Your Social Studies Connection
2012 Mini-Grant Applications Open
Looking for a few extra bucks for a cool project? KCSS is giving it away!
Apply now for one of three KCSS classroom mini-grants by using the quick and easy online app. Get tips for a successful application here. The deadline is May 15 - so get on it!
Summer Workshop Lesson Plans
Twenty-five teachers attended the 2011 Teaching with Primary Sources summer workshop. Part of their work involved writing and implementing primary document-based lesson plans. From Salvador Dali to the Civil War to the Great Depression, find teacher-tested lesson plans here.
Teaching with Primary Sources Lesson Plans
The lessons below were created as part of the 2011 Teaching with Primary Sources Workshop. (All files are in PDF format for easy download.)
First Amendment Supreme Court Cases
- Worksheet
- Skokie v. National Socialist Party
- Brown v. Louisana
- Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier
- Synder v. Phelps
- Layshock v. Hermitage School District / J.S. v. Blue Mountain School District
Amelia Earhart
Causes of the Civil War
Civil War Battles
Civil War Turning Points
Early Humans
Great American Desert
Great Depression / The New Deal
Historical Figures from American History
John Brown: Hero or Villian?
- Lesson Plan
- A Tragic Prelude presentation
- A Tragic Prelude Mural
- Entrance into Hell Primary Source
- Entrance into Hell Lyrics
- Kirk Rundstrom Lyrics
- Kirk Rundstrom Questions
- Music Analysis Questions
- John Brown Song Primary Source
- John Brown Song Lyrics
- Sum It Up
- Think Pair Share
John Brown: Martyr or Terrorist?
- Lesson Plan
- What Do You See?
- Broken Up Photo
- PowerPoint Notes
- Tombstones
- Primary Sources
- Primary Sources Chart
Lewis and Clark
Pearl Harbor
Railroads and the American West
Salvador Dali
- Lesson Plan
- Photo Analysis
- Definitions
- Who Am I?
- Art Critique Rubric
- What is Surrealism presentation
Social Hierachy of Feudalism
Westward Expansion
- Lesson Plan
- Traveling the Trail
- Cone Diary
- Day Diary
- Day in the Life of a Pioneer
- Trail Card Cut-Outs
Works Progress Adminstration
World War One: Preserving a Soldier's Past
- Lesson Plan
- 3, 2, 1 Closure Activity
- Milling to Music Handout
- RAFT Creating Your Own Primary Source
- Read, Write, Share Handout
- Soldier Biographies
- Soldier Letters
- Trading Card Activity
World War Two Home Front
Save the Conference Date!
We are now accepting session proposals!
The KCSS, Kansas Geographical Society, Kansas Historical Society, and the Kansas Department of Education are co-sponsoring the 2012 conference titled No Citizen Left Behind: Teaching Social Studies in the 21st Century. The conference is September 30 and October 1 at the KSHS complex in Topeka.