Grades 9 - 12 Social Studies Websites

• Contemporary Economics
  Official information site for our new Economics Adoption.
• Virtual Stock Exchange
  Welcome to Virtual Stock Exchange, a free online trading game from MarketWatch.
• National Council for Economic Education
  The National Council on Economic Education (NCEE) is a nationwide network that leads in promoting economic literacy with students.
• The Mises Institute
  Advancing the Scholarship of Liberty of the Austrian School of Economics

• Magruder's American Government (Companion site for adopted textbook)
• American Government and Politics Today (AP Text companion site)
• Classroom Law Project
  There are many great resources here including lesson plans created by PPS teachers.
• NewsHour Extra's Teacher Resources
  Teacher created lesson plans.
• High School Curriculum on the Judiciary
  Register and get access to great teacher created lesson plans etc.
• Oregon State Elections Division
• High School Curriculum on the Judiciary
  Welcome to this interactive addition to the American Judicature Society's website.
• View maps that keep track of the electoral college potential vote on Electoral-Vote.com updated daily
• Supreme Court DBQ's: Exploring the Cases that Changed History
  Supreme Court cases offer teachers a unique opportunity to present their students with constitutional issues in a fuller context than textbooks and other educational resources offer.
• The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2004 is an exhibition featuring more than 250 campaign commercials from every presidential election since 1952.

• Modern World History: Patterns of Interaction
  Resources site for our new adoption. First time visitors will need to click the teacher toolkit link and use the code on the inside of the teacher's edition to get a username and password.
• TCI History Alive Modern World History Resources - Documents, Transparencies, Audio Files, its all here.
• Modern History Sourcebook
  This is a well organized set of resources that includes a a wide variety of primary and secondary sources and guides for exploring them.
• Modern World History
  This is a clearinghouse of many modern world history resources. It is very well organized.
• Bridging World History: Professional development and classroom materials to support the study of world history. Bridging World History is organized into 26 thematic units. Videos, an audio glossary and a thematically-organized interactive. along a chronological thread. Materials include videos, an audio glossary and a thematically-organized interactive.
• Resources for Modern World History Students
• Amazing Grace: The Movie
  Slavery outlawed in Great Britain! The educators guide on this web site has 12 related lesson plans/activities.
• Timeline index
  A Great timeline index. Look for people, events, inventions etc. in an historic context
• Mercy Corps Action Center and Online Teaching Resources

U.S. History

• Pursuing American Ideals (Our Adopted U.S. History Text) - Companion site that includes technology support, enrichment resources, and discussion groups.
• The American Pageant: A History of the Republic (AP U.S. History Adoption) Student and Teacher Resources
• The Authentic History Center
  Primary Sources from American Popular Culture.
• Great Debates in American History: The Great Debates feature consists of 12 debates, one for every unit of the text. Each of these debates contains an introduction that states the topic of the debate, examines the background of this issue, provides information about both the readings and the debaters, and discusses the debate topic from a contemporary perspective.
• Oregon, Life on the Home Front
  Welcome to Life on the Home Front, an exhibit and learning resource exploring the experiences of Oregonians in World War II.
• Dr. Seuss Goes to War
  A catalog of political cartoons by Dr. Seuse.
• Angel Island Immigration Foundation
  The immigration experience is a common thread binding the histories of most Americans.
• Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
  The Gilder Lehrman Institute offers a growing variety of resources to assist teachers and students.
• Picturing Modern America
  Historical thinking exercises for middle and high school students. Practice doing history the way historians do.
• History Matters
  History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers.
• Teaching About Japanese American Internment
  A 3-week integrated language arts and history unit developed by Marilyn and Dave Forrest from James Logan High School in the Bay Area.
• Teaching About Jazz Resources
  Links to numerous related sites, etc.
• American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920
  From the Library of Congress, this site comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors.
• Historic maps in K-12 Classrooms
  This resource for K-12 teachers and students developed by the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography.
• American Rhetoric
  Index to and growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.
• The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2004 is an exhibition featuring more than 250 campaign commercials from every presidential election since 1952.

• The Authentic History Center
  Primary Sources from American Popular Culture.
• Picturing Modern America
  Historical thinking exercises for middle and high school students. Practice doing history the way historians do.
• Oregon, Life on the Home Front
  Welcome to Life on the Home Front, an exhibit and learning resource exploring the experiences of Oregonians in World War II.
• Dr. Seuss Goes to War
  A catalog of political cartoons by Dr. Seuse.
• FOR TEACHERS: Minding their DBQs.
  Tips for helping your students master Document-Based Questions.
• DBQ Teaching with Documents by Peter Pappas
  There are some great examples and ideas here. This is from New York State and has DBQ examples from 2nd to 11th Grade.
• Document-Based Question (DBQ) Project Page
  This is a great sampling of H.S. DBQs with student essays.
• The National Archives Education Resources
  The Teaching With Documents Lesson Plans are great!
• Oregon Historic Photograph Collections
• 100 Milestone Documents of U.S. History
• Primary Source Materials & Document Based Questions
  An Internet Hotlist on Document Based Questions.
• Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
  From the The Avalon Project at Yale Law School this site has an amazing archive of primary resource documents.
• Oregon Document Depository
  Documents that changed Oregon is amazing. For 100 years, the State Library, depository libraries, and state agencies have made information about our state government available to citizens, and have preserved it for future generations. The Initiative and Referendum section under.

• Perry-Castañeda Library
  Very Comprehensive map collection.
• U.S. Census Bureau
  All the U.S. Demographic data you need.
• Oregon Geographic Alliance
  Teacher institutes, great teacher produced lessons and more.
• Portlandmaps.com
  This is a great resource to find out almost anything about Portland human geography. Crime rates, individual crimes, property values, and more.
• Gapminder
  Take a look. Great graphic and cartographic representations of global demographic data.
• Maps of War
  These animated maps are fantastic. Not just about war, these maps will captivate students and teachers.

• Discovery Education Streaming
• Rich video and online resources.
• NewsHour Extra's Teacher Resources
  Each NewsHour Extra story comes with a short lesson plan that includes initiating questions, a reading comprehension printout, and more.
• Librivox
  This site provides free audiobooks from the public domain. There are several options for listening. The first step is to get the .mp3 or .ogg files into your own computer.