Hello!

I oversee a small team of retired educators and librarians who volunteer their time with EducatorLabs. The primary role of this team is to fill resource requests (see: http://educatorlabs.org/request-a-resource/) that come to us from educators every day on a variety of topics. Each time we get a request, we put together a resource toolkit to be used in the classroom.

We just received a request from a teacher in Mt Washington, KY who is preparing government-related lesson plans. An important topic, but one we’ve not covered in-depth to date, so we’re busily searching for material to fit the bill.

I’m writing to you on behalf of the research team with a couple of questions:

1. do you have any resource suggestions that you think should be included in the end product?

2. can we cite a few of the resources you list on this page: http://cuip.net/~tjones/home/social/soc.htm ?

Also, we thought you may want to know that you’re linking to a dead resource on that same page. This link: http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids is no longer working; as far as we can tell, it should be updated to either: http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/inside-white-house or http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/kids/html/home.html.

Finally, here is the list of resources we’ve found so far for the toolkit - would any be a good fit for your site? If so, we invite you to post them on your site to share with your other visitors:

Three Branches of Government: Guide for Kids
http://kids.usa.gov/three-branches-of-government/index.shtml 

Understanding Government Systems Around the World
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2128.html 

Federal Government News and Analysis
http://blog.zintro.com/government/

Government and the Market: Lesson Plans
https://www.icivics.org/curriculum/government-market 

Teaching Students about the Central Bank
http://www.mortgagecalculator.biz/resources/central-banks/

Government & Public Administration Videos
http://www.careeronestop.org/Videos/CareerandClusterVideos/career-and-cluster-videos.aspx

EducatorLabs is funded by donations and fueled by help from people like you. We greatly appreciate any help you can provide!

Sincerely,
Kelly on behalf of EducatorLabs’ “Rockin’ Retired Researchers”

Kelly Campbell
kelly.campbell@educatorlabs.org
EducatorLabs.org :: Cultivating. Connecting. Curating.
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