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Teacher Resources

 * ===Please use this space to share resources with other DELCO Social Studies teachers===

[|CICERO]- history education online resources (primary sources, lessons, teacher training, ect.)

Media on Demand Services
[|Discovery Education]- please ask your school for you passcode [|Learn 360] [|Safari Montage]
 * Directions to access

Center for Civic Education at: __[|www.civiced.org/]__

 * ====excellent source for renewing and/or revising your social studies program to be prepared for the Keystone Exam, either with separate course(s) or integrating civic knowledge and skills in other social studies courses.====
 * ====CCE has: **national standards** for K-4, 5-8 and 9-12; **organizing questions** and **content summary** (cross-grade levels >> spiraling curriculum for Civic Ed.); **glossary** of key Civic Ed. terms====

• __American Historical Theatre__ at: [|http://ahtheatre.org/america/] Historical interpreters perform as famous and common persons of America’s history.
Website Resources – **Primary Sources and Historical Visuals** Here are a few of the prominent websites that have primary sources and historic visuals (artwork, maps, broadsides, prints, newspapers, etc.) that you can use to create lesson(s) on: American history, use of primary sources, using PowerPoint to teach how to analyze primary sources and historic visuals, inquiry and higher order thinking skills, etc.

**+** National Endowment for the Humanities - **Picturing America** (“picture gallery” and lesson plans) at: []

**+** Library Company of Philadelphia – **Visual Culture Program** at: []

**+** Library of Congress – **American Memory** (Classroom materials such as: primary source sets, lessons, visuals, etc.) at: [] then click on __Teachers__ or visit: [] / **Teaching with Primary Sources** training program (online and in-person) at: [] or contact program director Susan Wise at: swise@waynesburg.edu/

**+ Gilder Lehrman Institute** at: [] (See menu bar for: //History// //By Era; Historic Documents; Education//)

**+** PBS **History Detectives** TV program’s teaching ideas and materials at: []

**+ Philadelphia Art Museum** – Teacher Resources at: []

**+ Smithsonian Institution Educators’ Resources** – click on //History and Culture// for lesson plans and resources at: [] plus its American Art Museum’s education department at: []

**+ National Archives** – great source of primary sources about our nation and its history; many methods for teaching with primary sources at: [|www.archives.gov]

**+ National Humanities Center** – an independent institute for the study of humanities has an excellent collection of primary sources — historical documents, literary texts, visual images, and audio material — illuminated by notes and discussion questions at: []

Updated April 2012