- Adventure Learning Foundation
- Creates curricula which follow online adventure learning expeditions
as they travel around the world. Includes resources for use in the K-12
classroom.
- AP History Online
- Provides Information of AP European and United States History, and
Preparation for the AP Test. Done by a Student who got a "5" on the
AP Test.
- BC Social Studies Teachers'
Association Top Links - Offers links to valuable lesson plans, research
links and professional information to teachers interested in socials,
history, geography, and comparative civilizations.
- Best History Websites-
A portal created for students, history educators, and general history
enthusiasts. Here you'll find sites, rated for usefulness and accuracy,
that will help you study or teach a wide variety of topics and periods
in History.
- Big
Sky Social Studies Lesson Plans - Gopher site offers dozens of lesson
plans for all grade levels.
- Colonial America
- For Freedom and Profit - United States History project designed
for grades 6-12. It is an interactive, internet-based, cooperative group
activity in which students build a colony from the ground up.
- CongressLink: Know your Congress
- A site that educates about Congress, the Constitution, the legislative
process (long and short versions), current Congressional leadership,
and Congressional staff positions.
- Cultural / Educational
Artefacts - Created by teachers for teachers. Give students the
opportunity to learn about history by feeling and touching actual parts
of history.
- Digital
Classroom - To encourage teachers of students at all levels to use
archival documents in the classroom, the Digital Classroom provides
materials from the National Archives and methods for teaching with primary
sources.
- Dwayne Voegeli's Social
Studies Teacher's Page - A collection of resources geared toward
9-12 grade educators.
- Foreign Affairs for America's
Youth - A new site for young people that combines the best from
the two previous US Department of State sites "Kids" and "Geographic
Learning Sites". Learn about diplomacy, social studies, government,
and global issues.
- General History
Sources/Sites - Part of the History/Social Studies Web Site for
K-12 Teachers
- Global Nomads Group - GNG is a non-profit
organization dedicated to promoting international dialogue by partnering
educators around the world. Includes a teacher survey and project overview.
- Great
Sites For Teaching About: The Middle Ages - These sites are among
the best on the Web for teaching about the Middle Ages.
- Histor eSearch.com - Directory
of online history research resources for students and educators.
- History Matters - Designed
for high school and college teachers of U.S. History courses. This site
serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers useful materials for
teaching U.S. history.
- Junto Society - In-depth
information and resources on historical dates and events, American documents,
founding father's, American Indians, Presidents, and How Government
Works.
- La
Escuela Rice WebNaissance Pages - Uses the life of Galileo as the
starting point for a wide variety of activities. As part of a special
enrichment project, Galileo's Web, students learn all about the life
and times of this important scientist.
- LLEK
Bookmarks Scientific Search Engines - History - Catalog of journals,
catalogs, and other scholarly resources primarily in in German and English.
- Mrs. Ruland's Social
Studies Page - This site is for high school students studying Modern
World History and AP US History. Contains an extensive listing of Internet
resources and information on various writing and studying skills.
- National Center
for History in the Schools US History Standards - The standards
are both online and in print form.
- National History Day
- Non-profit academic program designed to promote the study of history.
Includes information on upcoming contests and participation, past winners,
and recommended links to history resources.
- Online
Classroom - Social studies lessons and links.
- Origins
of the Polytechnic University - Brief history of the origins and
development of polytechnic institutions.
- Our Documents - Featuring
100 milestone documents of American history from the National Archives.
Includes images of original primary source documents, lesson plans,
teacher and student competitions, and educational resources.
- Presidential Decision
- Truman's decision reviewed by students includes primary source documents,
decision charts and slide show. Problem solving activity to help students
decide on possible alternatives.
- Repositories
of Primary Sources - A listing of over 4000 web-sites describing
holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs,
and other primary sources for the research scholar.
- Schools History -
History of Britain and Europe 1066-2000; features activities, homework
help, and background on major events.
- Social Studies - This
page is designed for K-12 social studies teachers and students. It also
has information and topics that are useful to pre-service social studies
instructors and students. The World Wide Web offers almost unlimited
opportunities for social studies education and we hope that this page
will benefit both the novice and the experienced Web user.
- Social Studies Education:
National Council for the Social Studies - An information resource
for social studies teachers.
- Study Guide for Countdown
to Millennium: An Oral History project - This study guide serves
as a supplement to the radio series, Countdown to Millennium: An Oral
History project. This resource for teachers includes lesson plans, background
on oral history collection, instructions for video interviews and web
page construction, and links to oral history archives.
- Thomas Jefferson Online
- Enlightenment - Classroom activities from the Ken Burns' documentary
site.
- Tudor and Elizabethan
Times - Activities for schools based on images of Henry VIII and
his wives, Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Drake.
- Twentieth Century in
America - A group of internet activities covering the major events
of the 1900s in America.
- The Vietnam
War: Past and Present - Resource site for high school teachers provides
historical background and curriculum ideas.
- A Wanderer in a Sea of
Clouds - World history notes by Robert Shannon Sumner of the State
University of West Georgia.
- WebbieWorld:
History Education - Small annotated directory of websites of interest
to students and educators.
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