This Kodak site has twelve lesson plans submitted by teachers from every grade level. Each activity integrates photography into the lesson.

This comprehensive study guide covers the necessary vocabulary and concepts for a unit on animal behavior.

The study resource from Khan Academy provides an overview of Period 6: 1865-1898 in American History. Social Darwinism, Charles Darwin, and the Gilded Ages are discussed in this lesson. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US...

By studying these resources, students will be able to more ably appreciate the complexity of Jane Austen's craft in representing the different classes of early 19th-century society. [PDF]

This course outline offers resources for studying controversial social issues of both the present and past.

When using historical pictures in the classroom, students will need help drawing their observations together to reach conclusions about the lives of people at a particular time. Sets of photographs - along with probing questions and...

Teaching students to read well in areas other than language arts requires teaching and reinforcing the kinds of reading strategies taught here. There are 27 strategies, ranging from brainstorming to word mapping. The site includes PDF...

Lesson for social studies teachers whose students are studying various decades.

This resources offers a framework for the study of this ever illusive and beguiling topic which goes to the very heart of positivist efforts to understand social behavior.

Read this study of socialization, and find out why it is so crucial to human development.

Boundless offers an opportunity to deepen study of personality with this product identifying social-cognitive perspective limitations. Find a reading, a quiz, and a slideshow.

Take a look at how socialization shapes and prepares humans for interactions in their culture.

Text comprehension allows readers to extract or construct meaning from the written word. Students who misread words or misinterpret their meanings are at a disadvantage. Proper instruction can boost students' skills in this key area.

Explanation of Postmodernism as a theory of study. Rather intellectual.

Country Studies offers an article of the social causes and political outcomes of Chinese self-strengthening reform in the 19th century.

The digital revival of the glass plate images of the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I by photographer Sergei Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorskii. Very interesting from both historical and technological points of view.

Distinguishes obedience from compliance and conformity, and looks at Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments and Philip Zimbardo's prison experiment. Factors that were found to elicit obedient behavior are listed, and the impacts these...

Looks at what contributes to the formation of a group, and at three factors that influence a group's behavior, including groupthink, groupshift, and deindividuation. Includes a quiz.

This study resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for the MCAT. "Video Game Usage and Aggressive Behavior" questions are provided on this resource.

Science is a very important part of social progress. But since 9/11, foreign students, many of whom study science and technology in the United States, have had more difficult times of obtaining and renewing visas. This could lead to a...

The resource from Khan Academy and the Association of American Medical Colleges provides study content for the MCAT. This resource provides practice questions related to a passage about marital disruption and divorce.

This instructional activity introduces using the print encyclopedia for grades 3-5. Students are assigned a topic which is selected from their social studies curriculum. Small groups are sent to the reference shelf to select the correct...

A framework for discussing what it means to be a community, based on the principles in the Declaration of Independence and on the values Americans hold dear that form the basis of successful communities.

In this instructional activity, young scholars will examine mass media critically and become aware of how much advertising is around them. They will realize the impact media has on social equality, what people buy, and on culture.