National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) (http://www.ncss.org/)Facing History and Ourselves (http://www.facing.org/)
National Center for History in Schools (http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/)
Chicago Metro History Education Center (http://www.uic.edu/orgs/cmhec/)
Chicago Historical Society (http://www.chicagohistory.org/)
Rethinking Schools (http://www.rethinkingschools.org)
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History Matters (http://historymatters.gmu.edu) - City University of New YorkAmerican Memory (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/) - Library of Congress
Electronic Text Center (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/uvaonline.html) - University of VirginiaGilder Lehrman Collection (http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/)
- Digital History (http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/) - American Historical Documents component of Gilder Lehman collection
History and Politics Out Loud -- audio historical documents from Northwestern University
American Studies Hyper-texts (http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html) - University of Virginia
Internet Archive (http://archive.org) - a non-profit Internet document and audio/video index
- including WPA slave narratives
Links to the Past (http://www.cr.nps.gov/) - National Parks Service
Marco Polo (http://www.marcopolo-education.org/) - Internet content for the classroom
Documenting the American South (http://docsouth.unc.edu/) - University of North Carolina
New Perspectives on the West (http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/) - Public Broadcasting System
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Filamentality (http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/) - tool to create your own web-links page to connect students to documentsThe Digital Classroom (http://www.nara.gov/education/classrm.html) - National Archives and Records Administration's forms for working with documents in the classroom
Web-site Evaluation Guidelines - Facing History and Ourselves' strategies for evaluating Internet sources
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Marco Polo (http://www.marcopolo-education.org/) - Internet content for the classroom
The Collaboratory (http://collaboratory.nunet.net/cwebdocs/) - Northwestern University
Web Quests (http://webquest.org/)
Filamentality (http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/) - tool to create your own web links page
Project TITUS Curriculum Modules (http://www2.ed.uic.edu/titusbuild/Moduleindex.asp) - Unviersity of Illinois at Chicago
RubiStar (http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php) - on-line tool for creating rubrics
My Teacher Tools (http://www.myteachertools.com/) - links to a huge number of miscellaneous teacher resources
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National History StandardsCPS Academic Standards and Frameworks
Illinois Learning Standards Prairie State Academic Exam - Social Science Sample Test
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CPS School Information DatabaseCPS School Locator GIS Map and Database
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Historical Census Database Web Site 1790-1960: http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/
Census forms and questions 1850-2000: http://www.ipums.umn.edu/usa/voliii/tEnumForm.html
American FactFinder Census Data: http://factfinder.census.gov
The main Census 2000 web site -- lots of great stuff, explore!American Fact Finder -- best place to download 1990 and 2000 census data and make queries, with easy-to-use maps.
- Here are some instructions for using American Fact Finder to get data on a specific place:
Census in schools -- Census-data lesson plans for grades K-12, resources for teachers
Chicago Community Area demographics -- by census tract or community area
The Electronic Map Library -- very cool GIS maps showing 1990 and 2000 census data using colored dots. They have maps for many cities, including Chicago
Statistical Abstract of the United States -- tons of reports from census data
Infonation - United Nations site for students to compare international data on countries
The CIA World Factbook:- Maps and data for countries around the world
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David Rumsey Map Collection -- excellent and searchable collection of on-line digital maps
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) GIS Clearinghouse -- search for mapped data by theme, place, and/or time
The Electronic Map Library -- very cool GIS maps showing 1990 and 2000 census data using colored dots. They have maps for many cities, including ChicagoNational Atlas of the US -- nice site to make maps of agriculture, biology, environment, people, climate, and other data
Historical census data: African American migration 1890-1930 maps from UIC's Great Migration project
CAGIS map browser -- map of Chicago with 1990 census data by census tract, select what data you want to display and how. Takes a long time to load, be patient!
Pilsen and North Lawndale 1990 census data maps -- location, population, ethnicity, income, and rent data from the 1990 census for the Pilsen and North Lawndale communities
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