This section of the Unit plan can include the handouts, printouts, and the worksheets that you can use

when teaching your unit plan.

Some helpful Web Sites:

WORDLE -- a great site for creating word clouds  - good for Anticipatory sets and teaching vocabulary. 

Tagxedo -- turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text. 

Instruction & Assessment hand in hand  

• The Teacher's Guide
• Puzzlemaker
• 4Teachers
• Tools for Teachers
• Rubistar - creating assessments 
• Social Studies Worksheets Wall - Sign up for the account! 
• AWARDmaker -- helps to create Certificates to celebrate achievements
• Box of Tricks - full of Web 2.0 tools and Internet resources for teachers 
• Second Grade Lesson plans on Money, budget, income, etc. 
• Economics EdWeb site 
• Lizzie's Morning - Where do your clothes come from?
• Barter and Trade Lesson plan 
• Teaching Economics 
• Orange Juice: From the Tree to the Glass 
• A Tale of Three Merchants  -- Trade and Transport
• EconEdLink Current Events 

SmartBoard Resources:

• To view and use activities you need to have Notebook 10 and from Sept 2012 -- Notebook 11 downloaded - top link for Windows.
• Current events with SB 10x10 
• Smart board resources - general
• Smart Board Express -- an Internet version of the Notebook. You can download and work with the files even if you do not have a Notebook software on your computer and then use them in the classroom.  
• Smart board Exchange SS Standards-based lessons
• Social Studies PPT -- can be used with the SMART board
• PPT Games
• Assembly Line Game 
• Interactive Websites
• IWB SMART SS Lessons - ready lessons on different topics of SS curriculum.
• Economics sites 
• Personalizing the Past 
• Discovery Education  - K-8 SS

2013 Social Studies SB interactivities 

2nd Grade Inquiry Unit plan "Got Lemonade?"

Teaching Resources from Beth's Portal:

• Apples for Social Studies
• Easy Test Maker
• ALL Subjects - Web Resources - GREAT SITES!
• Review Games
• Lesson plans, resources and other great stuff
• Google
• Math Games
• Free Federal Resources
• Downloadable Powerpoints
  All subjects
• 21st Century Skills
• Quizzes for Core Subjects
  Pre-made quizzes
• Core resources
• One computer classroom ideas
• Lesson plans
  Ideas and lessons
• Copyright Laws
• Apples for the Teachers
• Teaching about Business: economic growth, profit, etc.

Great resources for all subjects and standards

• http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu//lessons/lessonsK-5.cfm  
• Geography Games
• Geography Awareness Week 

Social Studies Standards (Worksheets)

• SS 2. Time, Continuity, Change: Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of the ways human beings view themselves in and over time.
• SS 3. People, Places, and Environment - Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of people, places, and environments.
• SS 4. Individual Development and Identity - Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of individual development and identity.
• SS 5. Individuals, Groups, and Institutions - Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of interactions among individuals, groups, and institutions.
• SS 6. Power, Authority, and Governance - Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of how people create and change structures of power, authority, and governance.