United States History Connecting the Past to the Present Web Site
Ready resources for the classroom include lesson plans, video clips, pictures, primary documents, Internet links, graphics, and maps. This Web site will enhance teachers’ content knowledge and support the development of instructional strategies for teaching United States history.

Teaching and Learning Virginia K-3 History and Social Science Standards of Learning
This Web site resource is provided for teachers and students. It includes lesson plans, school connections, literature links, reading strategies, and online resources for kindergarten through grade three.

Primary Knowledge of Economics: Concepts and Principles for the Economics Strand of the K-3 History and Social Science Standards of Learning (2001)
A resource for teachers and parents on the economics concepts covered in kindergarten through grade three is available at this site.

Virginia Indian History and Social Science Web Site: An Online Resource for the Classroom
Virginia’s First People Past and Present is designed for elementary, middle, and high school teachers as a guide in the instructional planning process for teaching the history, geography, and economic systems of the Virginia Indians. Links to the eight state-recognized tribes of Virginia are included in this resource.

Mali: Ancient Crossroads of Africa
This resource for elementary and middles school teachers and students includes background knowledge, lesson plans, literature links, and online resources on the West African Empire of Mali.

Virginia Studies: Ready Resources for the Classroom
This is a Web site resource for teachers and students with lesson plans, school connections, literature links, reading strategies, maps, and online resources for Virginia Studies.

Everyday Civics
Civics education in Virginia emphasizes the importance of citizen involvement in all levels of government and promotes the study of state and local government among the Commonwealth's citizens. This Web site will enhance teachers’ content knowledge and support the development of instructional strategies for teaching civics in k-12 history and social science classrooms. Ready resources for the classroom include lesson plans, discussion boards, primary documents, Internet links, and media.

Global Learning Virginia Standards of Learning
The increased interdependency of nations and people requires that our K-12 instructional program reinforce and augment international knowledge. Global Learning combines links to many international organizations, information about international education, and lesson plans designed to enhance student learning.

Teacher Resource Catalog CD-ROM for Teachers of United States History to 1877, United States History: 1877 to the Present, and Civics and Economics
This resource catalog contains copies of Virginia Department of Education documents pertinent to the targeted History and Social Science Standards of Learning.

An Economy at Work: The Production and Consumption of Goods and Services
This teaching module is designed to help elementary and middle school classroom teachers implement instructional strategies on economics concepts covered in the Standards of Learning.

Maps of the Five Geographic Regions of Virginia (2001)

• Outline Map
• Map With Counties
• Map Without Counties

Selected Geographic Regions of North America (2001)
Correlates to Standard USI.2b for History and Social Science

Virginia Pathways
Virginia Pathways is an educational video series with print and web materials, produced in association with the Virginia History Production Consortium. The series is dictated by the fourth grade Virginia History Standards of Learning.

The Library of Virginia
The Library of Virginia serves as the library agency of the state, the archival agency of the Commonwealth, and the reference library at the seat of government.

Virginia Museum of Natural History
The Virginia Museum of Natural History is a place where scientific research about the Commonwealth of Virginia's natural history and public understanding merge. Exhibits, outreach programs, and publications translate the findings of the Museum curators' scientific research into easily understood language and concepts.

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts houses a remarkable permanent collection of more than twenty thousand works of art from almost every major world culture.

Virginia Association of Museums
A resource list of museums in Virginia that includes many online resources for teachers and students

Virginia Historical Society
The mission of the Virginia Historical Society is to collect, preserve, and interpret the commonwealth's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation operates the world’s largest living history museum in Williamsburg, Virginia—the restored 18th-century capital of Britain’s largest, wealthiest, and most populous outpost of empire in the New World.

Jamestown - Yorktown Foundation
Experience the story of America's beginnings at Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center. Through film, artifact-filled galleries and outdoor living history, these museums engage visitors in nearly two centuries of our nation's history - from the founding of America's first permanent English settlement in 1607 to the decisive Revolutionary War victory in 1781 and implementation of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Jamestown 2007
The goal of this very special commemoration is to capture the spirit, imagination, and diversity of Americans and develop that energy into a myriad of community programs, signature events, and national and international festivities that showcases Virginia’s unique role as the birthplace of modern America and the cradle of American democratic traditions, cultures, ideologies and principles - 400 years strong.

Virginia Council for the Social Studies (VCSS)

Virginia Consortium of Social Studies Supervisors and College Educators (VCSSSCE)

Virginia Council on Economic Education (VCEE)

Virginia Geographical Alliance (VGA)

Betsy S. Barton
Elementary School History and Social Science
Virginia Department of Education
P.O. Box 2120
Richmond, Virginia 23218-2120
Voice: 804/225-3454
Fax: 804/786-1703
E-Mail: Betsy.Barton@doe.virginia.gov