Economics and Financial Literacy
These objectives for economics education and financial literacy are required of all students at the middle and high school levels to further the development of knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for responsible citizenship in a constitutional democracy.

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.

United States History: Connecting the Past to the Present
A Web site resource for teachers and students with lesson plans, school connections, reading strategies for content teachers, and online resources for United States History to 1877, United States History: 1877 to the Present, and Civics and Economics.

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.

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

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 is a Web site resource for elementary and middles school teachers and students including background knowledge, lesson plans, literature links, and online resources on the West African Empire of Mali.

WorldNet Virginia - A Web Resource for SOL
On-line resources for students and teachers supporting the Virginia Standards of Learning

Geography Connects
Geography Connects is an online course open to all Virginia teachers. The class is free for Virginia teachers who wish to earn up to 45 license renewal points, or it may be taken for three graduate credits through Old Dominion University The course supports the Virginia Standards of Learning for teaching World History and Geography to 1500 AD. The purpose of the course is to help teachers incorporate more geography into the World History and Geography curriculum.

US History Connects
The purpose of U.S. History Connects is to give Virginia teachers additional knowledge and resources on U.S. history, with an emphasis on 20th century that can be incorporated into their U.S. History curriculum. The class is free for Virginia teachers who wish to earn up to 45 license renewal points, or it may be taken for three graduate credits through Old Dominion University. History Connects supports the Virginia Standards of Learning for teaching U.S. History.

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.

Virginia Holocaust Museum
The mission of the Virginia Holocaust Museum includes the following goals: To remember the victims who lived through or perished during the Holocaust. To combat intolerance, anti-Semitism, prejudice and hate. To provide educational materials in the Holocaust Education Resource Center. To increase awareness and understanding of the Holocaust in the general community.

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.

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)

Dr. Beverly Thurston
Middle School History and the Social Science 
Virginia Department of Education 
P.O. Box 2120 
Richmond, Virginia 23218-2120 
Voice: 804/225-2893
Fax: 804/786-5466 
e-mail: Beverly.Thurston@doe.virginia.gov