Mission Statement

The mission of the Fort Worth Independent School District Social Studies Department is to empower all students to become participating citizens with knowledge, skills and attitudes enabling them to make informed decisions in a culturally diverse and interdependent world.

News

Elementary History Fair

Results

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Congratulations to the FWISD

Social Studies Department for

Receiving a

Teaching American History Grant

"Project INSIGHT"

Investigation of Nation-Shaping Individuals Grant

for Histry Teachers

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Newly Approved Online Resources!

Art and Archives

Lessons using paintings from the

Sid Richardson Museum and documents from the NARA-Southwest Region

Law Focused Education, Inc.

lessons for those government TEKS

taught in all grades

National Council on Economic Education

Lessons for those Economic TEKS

Taught in All Grades

The News Hour With Jim Lehrer

Up-to-Date Election Coverage

With Lessons and Interactive Election Map

EDSITEment

Lessons for All Grades/Subjects

Gilder-Lehrman Institute

Online Exhibition - Civil War Letters

History Now The Supreme Court

WorldMapper

The World As You've Never Seen It Before

Eyewitness Exhibit:

American Originals

from the National Archives

Eyewitness Podcasts:

First Hand Accounts Told in Under

3 Minutes!

(see all accounts at iTunes Podcasts)

John C. Fremont Expedition

Last Days of Hoover Administration

Nystrom

Free Maps of the Month

supported with geographical and historical data

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