State & National Standards for Social Studies
History/Social Studies Pedagogy & Teaching Resources
Teaching History with Technology
State & National Standards for Social Studies
Fall 2021 Implementation North Carolina Standards
Visit the NCDPI Social Studies Standards page for links to the following documents (also provided in PDFs below):
- World History Standards and unpacking document
- Civic Literacy (Founding Principles of the United States of America and North Carolina); unpacking document; crosswalk
- American History and unpacking document
- Economics and Personal Finance and unpacking document
- Strand Map
- Glossary of Instructional Terms
*Unpacking documents provide extra information to understand the standards as well as sample topics and assessments. *Crosswalk documents pair new and old standards and help bridge any gaps in understanding between the two sets of standards.
OLD NC Essential Standards for Social Studies; for more detailed unpacked standards use the PDF links below
- World History
- More detailed, unpacked standards for WH
- Civics & Economics
- More detailed, unpacked standards for C&E
- American History I
- More detailed, unpacked standards for AH1
- American History II
- More detailed, unpacked standards for AH2
- For other Social Studies Electives Standards, as well as K-8 social studies, visit the NCDPI Social Studies Standards page.
- Social Studies Glossary of Terms
- Webpage to access terminologies used in the teaching of social studies with definitions and resource links.
History/Social Studies Pedagogy & Teaching Resources
All History
- Stanford History Education Group; Digital Public Library of America; National Archives Document Analysis Worksheets; New York Times lesson ideas; PBS Learning; DocsTeach; C3 Inquiry lessons; Teaching American History; Constitutional Rights Foundation Curriculum Materials; Facing History; Pro-Con.org; Teaching Tolerance
US History
- Teachinghistory.org ; National Archives (Education); Library of Congress (Education); Boundless (History of US Immigration)
- Online Textbook: Locke, J. and B. Wright (eds.). The American Yawp: http://www.americanyawp.com/index.html
- Also: OpenStax, U.S. History. OpenStax CNX. Jul 31, 2018; Locks, Catherine, Sarah Mergel, Pamela Roseman, and Tamara Spike. History in the Making: A History of the People of the United States of America to 1877" (2013). Dahlonega: The University Press of North Georgia, 2013.
- Online Textbook: Locke, J. and B. Wright (eds.). The American Yawp: http://www.americanyawp.com/index.html
World History
- World History for Us All; World History Matters (and its subpages), Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies
- Online Textbook: WikiBooks: The World History Project; see A Survey of Modern European History under "AP Courses"
Civics
- iCivics; UNC Civics Consortium; Boundless (History of US Immigration); The Living Room Candidate; Library of Congress (Civics Teachers); Digital Civics Toolkit; Center for Civics Education; US Census (for classroom); Newseum Exhibit (Today's Frontpage); Voices of Democracy; Constitute (world constitution database); ISideWith; SCOTUS Blog; Annenberg Classroom; Street Law; National Archives; Oyez (Supreme Court Case Archive); Civil Conversation Discussion Guide (CRF)
- Online textbook: Civics Today
Economics
- EconEdLink; Federal Reserve Education Resources; Everfi; North Carolina Council for Economics : course plan resources, teaching resources;
Social Studies
- NewseumEd; NCpedia; SocialStudies.com - Blog; The News Literacy Project: Facing Ferguson
North Carolina (8th grade)
- ANCHOR (a NC History Online Resource)
AP courses
- AP Central - The College Board website
- Online Textbook: WikiBooks: A Survey of Modern European History (AP European History)
- Many AP courses have an online PLC on either Facebook, Twitter, or Google Drive. Discuss getting access to these resources with your CE.
Virtual Professional Development
Teaching History With Technology
- Teachinghistory.org: Digital Classroom
- Teachinghistory.org: Tech for Teachers
- Free Technology for Teachers (by Richard Byrne)
- University of Mary Washington - Digital Tools & Media
- The ASU History/Social Studies Education Twitter account "Following" list