Open Educational Resources: Social Sciences

Reusable objects that can be added to your course site. Limit your results by grade level and discipline area. Of particular note are the interactive games designed to help students learn about a variety of social science topics ranging from affirmative action to creating a poll to controlling the US debt. Contains sections for Anthropology, Economics, History, Psychology, and Political Science.

Educational and entertaining videos that can be easily embed in your Blackboard site. Scroll down this Youtube channel to find sections on Economics, U.S. Government and Politics, Psychology, US History and more.

Instructional videos that can be used to supplement readings and lectures, or to inform in class discussion. Topics related to the social sciences include probability & statistics, microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance, and history. Partner institutions, accessible from Khan Academy, provide additional tutorials on topics such as the US Healthcare System and the Big History Project, which “examines our shared history across scales and disciplines.”

Open courses in economics, political science, psychology, and sociology. You can use individual units as is or you can edit and transform the material to meet your needs.

Videos, activities, and modules that can be added to your course site. Results can be limited by grade level and discipline area. Contains sections for Economics, Politics, and History.

Modules, exercise, and data sets for teaching research methods in the social sciences. This is of particular use for quantitative methods courses.

A gateway to subject specific resources available through the library. Once you identify a topic, Opposing Viewpoints presents you with links to related videos, audio clips, images, articles, etc. The database includes a broad range of current and controversial topics.

Collection of reports on controversial issues of current significance. The reports offer topic overviews and background information, opposing viewpoint essays, and much more.