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This section of the website has a links to resources useful to students of California and their teachers. This section is mostly dedicated to directing you to quality resources to enliven and enrich the instruction of California's history, both in the narrow sense and more broadly (economic and political history).

The table below contains hyperlinks, organized by topic and approach, which will direct you first to a list of pedagogical resources that have been reviewed and vetted. Primarily these are links to high quality teaching resources, especially those which encourage students to think about historical events and personalities much like a historian would.


Grade 3: Resources for Students of Southern California's History
California Board of
Education Content Standards
Topic Resource Source
       
  Los Angeles River - History and Geography Los Angeles Learning Exchange - Target Science Learning Exchange
       
       

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Grade 4: Resources for Students of California's History
California Board of
Education Content Standards
Topic Resource Source
       
  Using photographs to interpret California History Online Photographic Collection

San Diego Historical Society

       
       

 

 

California for Educator Resources

Los Angeles County History using Google Earth - Lesson Plan.


History Resources at California State University, Northridge

History Department at California State University, Northridge
The homepage for CSUN's history department.  Contains links to faculty, events and programs

Oviatt Library
CSUN's main library has a good set of historical archives that may prove very useful to you.
Included in the digital collections are The San Fernando Valley Digital History Library, The Latino Cultural Heritage Digital Archives and L.A. as Subject, among other collections.
 

Off Campus History Resources

Library of Congress
The library of Congress has an impressive suite of educational websites.  You may want to start at their main web page, go to the American Memory Website, which hosts an enormous collection of primary resource data and artifacts.  Maybe you would rather go straight to the Learning Page, a part of their website designed to help teachers use the enormous resources of the LOC effectively.

Smithsonian Education
Gateway Site
An impressive array of helpful resources to aid educators, students and parents.

Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies.
Art & Artifact: A Teacher's Guide to Interpreting Objects and Writing History
This site has a set of lessons that demonstrate how objects and artifacts from America's past can be effectively used in the classroom.

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