson plans, timelines. maps, video
- Civil Rights Toolkit-lesson plans, essential documents, resources
- Civil Rights Then and Now looks at different areas: Voting Rights, Poverty, Segregation. Videos
1970's - 1990's
- Lesson plan: Watergate and the limits of presidential power
- Nixon visits China: The Week that Changed the World-Teaching instructions,video, sequencing activity
- Iran-Contra Affair History Lab lesson
- Rise of Conservatism in the 1980s Teaching Guide
