Social Studies Lesson
Plans!
by
Lauren Day-Lewis
SLM 521
Fall 2004
Elective
Introduction: This page lists great websites that contain
lesson plans for social studies teachers. All of the lesson plans at
the sites listed below are free, too!
Social Studies Lesson Plans and
Resources
This site offers ideas for Social Studies lessons and teaching strategies.
It includes a Webquest page with links to training information and Web-based
lesson plans and activities developed by teachers from many different states,
as well. There are 95 lesson plans on this site, including, but not
limited to, lessons on government, civil rights, women's suffrage, the legal
system, and economics. This entire site is great for secondary social
studies teachers!
11/5/04
http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/
Educator's
Reference Desk
At this site, you will find a variety of lesson plans for subjects including
psychology, sociology, government, etc. When you click on a subject,
such as U.S. history or World history, you will see a list of lesson plans.
Most of the lesson plans are appropriate for middle school or high school
studies.
11/3/04
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Social_Studies
Discovery School
This site provides K-12 teachers with a variety of topics to use or include
in their lessons. There are a great amount of topics concerning contemporary
studies, American history, and World history for 9th-12th grade teachers.
The contemporary studies lesson plans are my favorite because they include
topics such as Understanding Stereotypes, Culture and Obesity, and Human
Rights! If you go to DiscoverySchool.com you can browse lesson plans
by grade or by subject.
11/5/04
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/9-12.html
Sites
for Teachers: Social Studies
Lesson plans at this site are suitable for social studies classes of all grade
levels. Here, you can search by grade level and even find a variety
of thematic lesson plans including topics such as Inventions, Media, Native
Americans, Map Skills, etc. Also, this site offers a link where teachers
can share lesson plans.
11/5/04
http://www.sitesforteachers.com/resources_sharp/socialstudies.html
Social Studies Lesson Plans
Although this site is not very colorful, it does have an long list of social
studies lesson plans for K-12 teachers. By scrolling down the page and
reading the titles of the lessons, you will find that this page contains a
lot of very interesting topics and activities, too!
11/4/04
http://www.col-ed.org/cur/social.html