Lesson Plans and Resources for Social Studies teachers
This site provides detail lessons for any teacher who is looking for new materail to use in their classroom.  It provides ideas and suggesitnos for online acitivites or tachers instructing on current events.  It provides a foruem where teachers can meet and discuss new ideas and strategies to use for their lessons.  The lessons range from World History, U.S. History, and Government.  If teachers are stuck for ideas, I suggest visiting this site to brainstorm with other teachers or find a lesson that best fits their lesson for social studies.
3/3/04
http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/

Social Studies Lesson plans
This is a simple plain site to visit that doesn't have color or pictures to distract anyone.  There are only mini lessons listed to give teachers a starting place for their lessons.  Each site provides suggestions to enhance teachers lessons.  Each site provides appropraite grade level so teachers know what lesson to use for each grade.  It allows provides a breakdown on how to use the mini lesson in each classroom.  It's a good site to go to compare what other teachers may be using to start a lesson or gain new ideas to accompany and better the instruction of lessons in the classroom.
3/3/04
http://www.col-ed.org/cur/social.html


History/Social Studies for K-12 teachers
This site offers a menu of different types of subjects and concepts taught in Social Studies.  Once an individual clicks on a subject it will take the user to another site with different lesson plans involving that subject.  All lessons have detail objectives, procedures, purpose, and rationale.  All the lessons range from K-12 so any grade level teacher and access this site and find something valuable to use in their lesson.  It also offers activities that students can complete outside the classroom. It also provides a place for parents to visit so they too can brush up on their History so they can practice with their children at home or help them with their homework.  It's a user friendly site that's easy to access.
3/3/04
http://www.memberscox.net/dboals.html  

A+ Educational Video Rentals
This site is a little different then a site that provides just lesson plans.  It provides suggested videos to show with different subjects that go along with Social Studies.  It also provides suggestions for other subjects, not just Social Studies.  So I would suggest this site for other subject area teachers.  If you type in the subject you teach, it will pull up a list of concepts taught in that subject.  Click on the concept and suggested videos will appear to use for the lesson that are educational and entertaining at the same time.  I liked this site because students tend to favor video and it can be hard to find videos that are apporpriate for the lesson being taught.  The only draw back for this site is you have to have a log-in name because you're renting the videos over the net.  
3/3/04
http://www.aplusvideorentals.com/default.asp

edhelper.com
This site allows teachers to visit the site no matter what subject you teach.  Type in the subject or topic you need a lesson plan for and edhelper will pull up suggested links with lesson plans.  It also provides worksheets, crossword puzzles, or word search dittos that can accompany lessons.  Each lesson provides a detailed step-by-step break down on how to use each lesson in the class.  It provides objectives and procedures that help the teachers accomplish each objective.
3/3/04
http://www.edhelper.com