Resources

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 White House
• 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 Civic Education
• Center for Education in Law and Democracy
• National Council for Geographic Education
• Colorado Geographic Alliance
• Colorado Council for Economic Education
• Fort Collins International Center
• Center for Asian Studies
• Central Asia Institute
• 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