Resources
Download the most updated version of the Illinois Learning Standards for Social Science here
Stay up to date with the required Illinois Mandated Units of Study for Social Science
Download this toolkit aimed at supporting more inquiry-based and inclusive social studies teaching and learning experiences. Designed by Illinois teachers for Illinois teachers, Towards Inquiry and Inclusion has readings, resources, and planning templates to help start and sustain more inquiry-based and justice-centered social studies practices in Illinois classrooms.
Finding quality, inquiry-based and justice-centered resources for social studies can be challenging. We've designed a Resource Evaluation Tool that can be used to support a quick, yet thoughtful analysis of the numerous resources one might encounter when coordinating and assembling inquiry-based and inclusive learning experiences for social studies students.
K-12 social studies can be a place of imagination and action, a place of inquiry and transformation. Students, their families, and their communities are at the crux of this relationship between questioning and answering. This toolkit, titled Inquiry With and In Community, is designed to support stronger, more symbiotic relationships, between Illinois social studies teachers and their students, families, and communities.