Grades K-8
How do you teach and assess the Content Standard Indicators?
Content Vocabulary
K-3 4-5 6-8
Instructional Activities for Political Systems
K-3 4-5 6-8
Port of Baltimore Lesson Plans
Sultana Projects – John Smith Unit
How do you incorporate the teaching of reading in Social Studies?
Sample Social Studies Lesson
Grade: 3 5 8
How do you use historical investigations in social studies instruction?
Steps in an historical investigation
Sample historical investigations
Grade 4: Indentured Servitude
Grade 4-5: Charles Carroll of Carrollton's Purchase of English Goods
Grade 4-5: The First Citizen: Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Grade 5: I Declare!
Grade 6: Nubia: A Rival of Egypt?
Grade 7: Alexander the Great: Defining "Great"
Grade 8: Age of Progress: The Transcontinental Railroad
Middle School: Evidence of the First Emperor's Reign
High School: Abraham Lincoln and Emancipation
High School: Jewish Immigration to Maryland (PDF) Word Doc
Audio interviews
Bruce Van Sledright discusses how kids learn history
Marcie Taylor-Thoma discusses historical investigations
Jon Harper discusses his classroom investigations
