History
Historical Methodologies
- Smithsonian in your Classroom: Decoding the past using the skills of archaeologists.
- The Biography Maker: Help students write biographies.
- Think Quest: Archaeology Adventures
- National Park Service: Focused on archaeology and ethnography and on preserving archaeological treasures.
- National Park Service: “Teaching with Historic Places.” May be used both to find generic strategies pertaining to teaching using historic places as a resource & to find all sorts of specific lesson plans for teaching about specific historic places pertaining to different eras of history.
- The Learning Page: From the Library of Congress
- Library of Congress: For teachers, has information about the nature of primary & secondary sources.
World History
- St. Louis Art Museum
- ThinkQuest: Mathematics History
- The Cave at Lascaux: Prehistoric humankind
- Mrs. Donn's: The Life and Times of Early Man: Daily life in various ancient cultures, which is accompanied by many links to those cultures.
- The History Page: Offers a fantastic array of links to sites that span the periods of antiquity; the medieval and Renaissance eras; early modern times; and modern day. In addition to special links on a wide range of historians & philosophers, the site also points out the importance of women in the various historical epochs.
- History Link 101: Focused on ancient world history
- Ancient Egypt
- Web Quest: A classroom research project focused on ancient Egypt designed for the middle school level
- PBS Nova series: Focused on Egyptian pyramids
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology & Anthropology: Ancient Greek Olympics
- History for Kids: Ancient Greece for Middle School Students
- Industrial Revolution
Combined U.S. & World History
- Eyewitness: Presents eyewitness accounts of historical events in print, in spoken word, & in photographs.
- HistoryCentral.com: Items related to the teaching of world and U.S. history.
- The History Channel: Great speeches from U.S. and world history
- EdSiteMent: National Endowment for the Humanities
- Scholastic: For students entitled “History Mystery”
- The History Place: Many features of interest, such as “This Month in History,” “Photo of the Week,” “Speech of the Week,” and “Main Exhibits."
- Education World’s list of history links
- Discoverer's Web: Exploration throughout history focused not only on explorers of Western nations
- The History Channel
- KMOS - Conquistadors: Meet the Conquistadors as well as the indigenous peoples they encountered
- National Center for History in the Schools of UCLA: The organization that developed the national standards for history.
- ExplorePAhistory.com Search Pennsylvania history resources and lesson plans; & standards-based curriculum resources for elementary through high school.
U.S. History (General Sites)
- The National Assessment of Educational Progress
- “History Matters” from George Mason University with funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation designed for H.S. & college teachers of U.S. History survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers unique teaching materials.
- Discovering American History
- The Library of Congress: "American Memory.” (Note: The link called “Thomas” could be used to find current bills introduced in Congress.)
- National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places
- Heritage studies
- Great speeches in American history
- Library of Congress website for kids
- Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
- National Archives
- Smithsonian: Could be used for history studies
- National Park Service: Military history with sketches of NPS military history sites
- National Park Service: Focused on the Piedmont region of the United States, about the artifacts and people who lived there.
- Technology at Home: Information about technologies that have changed the consumer household in the U.S.
- Back in Time: Provides ideas for a Web Quest activity that may be used in conjunction with U.S. history and perhaps other subject matter in social studies
- New Americans Having individual stories, immigration past and present, information about how to research family history, and a teachers guide with lesson plans.
- American Studies Association
- AwesomeStories.com takes relevant source material from archives, libraries, museums & institutions and presents it within the context of clear, concise, entertaining stories. Short chapters and lots of links to external sources will help keep students interested.
U.S. History (Minorities)
- Americans All Timelines & historical information pertaining to the diverse minority groups in the United States for the nation as a whole and for each individual state.
- Carnegie Museum of Natural History
- Never Again: Students Explore the Slavery Experience
- Black History Month with a number of biographical references that should be of interest to teachers
- Black American history
- Little Rock 9: Ideas on how to teach about the issue of racial desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957
- Library of Congress: For teachers pertaining to the life of Jackie Robinson, which also has information about the nature of primary and secondary sources.
- African American History Challenge
- National Women’s Hall of Fame
U.S. History (Chronological)
- Effigy Mounds National Monument (Iowa) with teaching ideas pertaining to archaeology and prehistory
- “Passages: A Treasure Trove of North American Exploration, focused on exploration in North America from Columbus to Amundsen (1908).
- Colonial America from Education World’ Millennium Series
- The American Revolution from PBS