Social Studies Academic Content Standards for Ohio

Ohio Academic Content Standards in English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Technology, Arts, Foreign Language, Library

Comparison between Ohio Academic Content Standards and Proficiency Learning Outcomes

History Matters is designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. history. On this site you can find annotated web resources and useful materials for teaching U.S. history, including a reference desk, information on analyzing sources on the internet, and linking the past with current ideas and events.

American Rhetoric offers a dynamic database of public and significant American political speeches, sermons, lectures, debates, interviews and media events, in print and, for some, in short audio clips. Over 50 Hollywood movie speeches are also available as MP3 files. Specific to the Underground Railroad, the site includes Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Frederick Douglass on "The Hypocrisy of American Slavery," and Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I A Woman?".

EDsitement, National Endowment for the Humanities is presented by the National Endowment for the Humanities and brings online "humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom."

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators has a sizeable annotated and updated list of American History websites.

Awesome Library - Social Studies Websites organizes the Web with carefully reviewed resources. In Social Studies, you'll find subject areas for current events, biographies, history, government and lesson plans, among others.

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School has digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government, including supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text.

National Archives and Records Administration is America's national recordkeeper and makes those records available to people who need them. The site offers lesson plans on teaching with documents, for periods of our nation's history, including the Civil War and reconstruction period, and information on conducting research.

American Memory - Library of Congress is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections. Available materials include photographs, manuscripts, rare books, maps and recorded sound.

Ohio Memory - An Online Scrapbook of Ohio History is an online scrapbook of Ohio, a database that is the result of a collaboration of more than 300 Ohio libraries, museums, archives and historical societies. Scrapbooks include History Day and collections related to the Underground Railroad and abolition.

National Park Service provides Links to the Past, a collection of the best online exhibits of people, places and events that provide insight into important historical trends and events, significant accomplishments and everyday lives.

The Valley of the Shadow - Two Communities in the American Civil War details life in two American communities, one northern and one southern, during the era of the Civil War, through original letters, speeches, diaries, newspapers and other records.

The Civil War contains thousands of pages of Civil War material including photos and images, documents, historical papers, letters, diaries, maps, and biographical information on the war between the North and the South.

Africans in America - America's Journey Through Slavery is a companion to Africans in America, a public television series. The website chronicles the history of racial slavery in the United States from the start of the Atlantic slave trade in the 16th century to the end of the American Civil War in 1865. The site is presented in four parts, each with a historical narrative, research bank, and teacher's guide.

African-American Women - Online Archival Collections at Duke University features letters -- scans of the original documents -- from female slaves that provide insight into their lives.

Social Studies Websites - Indiana University is designed for K-12 social studies teachers and students featuring annotated links to information on U. S. History and social studies resources.

Social Studies Lesson Plans and Websites provides an annotated list of a variety history and social studies websites, several of which deal with slavery and the Underground Railroad.

NOVA Teacher Resources includes teacher's guides for each week's programs and video clips online. Programs are listed by topics, including social studies.

America's Story is presented by the Library of Congress to provide American history in an interesting and fun format. Included are biographies of amazing Americans, including Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, and "Jump Back in Time" in which brief stories are told about key events, such as slavery.

Women's History Workshop makes primary sources available in imaginative formats for teachers who wish to use such materials in their own classrooms.

Whole Cloth - Discovering Science and Technology Through American History shows through classroom lessons how industrialization changed America from slave labor to mechanization, and provides essays including one on "Why a plantation?".

American Life Histories from the Library of Congress presents life histories varying in form from narrative to dialogue to report to case history. These manuscripts from the Federal Writers Project can be searched by state or by keywords.

Images and Documents from the New Deal Era is a database from many sources of photographs, political cartoons, and speeches, letters, and other historic documents from the New Deal period of material that was previously accessible only to scholars.

The Digital Library - New York Public Library provides online access to collections of unique and rare materials through searchable archival finding aids, full-text documents, digital surrogates and guides to images, and born-digital materials, including those from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture features manuscripts, archives, images and art illustrating topics such as "Images of African Americans from the 19th Century" and African American Women Writers of the 19th Century.

Xpeditions - Geography Standards in your Classroom serves a variety of needs with lesson plans in a wide range of teaching strategies. The assessment component of each lesson focuses on the knowledge and skills that students will use to answer a guiding geographic question as they address real-world issues.

Internet Public Library provides subheadings for history by region, area and topic, along with historical documents and sources.

Folklife and Fieldwork is a presentation of the American Folklife Center which has a variety of programs that document, preserve, and present American folklife. This site takes you step by step through collection and fieldwork, the supplies you need and how to preserve your collection. Data forms, logs and release forms are also provided.

A Biography of America is a companion site to the video series and telecourse, but the site can be used independently. There are twenty-six subjects or time periods that have a listing of key events of the period, a map relevant to the period, the transcript of the video program, and a "webography" - a set of annotated web links.

Conversations with History includes over 275 unedited interviews, listed by the year in which they were broadcast. Guests include discuss political, cultural and social issue that shape our world, with a focus on individuals and ideas that make/made a difference.

Documenting the American South is a collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. The sources are divided into seven subjects, including North American Slave Narratives; the Southern Homefront, 1861-1865; The Church in the Southern Black Community; and, The North Carolina Experience, Beginnings to 1940.

Great American Speeches features eighty years of political oratory, a history game for greenhorns and one for geniuses, trivia, wordsmith challenge and ideas for teachers, a section that includes lesson plans.

Map Machine by National Geographic allows you to check out the map of your choosing, from themes (population density) to historical maps.

CongressLink has classroom resources featuring lesson plans, WebQuests, online historical materials, and information to assist teachers in using CongressLink in their classrooms.

Federal Resources for Education Excellence - Social Studies Websites offers links to a wide variety of resources on the web for teachers and students, including sites on the African American experience, the Civil War, and key individuals of the Underground Railroad.

Berson, Michael J., Barbara C. Cruz, James A. Duplass and J. Howard Johnston, Social Studies on the Internet, 2nd edition, Pearson, Merrill Prentice Hall.