New York State Education Department
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 11
You'll C-E-R a difference in classroom achievement after using a helpful lesson. Designed for economics, civics, government, and US history classes, participants practice using the CER model to craft arguments about primary and secondary...
PBS
News Hour Extra: Trade Wars the Candidates Take a Stand
A lesson plan that looks at the 2004 election in the United States and the country's economic issues. Which candidate do you think has the best economic policy?
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: Analyzing Functional Relationships: An Equitable Society?
In this interactive, explore data presented in a series of graphs to evaluate whether we are any closer to having an equitable society than we were in 1963, the year of the historic March on Washington. In the accompanying classroom...
Other
Gapminder: Unveiling the Beauty of Statistics for a Fact Based World View
Gapminder collects hundreds of statistics related to global economic, health, and social development and analyzes the relationships between them across different countries and time (a few indicators go back to 1800).
C3 Teachers
C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Globalization
Inquiry based resource for 3rd grade students engages them in exploring the social, political and economic relationships in a global world and increases their understanding of worldwide interconnectedness.
National Network to End Domestic Violence
Nnedv: Women's Law: Domestic Violence/dating Violence
Defines domestic/dating violence, explains the laws against it, and how they can help the abused.
Country Studies US
Country Studies: Honduras
A study of Honduras, describing and analyzing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and examining the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors....
Library of Congress
Loc: Country Study: Spain
This website contains the on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army....
Library of Congress
Loc: Country Study: Ecuador
A report on Ecuador from the Library of Congress "describing and analyzing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and examining the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Grade 6 Social Studies: West African Kingdoms
Students develop and express claims through discussions and writing which examine the impact of relationships between ideas, people, and events across time and place. To accomplish this, they recognize recurring themes and patterns in...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Minding the Gap: Lesson Plan Clips
Minding the Gap is a coming of age film by Bing Liu. Starting in high school, Bing begins to make skate videos. What starts as a hobby ends up as a profound exploration of issues that is likely to resonate deeply with students. These are...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Colonialism
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students identify the Impacts of Colonialism - to include social, economic and political legacies and how these led to civil wars, dictators, and corrupt governments. Students grasp the complexity of...