Delicious Social Studies Webliography This site,
created by Professor Christy Keeler and her students at
UNLV, is an in depth resource for social studies
websites. For more information, contact Christy Keeler
at
ckeeler@unlv.nevada.edu
Filamentality: This site offers suggestions and
activities for using the Web in the classroom. A few of
these suggestions include: Creating a HOTLIST, or a
TREASURE HUNT, or a MULTIMEDIA SCRAPBOOK!
Kagan Cooperative Learning: Kagan provides
resources for effectively teaching and using cooperative
learning strategies in the classroom.
Plagiarism - Did you know that
you can do a
GOOGLE
Search using whole phrases or sentences to help you
determine whether or not a student has plagiarized
passages in a paper?
Carol Hurst's Literature Site: This site
provides teachers with an opportunity to view books
sorted by subject area. It also provides additional
information for some books such as lesson plans and
activities, and related professional books and links.
Content Literacy in the Social Studies Classroom:
This site briefly explains the importance of teaching
and using literacy skills in social studies classroom.
It also provides a listing of valuable sites to help
teachers with this task.
Content Literacy Strategies: History/Social
Science This site provides over 30 strategies and
activities for teaching historical and social science
analysis skills through literature.
Improving Literacy Skills in the Social Studies
Classroom: This short article focuses on
recognizing the difficulties students may have in
reading social studies specific content and how to teach
strategies designed to help students overcome the
difficulties.
ReadingQuest: Making Sense in Social Studies:
This webquest is designed for social studies teachers
who wish to engage their students with the content in
their classes.
Reading Strategies for the Social Studies Classroom:
This site provides practical, easy to follow strategies
for teaching students how to read in the content area.
Teaching Reading in Social Studies: This book
offers 32 different strategies that help improve social
studies learning and achievement.
Using Literature to Teach Geography in High Schools:
The author if this article argues for the importance of
using literature in the geography classroom, and
provides an example of how The Grapes of Wrath could be
integrated in the geography curriculum.
