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Electronic Resources

Content Lessons Aligned to Framework, OCDE Google spreadsheet

Associations

California Council for the Social Studies website
National Council for History Education website
National Council for the Social Studies website
Organization of American Historians website
World History Association website

Back to School

Back to School Kit, Facing History website
Back to School, Teaching Tolerance website
Diversity Practices for Distance Learning Google document

Book Lists

California Global Education Project: Book Bags website
K-5 Books from the History Project Google spreadsheet
K-5 FAIR Act Pictures Book with Instructional Guidance pdf file
Picture Books for Social Emotional Learning website
Recommended History/Social-Science Books with Read-Alouds Google document
Recommended History/Social-Science Books in the Framework, Tulare Office of Education Google document

California History-Social Science Projects

UCLA website
UC Irvine website
UC Berkeley website
UC Davis website

Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies

Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies, California Department of Education website
Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum website
Facing History and Ourselves website
Global Education Project website
Implicit Association Test website
Lost LA Curriculum website
OC Libraries Stories website
Story Corps, Searchable Stories website
Teaching California website
Learning for Justice website
Zinn Education Project website

Economic Resources

Cal Jumpstart website
Cal CPA Financial Literacy website
California Council on Economics Education website
EVERFI website
Federal Reserve website
Junior Achievement website
Money Smart website
Next Gen Personal Finance website
Pockets Change website
SF Fed: Economic Letters website
SF Fed: My Economy website

Field Trips

Arden: Helena Modjeska Historic House and Gardens video
Heritage Hill Historic Park website
Irvine Ranch Historic Park website
George Key Ranch Historical Park website
Old Orange County Courthouse website
Ramon Peralta Adobe Historic Site website
Historical Yorba Cemetery website
Bower’s Museum website
Orange County Archives website
Orange County Archives coloring books pdf
Orange County Historical Commission website
Orange County Historical Society website
OC Water District website
Water 101 website
Anaheim Public Utilities website
Heritage Museum pdf
National Trust for Historic Preservation - Historic Winterburg website

General Resources

Geography

BioBlitz website
California Environmental Literacy Initiative website
California Geographic Alliance website
David Rumsey Map Collection website
GeoInquiries website
USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer website

Government Resources

Bill of Rights Foundation website
Constitutional Rights Foundation website

OC Middle School Resources Google folder
OC High School Resources Google folder

iCivics website
Mikva Chicago website

History Lessons

Indigenous Histories

Acjachemen/Juaneno History and Cultural Lessons website
American Indians in Children's Literature website
American Indian Education for All website
Arts and Traditions in Everyday Life website
California Indian History Curriculum Coalition website
California Cultures: Native Americans website
Indian Land Acknowledgement Toolkit website
Native American Heritage Month website
Native Americans in the 19th Century website
National Museum of the American Indian website
Pre-Columbian California to the 18th Century website
Teaching California: Bringing the Archives into the Classroom website
Teaching Culturally Responsive Thanksgiving website
Thanksgiving Teaching Toolkit website
The 20th Century and Today website

Local History

California Digital Archives website
California Mission E-books website
Geographic Literacy Lessons website
Lost LA Curriculum website
Mission San Juan Lessons website
Orange County Images from Sherman Gardens and Library website
Orange County Stories website
Photos by City website

Multicultural Books

Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature (annual K-12 lists) website
Schneider Family Book Awards (disability experience) website
Coretta Scott King Awards (African American) website
Pura Belpre Medal (Latinx) website
Tomas Rivera Book Award (Mexican-American) website
Americas Award (Latino) Website
American Indian Youth Literature Award website
Asian Pacific Youth Literature Award website
Sydney Taylor Book Award (Jewish) website
National Jewish Book Awards website
Stonewall Book Award (LGBTQ) website
Lambda Literary Awards (LGBTQ) website
Amelia Bloomer List (feminism) website
Jane Addams Book Awards (social justice) website
Outstanding International Books website
Kokila (diversity imprint at Penguin Random House) website
Make Me A World (Christopher Myers imprint at Penguin Random House) website
Heartdrum (Native American imprint at HarperCollins) website

Museums

Bowers Museum of Cultural Arts website
British Museum website
California Museums website
Heritage Museum of OC website
Japanese American National Museum website
Kyoto National Museum website
Irvine Museum - California Art website
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust website
Louvre Museum website
National Museum of African Art website
National Museum of African American History website
National World War II Museum (Electronic Field Trip) Website
Sherman Gardens and Library website
Smithsonian website
Topkapi Museum (Islamic Art) website
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website
World War I Museum: Educator Resources website
World War II Museum: Educator Resources website

National Government

United Nations website
United States House of Representatives website
United States Senate website
White House website
Supreme Court Historical Society website

Pandemic Lessons

Comparing Pandemics, CHSSP Google document
COVID Journal, CHSSP Google document
The Coronavirus, Animals, and Human Health pdf file

State Government

United States History - Primary Source Documents

American Memory Project website
Calisphere website
Chronicling America website
CSU Japanese American History Digitization Project website
Digital History website
Library of Congress website
National Archives website
National Security Archives (US Declassified Documents) Website
National Women's History Museum website
Online Archive of California website
Oral History Association website
Story Corps, Searchable Stories website
The Freedom Archives website

World History - Primary Source Documents

Collect Britain (Primary Sources and Artifacts from British Library) website
Getty Digitized Library Collections website
EuroDocs (Aggregate of Websites of Sources from Europe) website
Historical Maps, Perry-Castanada Library Map Collection (1800-1900 C.E.) website
Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity Exploring the French Revolution website
Medieval Sourcebook website
Modern History Sourcebook website
Visual Arts Data Services website
World Art Treasures website
World History Matters at George Mason University website