Alameda County

Professional Resources for History/Social Science

• The Content, Literacy, Inquiry, and Citizenship (CLIC) Project.  Professional learning and resources to help educators and school administrators successfully implement the California History-Social Science Framework. 
• Universal Design for Learning in the HSS Classroom: This collection of Strategies help connect the principles of the Universal Design for Learning to History/Social Science Education
• National Council for the Social Studies C3 Framework. Provides a national framework for Social Studies
• The Content, Literacy, Inquiry, and Citizenship (CLIC) Project.  Professional learning and resources to help educators and school administrators successfully implement the California History-Social Science Framework. 
• orate visual arts into Social Science
• Historical Thinking Matters.  Historical Thinking Matters focuses on key topics in U.S. history, designed to teach students how to critically read primary sources and how to critique and construct historical narratives.

Content Specific Professional Resources for History/Social Science

• California History-Social Science Project.  CHSSP is one of nine California Subject Matter Projects that provide high quality professional development for educators at the pre-kindergarten through post-secondary levels.
• A collection of Voter Education Resources: Compiled from Various Educational Organizations by the Los Angeles County Office of Education
• Teaching Visual Arts in Connection with History/Social Studies: This presentation provides a grade by grade break down of how to incorp
• Stanford History Education Group (SHEG).  SHEG specializes in the 'Think Like a Historian curriculum' including multiple Document Based Question resource
• Facing History and Ourselves. Facing History and Ourselves provides educational materials to support civic responsibility, tolerance, and social action for young people.
• California Museum.  The California Museum — provides interactive and innovative experiences focused on individual history makers
• Teaching Tolerance.    It provides free resources to educators—teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners—who work with children from kindergarten through high school. Educators use our materials to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants.
• The 1619 Project. The 1619 Project is a major initiative by The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are.