Lesson Plans for Teaching Social Studies and United States History

 

“Our public schools in particular have been the great instruments of assimilation and the great means of forming an American identity.  What students are taught in schools affects the way they will thereafter see and treat other Americans, the way they will thereafter conceive the purposes of the republic.  The debate about curriculum is a debate about what it means to be an American." ________________________________________________ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.  The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society.  New York: Norton, 1993.  17.

 
    As classrooms across the nation become more and more technologically advanced it is important for new educators to involve computers and the internet as a teaching tool.  The internet is a valuable resource for teaching social studies and history.
    Here you will be able to find some ideas for teaching topics in U.S. history.  Our two main goals for these lessons are, to show teachers that other academic subjects can be integrated into social studies lessons through a interdisciplinary approach, and two to show the students' how relevant historical information can be in their everyday lives.
    This web page is divided into the three categories kindergarten and lower elementary, upper elementary and middle school, and high school.
   

Grade Level	Topic	Creator
Kindergarten and Lower Elementary	Civil War Declaration Of Independence	Debra Munn Jeannette Sorrentino
Upper Elementary and Middle School	American Revolution Changing Times in US History	Lisa Silva Jim Tumbleson
High School	American Indians Industrial Era  The Great Depression The 60's	Tae Young Lee Terra Sarnaki-Royer Paul Vernaci Rosemary Dougherty

 
  Presented by the Department of History and Anthropology of   West Long Branch, New Jersey May, 2000