Student Resources
Parent Resources
Teacher Resources
Student Resources
The Library of Congress: American Memory
The Colorado Historical Society Library
The National Geographic Society
Colorado-The Official State Web Portal
The National Constitution Center: Student Resources
The Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary: Education & Resources
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: History by Era
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: Historic Documents
The National WWII Museum: Student Resources
The National Archives: Student Information
The National Archives: Reproducible copies of Primary Documents
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
C-SPAN Classroom (watch live debate in the Legislative section)
Service and Civic Participation - United Way of Larimer County
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
National Council for the Social Studies
Colorado Council for the Social Studies
Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools
Center for Education in Law and Democracy
National Council for Geographic Education
Colorado Council for Economic Education
Fort Collins International Center
C-SPAN Classroom (watch live debate in the Legislative section)
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.)
For further information or assistance please contact
| Scott VanTatenhove, K-12 Social Studies Facilitator 2407 LaPorte Avenue Fort Collins, CO (970) 490-3668 svantate@psdschools.org |
Kathy Ghidossi, Department Secretary for Social Studies and Math 2407 LaPorte Avenue Fort Collins, CO (970) 490-3272 kghidoss@psdschools.org |