Textbook Companion Sites-Great Resources

While writing the blog on choosing a textbook, I decided also to do a post that has a listing of sociology text companion websites as well.  Some have freely available instructor resources while some have them password protected.  Please do take some time to check out these resources and bookmark those that have been most helpful.  If there are any activities or ideas worth sharing, let me know and you or I can blog them.  


Check out the activities that are posted on these sites-let us know which ones are working for you in your classroom.


McGraw-Hill's Mega-Site of Sociology Instructor Resources for the Schaefer text
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073404144/sitemap.html


Richard Schaefer's Sociology: A Brief Introduction, 4/e
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072435569/student_view0/




John J. Macionis' Sociology 10th Edition
http://wps.prenhall.com/hss_macionis_sociology_10/




Henry L. Tischler Cengage Advantage Books: Introduction to Sociology, 10th Edition
http://www.cengage.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20bI&product_isbn_issn=9780495804406


William Kornblum  Sociology in a Changing World 
8th Edition ©2008   ISBN: 0495096350http://www.brookscole.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9780495096351&discipline_number=0



Essentials of Sociology 
6th Edition ©2005  ISBN: 0534626769
David B. Brinkerhoff, Lynn K. White, Suzanne T. Ortega, Rose Weitz
http://www.wadsworth.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=0534626769&discipline_number=14




Social Problems Supersite
http://wps.ablongman.com/ab_socialprob_sprsite_1/11/3023/773890.cw/index.html




Henslin's Sociology Quizzing and Review Materials
http://wps.ablongman.com/ab_henslin_essentials_5a/9/2534/648834.cw/index.html




Henslin's Sociology Spanish Quizzing Materials
http://wps.ablongman.com/ab_henslin_sociology_8/43/11215/2871175.cw/index.html






The Teaching High School Sociology Web Site

Race is Real

This blog was posted a couple of weeks ago, but I just got to reading it.  It examines how I've taught about race--there are no "races" in terms of biology, but rather social categories made up by groups of humans to justify whatever their aims were.  The blog entry is here:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/busting-myths-about-human-nature/201204/race-is-real-not-in-the-way-many-people-think

But the best part of this was an introduction to some resources including this one:
http://www.understandingrace.org/



Do check out the intro at least once.  Valid questions.  The main home page is here:
http://www.understandingrace.org/home.html

The American Anthropology Association has create a look at race through three lenses: history, human variation, and lived experience.  This site will take you some time to examine, but is totally worth it if you want to provide some additional context to your students.  I'd never seen this one before and it is an excellent site.  Kudos to the AAA.  At the end, there is a section for resources for teachers and families. Great stuff.



The Teaching High School Sociology web site