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Social Studies Lesson Plans & Activities

If you find other useful resources please email me at jlaymon@gmail.com & I will add them to this page for other teachers to use.

U.S History

-NEH Lesson Plans

-Trinity University UbD Collection

-LDC Core Tools Library (Create a Free Account then search in the Library for lessons, modules, & tasks)

-Primary Source Resources from Robert Martinez, Dept. Chair at Fox Technical Health & Law

-TEKS USH Lessons & Activities By John Laymon

-CSCOPE Database of Lessons

-NY Regents Exams/Test Banks

-John Green - Crash Course

-U.S History & Gov. Thematic Essay Questions & DBQs

-Stanford Reading Like Historian U.S History Lessons

-New York Times Lesson Resources

-PBS Lesson Resources & Videos (select subject from pull down on center of page)

-University of Maryland Lessons (some good resources under the resource tab)

-Over 100+ Additional U.S History Resources at this page

-AP U.S History Packet of Doom

-AP U.S History Resources

Gov./Civics

-Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics Lessons

-Leonore Annenberg Links to other resources

-John Green - Crash Course

-CSCOPE Database of Lessons

-NY Regents Exams/Test Banks

-LDC Core Tools Library (Create a Free Account then search in the Library for lessons, modules, & tasks)

-U.S History & Gov. Thematic Essay Questions & DBQs

-Trinity University UbD Collection

-New York Times Lesson Resources

-PBS Lesson Resources & Videos (select subject from pull down on center of page)

-Mr. Tyler's American Gov. AP

-Mrs. Newmark's AP Gov. (good reading excerpts and questions)

TX History

-Selected TX History Primary Source Documents

-Texas History Video Library

-Trinity University UbD Collection

-UNT TX History Resources

-Teaching Texas.org

-UTEP TX History Resources

-ITC Exhibit Based Lesson

-TX Beyond History Student Activities

-CSCOPE Database of Lessons

World History

-Stanford Reading Like a Historian World History Lessons

-Trinity University UbD Collection

-John Green - Crash Course

-LDC Core Tools Library (Create a Free Account then search in the Library for lessons, modules, & tasks)

-CSCOPE Database of Lessons

-New York Times Lesson Resources

-PBS Lesson Resources & Videos (select subject from pull down on center of page)

-NYSED World History & Geography (Thank you Coach Ostrowski -Travis ECH San Antonio)

-Over 100+ World History Resources at this page

-SDSU World History for All

-Mr. Millhouse's AP World History

-MrDonn World History (grades 5th-11th, some activities can serve as ideas for making more rigorous activities)

-WHAP Released Sample Questions

-SOAPS Strategy for Reading

-Chart: Change Over Time

-MindSparks Essay Writing Templates

Economics

-Virtual Economics Entire Curriculum & Test Banks (email me with your SAISD email for access) geared towards AP Econ. A preview of the lessons are here, I have the full resource package

-IB Economics Resources

-John Green - Crash Course

-CSCOPE Database of Lessons

-LDC Core Tools Library (Create a Free Account then search in the Library for lessons, modules, & tasks)

-Trinity University UbD Collection

-New York Times Lesson Resources

-PBS Lesson Resources & Videos (select subject from pull down on center of page)

World Geography

-Middle School World Geo. Resources

-Mr. Tredinnick's AP Human Geo.

-National Geographic AP Human Geo.

-Human Geo. Readings & Lessons from Dr. Seiler

-John Green - Crash Course

-CSCOPE Database of Lessons

-LDC Core Tools Library (Create a Free Account then search in the Library for lessons, modules, & tasks)

-NYSED World History & Geography (Thank you Coach Ostrowski -Travis ECH San Antonio)

-Trinity University UbD Collection

-New York Times Lesson Resources

-PBS Lesson Resources & Videos (select subject from pull down on center of page)

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