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10 YouTube Channels for the Social Studies Classroom
http://www.helpteaching.com/blog/10-youtube-channels-for-social-studies.html
10 YouTube Channels for the Social Studies Classroom
While there are thousands of great videos scattered about YouTube, these are ten channels that house a collection that will improve your lessons and your students’ understanding of social studies.

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Chromebooks in Social Studies
http://www.youtube.com/user/eduatgoogle?v=XEB7AfJklQE
Innovative Chromebook Teachers: Using Chromebooks in Social Studies and Foreign Language

Education, Public Policy and Social Affairs [RSA]
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3A01D5EA87DDE323

Crises of Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0&feature=youtu.be

Documentary Heaven
http://documentaryheaven.com/
Documentary Heaven was set up early July 2009 to provide the public with a vast collection of documentaries spanning across every genre out there.
We intend on continuously updating the site on a daily basis to bring you nothing but the very best.
All of this sites material is sourced from elsewhere on the internet and merely embedded here. None of the videos shown on this website are hosted by documentaryheaven.com nor are any of them uploaded to the internet by us we merely find and embed them for your pleasure.

ReadingQuest: Making Sense in Social Studies
http://www.readingquest.org/
ReadingQuest: Making Sense in Social Studies is a website designed for social studies teachers who wish to more effectively engage their students with the content in their classes.
ReadingQuest is designed to provide you with the philosophical bases for sound comprehension strategy instruction, directions for a range of comprehension and content reading strategies, and printable handouts and masters for transparencies. You will be invited to think about how a social studies skills framework might help you choose the right strategies for your lessons.
ReadingQuest challenges you to think about what students should know or be able to do and, perhaps more importantly, what it looks like when they are engaging the content towards the purpose of that lesson. While designed with social studies in mind, teachers of any content area can find the strategies and the process useful and helpful.

Lesson Plans and Resources for Social Studies Teachers
http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/
Lesson Plans and Resources for Social Studies Teachers
Dr. Marty Levine, Professor Emeritus of Secondary Education, California State University, Northridge (CSUN), has gathered lesson plans and resources from the Internet which social studies teachers will find useful.

The New York Times - Learning Network
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/
The New York Times - Learning Network grades 3 to 12
Ready made lesson plans and classroom activities built on todays news and current events.

Read to Feed
http://www.readtofeed.org/
Welcome!! Heifer International invites you to join in the fun and excitement, while doing something to make the world a better place!
Through Read to Feed? you can help hungry people all over the world to be better fed, proud and self-reliant. Kids! You have the power to be part of hopeful solutions to some very tough global problems!
Read to Feed is about global education, awareness, and action! Children are motivated to read books so they can help impoverished people around the world.

USA Election 2000
http://www.homeworkspot.com/inthenews/election2000.htm
You have to be 18 years old to vote, but young Americans can still get caught up in the election process. The following sites explain how elections work, who the presidential candidates are and what the politicians are talking about.

The Hunger Site
https://thehungersite.greatergood.com/clicktogive/ths/home
Just go to this site and click on the button and someone somewhere in the world who is hungry gets a meal at no cost to you (sponsors pay). The world map also blinks on countires each time a person dies of hunger.

Teaching Social Studies with the Internet
http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed435582.html
Social studies educators are living and working in the middle of a revolution -- the emergence of the Internet as an integral part of education. This Digest summarizes ways that classroom teachers can combine the Internet with other instructional resources and methods.

Lesson Plans and resources
http://www.csun.edu/%7ehcedu013/index.html
..... links to thousands of lesson plans and teaching strategies for social studies teachers of every grade level.