Education

Information and activities relating to U.S. government on pages targeted to different grade levels. Also includes a section for parents and teachers.

Civics pedagogy and lesson plans from the Seattle K-12 Initiative

A small collection of lesson plans about disability history from this online-only virtual museum.

Lesson plans and more from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Organization which promotes "using lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate."

Selected titles recommended by the Association of Jewish Libraries.

Provides primary source and archival materials of American history and culture, as well as lesson plans for incorporating the materials.

Classroom resources and standards from the National Council for Social Studies.

Gateway for teachers and students to StoryCorps: an oral history project with over 250,000 interviews archived at the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress.

Includes lesson plans and strategies for integrating technology into social studies teaching.

A project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Teaching Tolerance has a mission "to help teachers and schools educate children and youth to be active participants in a diverse democracy."