Resources We Love

The Nevada Academic Content Standards in Social Studies were revised and adopted, we recommend you bookmark the Social Studies page on the Nevada Department of Education Website to get the latest information and resources from NDE.

  • Project TAHOE reflects the committed work of teachers from Northern Nevada since 2006. The work began through Teaching American History Grants and continues because many Social Studies teachers in our region have experienced the benefits of teacher collaboration and of creating and implementing high leverage, rigorous lessons that engage ALL students in the work of thinking like historians.

    All grade-level lessons are are aligned to Common Core State Standards and to our Nevada Content Standards (NVACs if you live in Nevada).

    Funding for this site comes from the Library of Congress, Nevada’s Northwest Regional Professional Development Program, the Northeastern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program, and Washoe County School District.

  • The Stanford History Education Group is an award-winning research and development group that comprises Stanford faculty, staff, graduate students, post-docs, and visiting scholars. SHEG seeks to improve education by conducting research, working with school districts, and reaching directly into classrooms with free materials for teachers and students. SHEG’s Reading Like a Historian curriculum and Beyond the Bubble assessments have been downloaded more than 10 million times. SHEG's current work focuses on how young people evaluate online content. SHEG has created a Civic Online Reasoning curriculum to help students develop the skills needed to navigate our current digital landscape.

  • The National Constitution Center has resources for multiple levels (including videos, lesson plans, and live sessions) in their Interactive Constitution Website

  • FTE is known nationally for its emphasis on active learning and the engaging activities and lessons used to teach economics. All lessons and programs are correlated with both the Common Core state standards and all 50 standards in economic education.

  • 17 Goals to Transform Our World

    The Sustainable Development Goals are a call for action by all countries – poor, rich and middle-income – to promote prosperity while protecting the planet. They recognize that ending poverty must go hand-in-hand with strategies that build economic growth and address a range of social needs including education, health, social protection, and job opportunities, while tackling climate change and environmental protection.

  • The Nation’s Library Teaching with Primary Sources Homepage

  • The Smithsonian Institution is the world's largest museum, education, and research complex.

  • Find resources about state museums

  • The home of the Nevada State Library and Archives

  • Search the Nevada Library (including Basque Library and Special Collections)

  • Search the Nevada Library (including Special Collections)

  • Founded as Teaching Tolerance, this site offers free resources for educators, articles, guides, lessons, films, webinars, frameworks and more—help foster shared learning and reflection for educators, young people, caregivers and all community members.

  • Founded by Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor iCivics works to champion equitable, non-partisan civic education so that the practice of democracy is learned by each new generation. They work to inspire life-long civic engagement by providing high-quality and engaging civics resources to teachers and students across our nation.

  • United States Capitol Historical Society Resource Library

  • We love the Bill of Rights Institute materials, especially the current events resources as we know teaching about current events can be challenging. Check them out here

    https://billofrightsinstitute.org/high-school-government-resources

  • The creators of Citizen Nation, a docuseries about the We the People program also have incredible classroom resources about civics and more.

    Join their teacher network for even more resources available for free.

    https://retroreport.org/

We the People Resources

Below you will find a few resources we love specific to the We the People program

  • The National Home for We the People Resource Center sorted by Unit

  • Oyez (pronounced OH-yay)—a free law project from Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII), Justia, and Chicago-Kent College of Law—is a multimedia archive devoted to making the Supreme Court of the United States accessible to everyone. It is the most complete and authoritative source for all of the Court’s audio since the installation of a recording system in October 1955. Oyez offers transcript-synchronized and searchable audio, plain-English case summaries, illustrated decision information, and full-text Supreme Court opinions (through Justia). Oyez also provides detailed information on every justice throughout the Court’s history and offers a panoramic tour of the Supreme Court building, including the chambers of several justices.

Project Citizen Resources

Below you will find a few resources we love specific to the Project Citizen program

  • The homepage for Project Citizen

History Day Resources

Below you will find a few resources we love specific to the History Day program