Additional Resources for K-2 Teachers

Ben A Burnette III

This list of resources is devoted to the understanding of Tennessee curriculum standard 1 for K-2 History.
Standard 1: Students will exhibit a knowledge of history identifying and describing major events, people, and trends.

For more information on Tennessee Curriculum Frameworks, visit the website.
http://www.state.tn.us/education/ci/cicurframwkmain.htm

Yahoo's Social Science Subject Directory -

h ttp://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/
This is a search engine
This site is for use with teachers
This site has an extensive library of web sites that serve the social studies teacher.
There are many useful items for the K-2 history teacher.

Teachers Helping Teachers -

http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/
This site is designed for teachers
It is devoted to the sharing of ideas with other teachers, everything from lesson plans to stress management ideas.
Because of the practicality of using techniques tested by other teachers, this is a very valuable site.

History Matters -

http://historymatters.gmu.edu
This site is a gateway
It has a search engine for use with teachers
I think this is a very useful site for history K-2 teachers.

History and Social Studies for K-12 Teachers -

www.execpc.com/~dboals/boals.html
This site is basically a list of topics and related links thereof.
Mostly for use with teachers.
Offers historical facts and information to aid in teaching.
There is an extensive amount of information in this site, most of which could be used in some way by the K-2 History teacher.

The Virginia Center for Digital History -

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/
This is a portal site
It has an extensive library of multimedia resources for the history teacher.
I would recomend this site for any teacher seeking multimedia resources

The History Place -

http://www.historyplace.com/
This is a content resource site
IT has a search engine
There are lesson plane available

Gateway to Educational Materials -

http://www.thegateway.org.
This site is a gateway
It has lesson plans and curriculum guides for all subjects
There is a search engine

Lesson Plans and Teaching Strategies -

http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/plans.html..
This is a lesson plan site
It has a search engine for that site
It is to be used by teachers

The Learning Network -

www.nytimes.com/learning/
This resource is a collection of newspaper articles. It has a search engine and the articles are geared toward educators.
This site could be used by teachers to help make the students aware of current events and to make them usable in the classroom.
It will show ways to incorporate the material with example lesson plans.
This site is pretty useful for teachers teaching current events, there are many useful things on this site,

Pro-Teacher -

http://www.proteacher.com/
This site is a lesson plan site
It has a search engine that searches only the site
It is for use by teachers

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