Secondary Social Studies Resources

A searchable database of primary/secondary sources (text, video, audio, etc.), lesson plans, etc. aligned to the Common Core; create a free log-in and site will save resources/lesson plans that you bookmark

The Teaching Hard History Framework provides educators with free access to a large collection of primary and secondary sources they can use as they implement the framework in their curriculum and their classrooms.

These resources will help you bring relevance, rigor and social-emotional learning into your classroom—all for FREE.

Unit plans, full text resources on a variety of Social Studies/ Current Events topics

The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in classrooms across the country. The website offers free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by resource type, theme, time period, and grade level.

Lots of Howard Zinn Excerpts to bring in a lefty perspective of U.S. History

This guide provides an overview of web resources related to multicultural curriculum.

This guide was created to assist multicultural educators in locating educational resources on the Internet. World wide access to multicultural information and current events in other regions makes the Internet an important educational tool.

The Archives holds a wealth of material documenting the Black experience. This page highlights these resources online, in programs, and through traditional and social media.

These educational resources are designed to:
Interpret African American history through multiple lenses
Highlight collection objects and primary source documents related to African American history and culture
Facilitate conversation around the nuanced history of African Americans

This guide takes a distinctly Trans-Atlantic, interdisciplinary approach to the literatures and cultures of Spain and Latin America.

This collection includes lessons, videos, artwork, music and many living testaments from diverse Latinx across the United States. The stories embedded in this collection offer students access and perspectives on topics that directly affect them, their families, friends and experiences as a young person in 2018 America.

New Visions New York Social Studies lessons are designed to consider the historical narrative with at least one lesson per unit focused on a multitude of perspectives. In this case the Revolutionary Period example is linked.

"This article details a national study of U.S. K–12 civics and government state-mandated standards, drawing specific attention to how Indigenous nationhood and sovereignty are represented."

"In this study, the author examined how five white preservice teachers in a secondary social studies teacher education program embodied, wrestled with, and resisted whiteness... Despite prolonged attention to antiracism, participants struggled to disrupt whiteness and white supremacy throughout the duration of the study, which was demonstrative of the complex, interlocking relationship between whiteness and social studies education. Implications for antiracist social studies teacher education are also discussed."