Note that this includes online materials that now are free to teachers for the time being.
Basic Content (primary and secondary sources)
NEWSELA (click here)
- Content platform that puts out ten texts a day
- FREE to teachers for the rest of AY20
- 100 Content partners (see here) from Newspapers to Non-Profit Organizations; broad thematic and regional spectrum
- Texts are provided at 5 different reading levels; they are already related to national SOC standards
- This will give you primary and secondary (mainly) texts around which you can create assignments
Civics
Bill of Rights Institute: Civil Society and Federalism in Times of Crisis (The government's response to COVID-19)
- Has two readings and a visual organizer
- Requires student research
- Could be done as a Google Classroom Streamed Discussion (you make a prompt, students answer with replies), with the Graphic Organizer as the product that is turned in
- Click above for the original page with instructions and materials
- The two handouts also are here (What is a Federal Government?) and here (Principles and Virtues Glossary)
- I turned the graphic organizer on the page into a Google Doc, you can access it here, copy it, and use it in your Google Classroom assignments