Knowledge: education
See Also:
- kids and teens → school time → social studies
- reference → education → k through 12 → educators → teaching resources → elementary → social studies
- reference → museums → history
- science → social sciences → education
Links
- Schools History
http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/ - History of Britain and Europe 1066-2000; features activities, homework help, and background on major events.
- Twentieth Century in America
http://library.thinkquest.org/50062/ - A group of internet activities covering the major events of the 1900s in America.
- Social Studies
http://www.indiana.edu/~socialst/ - 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.
- Online Classroom
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Campus/1580/ - Social studies lessons and links.
- Repositories of Primary Sources
http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html - A listing of over 4000 web-sites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.
- National Center for History in the Schools US History Standards
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/standards/ - The standards are both online and in print form.
- Colonial America - For Freedom and Profit
http://members.tripod.com/~Sunclaw/index.html - 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.
- Dwayne Voegeli's Social Studies Teacher's Page
http://jarviscomputer.com/voegeli/ - A collection of resources geared toward 9-12 grade educators.
- Adventure Learning Foundation
http://www.questconnect.org/ - Creates curricula which follow online adventure learning expeditions as they travel around the world. Includes resources for use in the K-12 classroom.
- Histor eSearch.com
http://www.historesearch.com/ - Directory of online history research resources for students and educators.
- WebbieWorld: History Education
http://webbieworld.com/ww/category.asp?category=Education&subcategory=History - Small annotated directory of websites of interest to students and educators.
- National History Day
http://www.nationalhistoryday.org/ - 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.
- AP History Online
http://ap_history_online.tripod.com/ - 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.
- Social Studies Education: National Council for the Social Studies
http://www.socialstudies.org/ - An information resource for social studies teachers.
- The Vietnam War: Past and Present
http://www.tappedin.org/info/teachers/vietnam1.htm - Resource site for high school teachers provides historical background and curriculum ideas.
- BC Social Studies Teachers' Association Top Links
http://www.bctf.bc.ca/psas/BCSSTA/ - Offers links to valuable lesson plans, research links and professional information to teachers interested in socials, history, geography, and comparative civilizations.
- Cultural / Educational Artefacts
http://www.artefacts.demon.co.uk/ - Created by teachers for teachers. Give students the opportunity to learn about history by feeling and touching actual parts of history.
- Study Guide for Countdown to Millennium: An Oral History project
http://www.tcomschool.ohiou.edu/cdtm - 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.
- History Matters
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/ - 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.
- Global Nomads Group
http://www.gng.org/ - GNG is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting international dialogue by partnering educators around the world. Includes a teacher survey and project overview.
- Best History Websites
http://www.besthistorysites.net/ - A portal created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts. Sites are rated for usefulness and accuracy, that will help studies or teachers in a wide variety of topics and periods in history.
- Digital Classroom
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/index.html - 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.
- Our Documents
http://www.ourdocuments.gov - 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.
- The Local Historical Archives Project (LHAP)
http://www.tielab.org/lhap - LHAP is a searchable database of historical images and documents, one that is largely compiled by students in grades 5-12. It is an educational project by which students create a local history resource available to anyone.
- American Heritage Education Foundation, Inc.
http://www.americanheritage.org - Provides free K-12 curriculum lessons by and for teachers in social studies, U. S. history/government, political science, philosophy, and economics. The curriculum educates students about America's factual, philosophical heritage.
- Junto Society
http://www.juntosociety.com - In-depth information and resources on historical dates and events, American documents, breaking news, political news, and other historical data.
- civilisations
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/interactive/civilisations/ - Civilisations is an entirely new way to explore human history - a multi-dimensional picture of the world, where you're in charge of the timeline.
- Crossroads - A K-16 American History Curriculum
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Social_Studies/US_History/crossro... - Recommended American history curriculum for kindergarten through college.
- Y-Vote Mock Elections UK 2004 - London, Local and European Elections
http://www.mockelections.co.uk - Y-Vote Mock Elections provide a chance for the younger generation to have their say in politics for the UK and Europe.
- Dramatic History or Historical Drama?
http://www.rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/mo133sep.htm - Article which argues that historians with dramatic skills should find ways to write plays about historical subjects rather than leaving such tasks to dramatists who mainly use historical figures to attract attention to their plays.
- History and Social Studies
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/historysocialstudies.htm - Small directory of educational sites for the student, genealogist and family historian.
- The Giant EHAP And AHAP Reviews
http://www.ehapreview.com - Susanna's summary of the entire AP European and American History Curriculum.
- Abby's Resource Page for Social Studies Teachers
http://home.alltel.net/abbysresources/ - Hundreds of links to history, social studies, and education sites on the Web. Links are indexed for easy searching. Also home of the History Teachers' Education Ring.
- Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ - Enhances history teaching and research through primary sources, an online textbook, extensive reference resources, and interactive materials.
- AMVETS Americanism Program
http://www.amvets.org/HTML/what_we_do/americanism.html - The program helps teach K-12 students about their American heritage, civics and citizenship through a series of contests where students design flags or posters and write essays, and win prizes.
- American History from 1899 High School Textbook
http://www.history4u.com - American History from 1899 perspective. Material from book has been broken down into 5 categories and any article is no more than 2 clicks away.
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