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Geoguessr

Geoguessr is an independent site that uses Google Street View to test geography skills. The site “drops” the user in a random place globally, and...

Interactive Media Bias Chart

This Interactive Media Bias Chart® is a data visualization that displays measures of news (and “news-like”) articles and sources generated by...

The Social Studies Classroom with iCivics

iCivics is a free, non-partisan civic education tool filled with high-quality, engaging resources for teachers and students across the nation. From...

Google Sheets Timeline Creator Blog from Eric Curts

This blog post includes everything you need to get started using Google Sheets Timeline Creator

Google Sheets Timeline Creator Tutorial

20 Ways to Use Wakelet in Your Class

Learn about Wakelet and 20 ways to use it in your classroom.

Disciplinary Literacy: Developing Fluency in Social Studies Classrooms

This workshop is one in a series of events focused on incorporating the science of reading at the secondary level to strengthen instruction in...

Disciplinary Literacy: Strengthening Vocabulary Instruction in Social Studies

This workshop is one in a series of events focused on incorporating the science of reading at the secondary level to strengthen instruction in...

World History Encyclopedia

Online collection of thousands of world history resources including articles, videos, maps, primary source materials, quizzes, and more.

KidCitizen

"KidCitizen introduces a new way for young students to engage with history through primary sources. In KidCitizen’s interactive episodes, children...

Abcya.com

Motivate students to learn with abcya.com. This site contains fun games connecting to reading, math, and strategy.

Discovery Education: Virtual Field Trips

Take your students on virtual field trips without leaving the classroom. These no-cost learning experiences from Discovery Education come with a...

Civics Standards and Resources

This workshop focuses on middle school civics standards and resources. Participants will review the new 6th-grade Civics standards, resource guides,...

Khan Academy

Are you looking for personalized learning resources for your learners? Perhaps you want to learn how to teach a certain skill, whether you are an...

Sketchnoting: A Mini-Workshop

Sketchnoting is a notetaking strategy in which imagery and pictures are drawn to remember key concepts. Fewer words, more doodles. You don't have to...

Google My Maps

You're probably familiar with Google Maps, but what about Google My Maps? My Maps is an interactive, collaborative map-making tool from Google that...

Econ Lowdown

Econ Lowdown is an award-winning free economic education portal for teachers and students. In addition to classroom management tools, Econ Lowdown...

C-SPAN Classroom

C-SPAN Classroom is a FREE membership service that works with C-SPAN's programs on public affairs, coverage of Congress, non-fiction books, and...

Mighty Moments Links

Mighty Moments are video-based suggestions from the IDOE that families can do at home to help support their child's development during daily...