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Ten Free Things for Valentine’s DayMake February 14th a special day with classroom resources for all grades, including arts & crafts projects, creative writing ideas, historical resources, and more. | ||
Columbus DayColumbus Day is celebrated in the U.S., Spain, and many countries in Latin America. Whether Christopher Columbus is thought of positively or negatively depends on point-of-view. The following themed package presents a rangs of opinions. | ||
Choices for the 21st Century Education ProjectCurricular resources, professional development workshops, and special projects, focusing on empowering secondary level students in international issues and civic engagement. | Background Reading; Multimedia; Tool | |
WebExhibitsWebExhibits is an interactive and cross-curricular museum of science, humanities, and culture for K-12 and higher. Exhibits explore color, color vision, pigment, calendars, daylight savings time, poetry, Van Gogh’s letters, Bellini, and butter. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan | |
RACE - Are We So Different?Using this website, students in middle school and high school can examine concepts of race from perspectives of history, human variation, and personal experience. | Background Reading; Multimedia; Quiz | |
The Crogan AdventuresChris Schweizer’s blog for his series of historical graphic novels The Crogan Adventures includes a teaching guide, audio and video interviews with the author, and more. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan | |
The Story of StuffFind short online movies and other resources that explore key features of our relationship with stuff. Resources examine sustainability, national debt, corporate power and democracy, electronics, cosmetics, bottled water, and cap and trade. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan; Multimedia | |
BizKidsThis companion website to the television program of the same name offers resources for teaching business and money skills, including lesson plans, four online games, calculators, budgets, business plans, and more. | Background Reading; Learning Game; Lesson Plan; Multimedia | |
Computer History MuseumThe Computer History Museum maintains twelve online exhibits on a variety of topics related to the history of computing. | Background Reading | |
HippoCampusFree multimedia resources for middle school, high school, and college students on subjects like algebra, chemistry, history and government. Many of these resources would work well on an interactive whiteboard. | Background Reading; Multimedia | |
Bridging World HistoryBridging World History offers professional development and classroom materials to support the study of world history. It is organized into 26 thematic units. Materials include videos, an audio glossary and a thematically-organized interactive. | Background Reading; Multimedia | |
EarthPulse: State of The EarthEarthPulse: State of The Earth 2010 is a snapshot of Earth’s health and features features essays, photo galleries, vital statistics, and a quiz for grades 9-12. | Background Reading; Multimedia; Quiz | |
Teachers’ Resources from National ArchivesTeachers’ Resources is an element of the National Archives. Teachers will find lesson plans and other materials to engage students in doing history with primary sources. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan | |
Selected Civil War PhotographsThree photo collections from the Library of Congress present battle scenes, military personnel, politicians and cultural figures. Over 8,000 photographs are available. Related activities investigate the authenticity of some photographs. | Background Reading; Multimedia | |
Big Map BlogThis anthology of fascinating maps includes more than 600 maps; five new maps are added each week. Browse by category: Birdseyes, topographic, non-western, railroad, military, thematic maps and more, or search by keyword. | Background Reading | |
10 Inauguration Day ResourcesStudents in all grade levels learn about the Presidential Inauguration and how it has changed over time with our recommended activities, background resources, primary source documents, videos, printables, and more. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan; Quiz | |
Food FaceFood Face lets students create portraits in the style of 16th-century artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo. The application supplies a library of frames, backgrounds, and stamps of fruits and vegetables. | Background Reading; Learning Game; Multimedia | |
Ngram ViewerGoogle Books Ngram Viewer is a tool that searches for words and phrases in more than 20 million books and produces a graph showing how the words or phrases have occurred. Users can search published works in 8 languages over 5 centuries. | Background Reading | |
Women Artists, Composers & PoetsThree websites highlight the contributions of women to the fine arts, musical composition, and poetry and make excellent resources for teaching Women’s History Month. | Background Reading; Multimedia | |
Teachinghistory.orgLooking for Civil War lesson plans? Primary source materials related to the New Deal? Or maybe new ways to incorporate technology into your teaching? Teachinghistory.org can help you find all this and more, including videos and Q&A with experts. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan; Multimedia | |
Explore the RMS TitanicThe 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic (April 15, 2012) offers a unique teaching opportunity, and a variety of websites offer online resources, including historical documents, multimedia activities, printables, lesson plans, and more. | Background Reading; Multimedia | |
Memorial Day InfographicsStudents can use a variety of infographics to learn the history of Memorial Day and investigate wartime sacrifice. Resources also include suggestions for designing your own inofraphic, using readily available statistics and online tutorials. | Background Reading; Multimedia | |
Radical CartographyYale historian and cartographer Bill Rankin offers a unique approach to cartography with his website Radical Cartography. After exploring Radical Cartography, students can use other online map-making tools to create customized projects. | Background Reading; Multimedia | |
ArtThinkThe San Francisco Museum of Modern Art provides theme-based activities for students in grades 4 and above at the ArtThink website. The site encourages a close study of visual art and asks students to make connections with literature and history. | Background Reading; Lesson Plan; Multimedia | |
Finding Information on the InternetUC Berkeley Library offers an online tutorial covering search strategies, search tools, recommendations for evaluating web pages and other resources that will be of interest to educators and secondary students. | Background Reading |
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