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Awesome Library -- Social Studies

American Memory Project 

Educator’s Desk Reference – Social Studies  Section is divided into categories and also gives lesson plans by grade level

Mrs. Mitchell's Virtual School  Mrs. Mitchell is a Social Studies teacher from New Hampshire. 

National Council for the Social Studies  

National Center for History in the Schools 

PBS Site for Social Studies Teachers

Social Studies Lesson Plans and Resources 

National Archives:  Teaching with Primary Sources Lesson Plans

What are Primary Sources?  Essentially, primary sources are first hand accounts of an event.  Examples may include diaries, photographs, audio files, video recordings, memoires, maps, artifacts, etc.  

Guides to Using Primary Sources

Primary Sources by the Unversity of California/Berkeley Library

Using Primary Sources on the Web Terrific Guide by American Library Association

Selected Web Sites

American Memory Project 

National Archives 

Europeana 

Early Americas Digital Archives  offers electronic texts from 1492 - 1820

Repositories for Primary Sources  from the University of Idaho.  Offers over 5000 web sites from regions throughout the world that link to manuscripts, historical archives and photographs

Discovery American Women's History Online

The FGCU Library has a variety of resources (books, videos, or journals) for Social Studies.  To search for teaching resources for Social Studies, do a search for Social Sciences Study and Teaching as a Subject Heading.  Then, on the left go to the subject area and open it form more results.  You should be able to narrow to the following areas:

• Study and Teaching (Elementary)
• Study and Teaching (Middle School)
• Study and Teaching (Preschool)
• Study and Teaching (Primary)
• Study and Teaching (Secondary)

Here are a few examples:

Childhood Education LB1141 .C5   Current issues in browsing area.

Education Week (Trade)   L11 .E383

Elementary School Journal   L11 .E6 Current issues in browsing area

History Teacher D1 .H8177

Journal of Social Studies Research

Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences  

Phi Delta Kappan LJ121 .P4  Current issues in browsing area

Reading Teacher LB1573 .A1 R28 Current issues in browsing area

Social Education H62.A1 S6  Current issues in browsing area

Social Studies D16.3 .S65

Social Studies and the Young Learner LB1584 .S6365
Social Studies Review

Voices from the Middle LB1631 .V65

The following databases are excellent starting points for locating materials related to social studies topics.    When connecting to these resources from off-campus, you must enter your FGCU ID (14-digit number) before you are allowed access.

1.     Type school textbook collection as a Subject Heading.

2.     Click School textbook collection in the Subject: Topic area to narrow results by topic.  Then click show more which will show elementary or secondary.  If you click show more again, you will get the subject areas.

3.     Or, do an Anywhere search subject + school textbook collection.  For example, health school textbook collection.