Welcome to the PAEC Social Studies Resources Page. Within these pages you will find a collection of materials designed to assist teachers as they build and deliver instruction for social studies K-12. The site serves as an ever-growing source of information and of resources that are found on the internet. We hope that you find these pages of value to you in your preparation for instruction and encourage you to share with us other sites that you have found helpful so that we might make them available to other educators in the field of social studies.
Standards
http://www.fldoe.org/bii/curriculum/sss/ The Florida Department of Education Sunshine State Standards for all content areas are given along with Grade Level Expectations. A pdf file for social studies is available.
http://databank.ncss.org NCSS DataBank - Resources for Social Studies Educators (Resources are categorized by the ten themes of the Curriculum Standards for Social Studies)
http://www.socialstudies.org/resources/notable Notable Social Studies Books for Young People (books selected by a book review committee appointed by the National Council for the Social Studies)
http://edgate.com The Copernicus Education Gateway - the search engine allows you to search the Copernicus, the Encyclopedia Britanniza and the Internet
Assessment
http://fcat.fldoe.org/ The Florida Department of Education website on FCAT scores for all districts and curriculum groups
