ACSS is a non-profit
organization dedicated to promoting quality instruction for students
and support for Social Studies educators. We are part of the network
of more than 110 affiliated state, local, and regional councils and
associated groups with the National Council for the Social Studies.
Our membership represents K-12 classroom teachers, college and university
faculty members, curriculum designers and specialists, social studies
supervisors, and leaders in the various disciplines that constitute
the social studies.
Take advantage
of discounted ACSS Membership for you School's entire Social Studies
Department, or join today as an individual or student member! Membership includes discounted registration at the ACSS Conference in October!
Celebrate the Arizona Centennial with a new lesson (or two) -
To celebrate the Arizona Centennial, the Arizona Geographic Alliance has created a list of lessons for Teaching Arizona History with a Geographical Perspective and posted this list of over 50 K-12 lessons on their website. An excerpt of It’s Where??? A Look at the Location of our First Arizona Territorial Capital and Why it was Located There! By Patty Sepp is available here for download as a pdf. Click to download. To see the entire lesson, including maps, student worksheets and assessments go to the Arizona Geographic Alliance website, http://alliance.la.asu.edu/azga/ (or Google Arizona Geographic Alliance), select the Legacy Project button on the right hand side of the page and click it to open the list with links to the lessons. This list is in alphabetical order by the name of the lesson and shows suggested grade levels and the Arizona State Geography Concepts covered by the lesson as well as other standards content the lesson meets. Just click on the links to get the lessons. Happy 100th birthday Arizona!
By the way, do you happen to know when Arizona will celebrate its 100th Birthday as a state? Find out here - CLICK!
The Reference Library Database for Social Studies and Science Trade
books is now available through IDEAL. A link to the Database is available on
theSocial Studies Resource Page.
Over fifty-five K-12 lessons/resources are new to the Learning Resource Manager. To access the new resources, log into IDEAL, go to Curriculum Resources, then go to the Learning Resource Manager.
History and Politics Out Loud (HPOL) is a searchable archive of politically significant audio materials for scholars, teachers and students. HPOL is a component of "Historical Voices" funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with Michigan State University.
Sandra Day O'Connor Civic Learning Act
In late 2011, Congressmen Tom Cole (R-Okla.) and Mike Honda (D-Calif.) introduced H.R. 3464, the "Sandra Day O'Connor Civic Learning Act," to establish a competitive grant program for civic learning and require the collection and public release of state-level data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in civics and history. Congressmen Cole and Honda are now working to secure co-sponsors. Visit Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools for more information on the act.
