Student Resources
Parent Resources
Teacher Resources

Student Resources

The Library of Congress: American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

The Colorado Historical Society Library
http://www.coloradohistory.org/chs_library/library.htm

The National Geographic Society
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

Colorado-The Official State Web Portal: Student Research and Resources
http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/CO-Portal/CXP/Page/1174084100426/1165693060239

The National Constitution Center: Student Resources
http://www.constitutioncenter.org/ncc_edu_Students.aspx

The Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary: Education & Resources
http://www.benfranklin300.org/etc_index.htm

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: History by Era
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/institute/era_founding.php

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: Historic Documents
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/

The National WWII Museum: Student Resources
http://www.nationalww2museum.org/education/for-students/

The White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov/

The National Archives:  Student Information
http://www.archives.gov/education/

The National Archives: Reproducible copies of Primary Documents
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
http://www.pulitzercenter.org/

C-SPAN Classroom (watch live debate in the Legislative section)
http://www.c-spanclassroom.org/Default.aspx

Service and Civic Participation
United Way of Larimer County
http://www.uwaylc.org/

Parent Resources

The following organizations support quality social studies education through professional development and resources.  These organizations' websites provide a wide array of information about social studies education, from best practices to policy.

Colorado Department of Education Standards
http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeassess/UAS/CoAcademicStandards.html

National Council for the Social Studies
http://www.socialstudies.org/

Colorado Council for the Social Studies
http://cosocialstudies.org/

Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools
http://www.civicmissionofschools.org/

Center for Civic Education
http://www.civiced.org/

Center for Education in Law and Democracy
http://www.lawanddemocracy.org/

National Council for Geographic Education
http://www.ncge.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1

Colorado Geographic Alliance
http://www.uccs.edu/~coga/

Colorado Council for Economic Education
http://www.ccee.net/

Fort Collins International Center
http://www.fortcollinsinternationalcenter.org/

Center for Asian Studies
http://www.colorado.edu/cas/

Central Asia Institute (and Pennies for Peace)
https://www.ikat.org/

Partnership for 21st Century Skills
http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/

C-SPAN Classroom (watch live debate in the Legislative section)
http://www.c-spanclassroom.org/Default.aspx

Teacher Resources

Colorado Council for the Social Studies
For a current list of Colorado-based professional development opportunities, click here!

RAFT - Resource Area for Teaching
Membership site offering diverse and extremely low cost educational resources for the classroom and beyond. 

Many teacher resources are also located in the Blackboard course named PSD Social Studies Resources. 

Click here to log into Blackboard.  (All secondary social studies teachers, and all elementary teachers, are registered  for this course.  In addition, all building principals are registered.  If you are not able to access the Social Studies Resources course on Blackboard, please contact Andrea or Kathy.)