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• Case Study: The Color Purple on the Whiteboard 
  The assigned high school reading of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple was intended to rectify an imbalance in gendered and raced texts in the curriculum and increase Caucasian awareness of race. But the school administration failed to adequately prepare its predominantly white population and instead reinforced stereotypes about gender, race, and sexuality.
  http://www.rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/5may2930w5.htm - More

• Education World: Social Sciences Center 
  Provides practical resources for history and social science educators.
  http://www.education-world.com/soc_sci/ - More

• History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers 
  The major purpose of this home page is to encourage the use of the World Wide Web as a tool for learning and teaching and to provide some help for K-12 classroom teachers in locating and using the resources of the Internet in the classroom.
  http://my.execpc.com/~dboals/boals.html - More

• National Council for the Social Studies 
  Social studies educators teach students the content knowledge, intellectual skills, and civic values necessary for fulfilling the duties of citizenship in a participatory democracy. The mission of National Council for the Social Studies is to provide leadership, service, and support for all social studies educators.
  http://www.ncss.org/ - More

• Religion in the Social Studies Curriculum 
  Essay which looks at the different ways religious belief can be presented in social studies classes.
  http://www.ericdigests.org/1994/religion.htm - More

• Social Studies Art, Posters & Prints 
  Offers posters and prints relating to the teaching of social studies.
  http://www.historyofnations.net/worldart/2z_b12244_1.php - More

• Social Studies Lesson Plans 
  Lessons for elementary, middle and high school students.
  http://www.col-ed.org/cur/social.html - More

• Teaching about Religion in the Social Studies 
  Article which views the various ways religious belief can be presented in social studies classes.
  http://www.ericdigests.org/pre-929/religion.htm - More

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