Suggested Resources

United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumTeacher Fellowship, 2008-2009
Lesson Plans Correlated with Tennessee Language Arts Content Standards for 2009-2010
Monnie DeBerry & Duane Eliff, TN Holocaust Commission Teacher Fellows

For more information CLICK HERE

Targeting Cross-Curricular Learning
Integrating Social Studies and Language Arts
Curriculum Standards_Social Studies_Language Arts
To Download CLICK HERE

Annenberg Classroom and Sunnylands Classroom

Annenberg Classroom (www.AnnenbergClassroom.org) and Sunnylands
Classroom (www.sunnylandsclassroom.org) offer classroom-ready civics
education resources from the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of
Pennsylvania and the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands at no cost. A
rich set of teaching aids on the Constitution helps educators and government
employees meet the requirement of the Byrd Amendment to provide materials on
the U.S. Constitution for Constitution Day (September 17). Educators can find
award-winning films and supplementary lesson plans; “Ask a Supreme Court
Justice,” featuring answers from Supreme Court Justices to high school students’
questions about American democratic institutions; state standards-aligned
curricula; in-depth analysis by constitutional scholars and legal experts;
downloadable reference books; and multimedia programs and games.

Tennessee History eKnowledgebase

Now your students have a research library of Tennessee history. This
eKnowledgebase had the complete Goodspeed's History of Tennesee, Ramsey's
Annals of Tennessee and thousands of pages of classical works. They are in
searchable PDF format, with amazing search powers.

This can be placed on any computer in K-12 schools teaching Tennessee
history. Teachers teaching Tennessee history and students taking their courses
can have it on their home computers.
Simply click on the link and it will take a while to download this large zipped file.
Dial-up is too slow to be practical. After it is downloaded unzip and store or
distribute. Be sure to watch the tutorial on searching.
Any questions can be addressed to tcarson@ewkm.net.

https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=aa68d70e-ffb4-437c-b7ea-99237d2bfb65

Tennessee Virtual Archive  CLICK HERE

Tennessee State Library and Archives
http://tn.gov/tsla/educationoutreach/index.htm

Center For Civics Education
http://www.civiced.org

First Amendment Center
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org

Tennessee's Academic Vocabulary
http://state.tn.us/education/ci/standards/doc/WordList_Final%208206.doc

History by the Book:
Language Arts Lessons for the Social Studies Classroom

Holocaust Education
http://www.tennesseeholocaustcommission.org

National Council for the Social Studies
http://www.ncss.org

Tennessee Council for the Social Studies
http://www.tncss.org

Tennessee history for Kids
http://www.tnhistoryforkids.org

Textbook Adoption for Social Studies
http://www.tennessee.gov/education/ci/textbook/txtbkmenu.htm 

For Money Math, Lessons for Life, downloadable lessons for
students on financial literacy.
http://www.mymoney.gov/pdfs/moneymath_lesson.pdf

Hardy A. Mitchener, Jr. Journal  CLICK HERE

Crawford E. Hicks Interview  To Download CLICK HERE

Special Programs
Title: United State Senate Youth Scholarship Program
http://tennessee.gov/education/ci/cisenateyouth/
 

Question: What are the Social Studies requirements for graduation?
Answer: Students must complete one credit in U.S. History, one half credit in U.S. Government, one half credit in Economics and one credit in either World History or Geography. One half credit in Personal Finance is required beginning with the Freshman Class of 2009.
http://state.tn.us/sos/rules/0520/0520-01/0520-01-03.pdf
 
Question: Are changes coming for the Social Studies curriculum?
Answer: There are no major changes coming to the Social Studies curriculum due to the fact that new textbooks have just been written to the current standards. Minor changes in the form and appearance on the website may happen periodically, but the numbering system and content at each grade level will remain the same. Our social studies path and standards were aligned with the national standards of the NCSS in 2002 and it is the intent of the department to have textbooks closely aligned to these standards.