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Social Studies Materials

The Teacher Curriculum Center (TCC) has a variety of resources that can be useful in the teaching of social studies at all grade levels. The following will help you to identify and locate the most appropriate materials for your needs. Both print and media resources are available and indexed by author, title, subject and series in the Library catalog.

Selected Subject Terms

The Library Catalog uses terms from the Library of Congress Subject Headings. The phrase Social Studies is not used by the Library of Congress, and so others must be used when searching through the Library Catalog by subject. Some examples of subject headings to use are:

• Social sciences
• World history
• Economics
• Cities and towns
• Family
• United States - History
• Geography
• Community
• Self-perception
• Self-respect
• Community Life
• Occupations
• Maps
• Explorers
• Citizenship

When using the Library Catalog, use the "Quick Search" option and limit your search to just the TCC.

Supplementary Sources in the TCC

• History-social science content standards
  H 62.5 .S2 2000 grade K-12
  http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/pn/fd/documents/histsocsci-stnd.pdf (requires Adobe Reader)
• History - social science framework for California public schools
  H 62.5 .C26 2005 gr. K-12
  http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/pn/fd/documents/hist-social-sci-frame.pdf (requires Adobe Reader)

Curriculum guides/Lesson plans

Use the Study and teaching subdivision after any subject to find curriculum guides and lesson plans in the Library Catalog. Examples:

• Social sciences - Study and teaching
• Economics – Study and teaching

Curriculum guides/lesson plans may also be found in the ERIC documents collection. Ask the Reference Librarian for assistance in locating these guides.

General Internet Sources

• TEAMS(LACOE) Learning. . .for K-12 Educators
  http://teams.lacoe.edu/
• TEAMS Teaching Circles  (for New Teachers)
  http://teachingcircles.lacoe.edu
• Los Angeles Unified School District Home Page
  http://lausd.k12.ca.us/
• Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE)
  http://www.lacoe.edu/
• California Department of Education
  http://goldmine.cda.ca.gov/

Specialized Internet Sources

• History Matters
  http://historymatters.gmu.edu
  "…serves as a gateway to web resources and offers other useful materials for teaching U.S. history."
• National Council for the Social Studies
  http://www.socialstudies.org/resources
• SCORE History/Social Science
  http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
  "Over 5000 websites aligned to California’s History/Social Science Curriculum."
• This Day in History-The History Channel
  http://www.history.com/tdih.do

Created by Dr. Karin Durán
Questions or Comments: karin.duran@csun.edu