Social Studies Resources
Seterra: Geography quiz games.
C-SPAN Classroom: Free video based materials for social studies teachers.
MyLibraryNYC: A collection of resources from our partnership with MyLibraryNYC via the three public library systems in NYC.
Brooklyn Public Library Learning Resources: BPL subscribes to dozens of online databases. These databases contain information from trusted sources, including encyclopedias, newspaper and journal articles, research and reference works, and books.
Echoes & Reflections: Echoes & Reflections offers educators access to a library of comprehensive Holocaust content that is classroom-ready and prepared with today’s students and classrooms in mind. This allows educators to leverage a variety of ways to examine critical themes of the Holocaust.
New York Historical Society Curriculum: Materials include primary source documents, photos, paintings, maps, life stories, timelines, lesson activities, discussion questions, and more!
Haymarket Books: Haymarket Books is offering 10 free eBooks for the next two weeks. Topics range across the social sciences.
AAPB: The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) is a collaboration between the Library of Congress and the WGBH Educational Foundation to coordinate a national effort to preserve at-risk public media before its content is lost to posterity and provide a central web portal for access to the unique programming that public stations have aired over the past 70 years. To date, over 110,000 digital files of television and radio programming contributed by more than 130 public media organizations and archives across the United States have been preserved and made accessible for long-term preservation and access. The entire collection is available on location at the Library of Congress and WGBH, and more than 52,000 files are available online at americanarchive.org.
Angel Island Immigrant Journeys (Curriculum): Angel Island Immigration Station's curriculum guides, called "Immigrant Journeys," provide strategies and background material designed for teachers of Grades 3-12. These free guides contain lessons, student worksheets, primary source documents from the National Archives, historical photographs, and list of resources to introduce students to the experience of immigrants on Angel Island.
C-SPAN Classroom: Free video based materials for social studies teachers.
MyLibraryNYC: A collection of resources from our partnership with MyLibraryNYC via the three public library systems in NYC.
Brooklyn Public Library Learning Resources: BPL subscribes to dozens of online databases. These databases contain information from trusted sources, including encyclopedias, newspaper and journal articles, research and reference works, and books.
Echoes & Reflections: Echoes & Reflections offers educators access to a library of comprehensive Holocaust content that is classroom-ready and prepared with today’s students and classrooms in mind. This allows educators to leverage a variety of ways to examine critical themes of the Holocaust.
New York Historical Society Curriculum: Materials include primary source documents, photos, paintings, maps, life stories, timelines, lesson activities, discussion questions, and more!
Haymarket Books: Haymarket Books is offering 10 free eBooks for the next two weeks. Topics range across the social sciences.
AAPB: The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) is a collaboration between the Library of Congress and the WGBH Educational Foundation to coordinate a national effort to preserve at-risk public media before its content is lost to posterity and provide a central web portal for access to the unique programming that public stations have aired over the past 70 years. To date, over 110,000 digital files of television and radio programming contributed by more than 130 public media organizations and archives across the United States have been preserved and made accessible for long-term preservation and access. The entire collection is available on location at the Library of Congress and WGBH, and more than 52,000 files are available online at americanarchive.org.
Angel Island Immigrant Journeys (Curriculum): Angel Island Immigration Station's curriculum guides, called "Immigrant Journeys," provide strategies and background material designed for teachers of Grades 3-12. These free guides contain lessons, student worksheets, primary source documents from the National Archives, historical photographs, and list of resources to introduce students to the experience of immigrants on Angel Island.