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Human Rights 101 - new from Thirteen Online - includes projects, curriculum, info
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Center for History & New Media - fabulous tools for the teacher, projects, resources
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Teacher's Domain - this growing, FREE set of multimedia resources currently contains primary source materials to support the study fo Civil Rights in the US
Cool Stuff - "The Best Educational Resources on the Web" - this is a teacher-to-teacher resource, covering all levels and subjects
- Daily Activities: Social Studies - have an activity, image, historical tidbit, quotation (MORE!) delivered to you daily - a wide variety of content
- General Reference Sites for Middle School Student Searching - links to encyclopedias, maps, dictionaries, biographies
- Internet Public Library - current resource listings of just about everything - try the Online Newspapers
- Lives, the Biography Resource - claims to be the largest guide to biography sites on the Web - posthumous only - includes links to diaries, oral histories, journals
- National Geographic Map Machine - powerful online world atlas, now including space and a search feature - your school zip code, for example, can lead to as many as 20 different types of map images (free and online) from a variety of sources
- NewsDirectory.com - portal site for media services, including links to searchable newspaper archives, online magazines, TV networks - when you locate a resource, be sure to remove the frames by clicking on the button provided
- NPR - National Public Radio site contains programming notes, archives, program listening online - fabulous resource
- ResearchBuzz - interesting weekly postings, many pointing to new databases and search engines
- United Streaming - maintains a library of standards-aligned short videos, searchable by topic - membership required for school use - membership includes a tools for building quizzes and understanding assessments around videos
Virtual Trips of special interest to History
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Full Listing of Virtual Trips
- ArchNet - archaeological and historical museum listing - many have virtual tours - international
- Center
for Puppetry Arts Education provides k-12 virtual instruction in topics
such as hands-on puppet building, social studies topics (Africa, Native
America, India), and puppetry topics - Middle and Upper School programs
are available
- Creative Connections Project - Online School Field Trips - Rain Forest, Africa, China, Galapagos - this is a classroom-to-classroom connection - email, images, art and information exchanges
- Explore the Pyramids
- Interactive adventure from National Geographic
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Innovative Teaching: The Best Virtual Field Trips - large listing - international
- MuseumStuff.com - locator for virtual museum exhibits - by topic
- Museum of Television and Radio offers distance education opportunities for k-12 (video conferencing) that draw upon their vast collection of vido and audio clips to expore themes such as advertising, presidential campaigns and civil rights
- Virtual Field Trips - social studies and geography, most the Americas - from the University of Mary
- Virtual Field Trips - elementary level listings for Social Studies, Science and Art - up to date and subdivided by topic - the site includes planning tips and activity template
- Virtual
Tours - a listing developed by Right In Class and Carolyn Hinshaw -
also visit RealTime
Tours of cities and explore the site, which is dedicated to moving education
outside of the classroom
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Virtual Egypt - this is fabulous
- includes some tools for students or groups to record and personalize -
crashed in IE 5.2 on OS X - but OK in Safari
- AEMS List of k-12 Multimedia Resources - Asian Educational Media Services - from University of Illinois - in addition to the selective bibliography of available materials, you will find Web Resources
- ASIA
FOR EDUCATORS - wonderful new resource from Columbia University
- 50 States - good data and basic facts resource - includes blank outline maps
- American Memory - primary source collection from the Library of Congress digital library - many lesson plans and interactive activities on the Learning Page make use of this vast digital resource
- American Women's History: a Research Guide
- AMIDOCS - Documents for the Study of American History - want to replace your packets? This is one of the 1st stops for active full-text documents online
- Congress for Kids - that's what it is - interactive activities suitable for upper elementary and middle school
- Digital History - includes an online textbook - teacher recommended for Middle School - images, media, primary source docs
- EDSITEment - lesson plans for US History study from the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History - includes video and audio files, timeline
- The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - resources, primary sources, timelines - go to History online
- HarpWeek
- Harper's Weekly has made digitized articles and images from its magazine
available for free. Topics include Immigration (Chinese), Black Americans,
Westward Expansion, Elections, and cartoons by Nast.
- The History Makers - African-American history focus - primary documents, video, audio, photographs, timeline
- History Matters: The U.S. Survey on the Web - primary sources, syllabi, guides to using materials and more
- From
Revolution to Reconstruction: a HyperHistory on the USA - from the Netherlands!
Worth a look
- History Text Archive - optional fee supports this archive of e-books, articles and links
- Justice
Learning - Civics materials and lesson plans from NPR and NYTimes Learning
Network - topics include racial relations, death penalty, voting rights,
women's rights, gun control and more in archives - primary source materials,
resources and teaching materials - a rich archive that will support a course
- NARA Digital Classroom - Teaching With Documents - resources from our National Archive
- Smithsonian - History and Culture (Kids) - highlights specific topics, with activities and virtual tours - also check out Talk Back Classroom - where students can participate in an interactive discussion and webconference on a topic (citizenship)
- SNAP
-Student and Native American Partnerships - for studying Native Americans
in the classroom - guides, resources and links to k-12 resource pages -
good articles like "Do's and Don'ts for Teachers" - from Vanderbuilt
- US Census Bureau - State and County QuickFacts
- US History Links - collected by teacher Mr. Remmell of Santa Margarita Catholic HS - contains organized links, many to primary document sources and audio archives
- The War on the Walls - WWI posters have been digitized by Temple University - fabulous visual document resource as well as essays
- Argos - Ancient and Medieval Studies - the search engine has died for lack of funding, but you will still find here a portal to important resource sites
- Mr. Donn's Ancient History - with Mr. Lee, Mr. Donn provides links, lessons plans and more
- EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents From Western Europe - begins with Medieval period - from Brigham Young University Library
- History Trails, from the BBC History site - interactive learning adventures covering topics such Victorian England, Civil Wars, Archaeology
- United States and Brazil - this is the home for an exciting new internation partnership spearheaded by the Library of Congress and its equivalent in Brazil - history, culture, ecology and other issues will be explored jointly via documents, artifacts and articles - side-by-side English, Portuguese
- ArchNet - archaeological and historical museum listing - many have virtual tours - international
- Best
of History Web Sites - annotated listing with ratings, from teacher
Tom Daccord
- BBC Interactive History Site - world history - History Trails focus upon European History - much of this is interactive - History for Kids makes topics understandable for elementary school
- Daryl Gagle's Professional Cartoonists Index - view current & archived political and social cartoons and read about cartooning
- Digital History - historical newspaper articles, primary documents, much more - all searchable
- The Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval and Modern - Sixth Edition - e-text available from Bartleby.com
- Gifts
of Speech - women's speeches from around the world - from Sweet Briar
College
- Global Gateway - the Library of Congress presents its extensive holding through a country, region and cultural perspective - be sure to review the listing of Cybercasts, which are archived speeches and presentations on a variety of cultural and historical topics, many of them in response to current events and questions
- Historical Text Archive - includes photographs, articles, e-texts, links, primary documents - American, Latin American, Mexican, African, more...
- History Link 101 - portal site for history - cultural, topical and categorical listings
- History Online - Links to virtual tours, primary sources
- History/Social Studies Web for k-12 Teachers - Portal site, generally not annotated, covering many areas - good map resources - k12 Resources are exhaustive
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HyperHistory Online - interactive timeline of history, events, people, maps covering world cultures throughout history - great for What Was Happening When discussions
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project - public domain and copyright free materials (Ancient, Medieval, Modern) - primary documents
- Kidon Media - links to news sources world wide
- Landmarks For Schools - data sources, including literature, advertisement text, images, raw data - includes a how-to use the data in a word processor or spreadsheet
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Listening to the Walls Talk Project - this is a yearly collaborative
project to enhance Geography Instruction - following the
links on this page will yield lesson plans and information about teaching
geography - Middle School
- Lives,
the Biography Resource - claims to be the largest guide to biography
sites on the Web
- Map Resources - links to online maps - Global SchoolNet
- National Geographic - maintains an educational site with many interactive activities and lesson plans, plus a library of primary documents (photos, maps, etc.) from its publications
- Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection - world and historical, political and outline - from the University of Texas Library
- School Wise Schools - Peace Corps lessons dedicated to teaching students about world cultures
- Speech Archives - Hear the words that changed the world! - from the History Channel
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Thirteen ed online - from pbs 13, links to resources that support programming
- Timeliner Online - provides students with links to online timelines across history and cultures
- UN News Center - links to maps, video tapes of interviews and conferences, summit reports, more
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Virtual Museums - actual virtual gallery tours (as opposed to museum web site online) - you will need to scroll through the random list for those of historical interest
- Virtual Museum Exhibits - indexed by subject
- World History Archives - collection of "documents for teaching and learning about world history from a working-class and non-Eurocentric perspective."
- The World Wide Virtual Library: History - from the University of Kansas - a vast resource by country or region, period, material type
- The World Wide Web Virtual Library History and Images Index - especially for European History
- CIA - The World Factbook
- EDGAR - US Securities and Exchange Commission - global business facts from required filing
- Finding International Statistics Online - a portal site
- Geography Site - put your classroom on the map at this English site
- Gov Stats - links to US stats - a wider range is found at Government Public Library - both are part of the Government Information Sharing Project
- Patent Grants - PatFT - databased of filed and granted patents
- Public Records Bureau - indexed searching of US, state, Canadian, and some Internation record databases
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Smart Planet: Understanding the USA - lively graphical representation
of data about many facets of the US - skip the intro - download .pdf files
of each chapter
- Statistical Abstract of the US - part of the US Census site
- Statistics and Demographics - portal from Michigan librarians
- TerraViva! Commercial source of web-based mapping, geography and other data
- US Census Bureau - or try the simpler U.S.Gazetter search of the 1990 census compared to the Census 2000 Gateway
- World Atlas from About.com
- Yahoo Neighborhood Profiles - amazing amount of data for your town and others
Kids News Room - for k-6
FactCheck.org - nonprofit watchdog organization monitors USpolitical news, ads, etc. for information accuracy
Online Newspapers from the Internet Public Library
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Newseum Today's Front Pages - today's front page from over 600 newspapers in 40 countries
All Africa.com - pan-Africa news site - in French or English - start with How to use this Site - be sure to look in the sidebars for focus topics
NYTimes - International |
BBC UK edition |
NY Times - National |
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