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  Welcome to  

 

The Social Studies PLACE 

 

 

 

 

 Programs, Links, and Content for Educators

 

The goal of this site is to inform K-12 social studies educators about available social studies resources and Arkansas Department of Education updates to benefit you and your students.


             What’s New? 

  

Just a friendly reminder that ACSS will award two $500 grants and six $100 individual awards during the ACC this November!

Take the time now to visit our web site at www.arsocialstudies.orgfor additional information. Applications are available there and are very easy to complete. 

Deadline for award and grant applications is September 30th. 

 

“What Every Arkansas Educator Needs to Know About Common Core State Standards”, affectionately referred to

as the “Lucy” document, has been updated and additional resources have been added.  You can access both excel

and pdf versions of the document on the Common Core page of this wiki.  

 

 

11th Annual National Mix It Up at Lunch Day Teaching Tolerance Opens Registration

 

Mix It Up, sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance project, encourages students across the nation to recognize

and cross these boundaries by sitting with someone new in the cafeteria for just one day.

More than 1 million students across the nation took part in Mix It Up last year.

 

Schools participating in the event can register at www.tolerance.org/mix-it-up/map.

The map shows the location of all registered schools taking part in this year’s activities.

The Teaching Tolerance website also offers an array of free online resources to help school groups and classroom teachers

explore the issue of social boundaries and plan their event.

 

 

51st United States Senate Youth Program

 

 

Application deadline Oct. 5, 2012

Look under Opportunities for Students for more information,

eligibility guidelines, format guidelines, an application,

and the 51st USSYP brochure.

 

 

REACH Grants Available From The Arkansas Humanities Council -

see opportunities for educators for more information and details

 

 

Teaching Literacy in Social Studies with Britannica Resources

Looking for new ways to use promote content literacy in Social Studies?  With the Common Core ELA Standards in mind, Britannica

has many resources to help Social Studies teachers to focus on literacy within their content areas.  Check out the resources page.

 

 

New site for Teachers -- created by David Coleman. 

Great resources for assisting with implementation of Common Core State Standards

for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects. 

Check out Steal-these-tools for great lessons, annotated complex text examples,

and much more. 

 

 

 

Colonial Williamsburg:  The Will of the People

 

from the Electronic Field Trip Series Complimentary Access

from September 1 through September 30, 2012.

 

Click the link above to register.  

 

 

 

This site is managed by the Curriculum and Instruction unit of the Arkansas Department of Education.  Please contact social studies specialist Maggie Herrick at margaret.herrick@arkansas.gov or (501) 682-6574, for more information.

 

If you have additional resources or information to assist social studies educators please contact us with this information.

 

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