Classpress.net - 8 views
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David Hilton on 23 Dec 09Headlines and links to sites with stories about newsworthy topics in a wide variety of subjects.
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Unit 1 (AP World History) - 5 views
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Interesting example of using a class LMS.
Jules R. Benjamin, A Student's Online Guide to History Reference Sources, Eleventh Edition - 11 views
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Welcome to the Web site for A Student's Online Guide to History Reference Sources.
Adapted from the appendixes in A Student's Guide to History, Eleventh Edition, this site guides you to some of the best tools available for the most common research areas. -
A useful online guide which accompanies an excellent book written to introduce students to historical research and writing.
Jack London: Writings - 5 views
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on line books and stories of Jack London
BBC - Schools - Primary History - 8 views
The History Channel - 3 views
Groups in Education & Schools - Shelfari - 8 views
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Looks like a useful tool to motivate students to read.
Informationsplattform Open Access: Homepage - 4 views
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Collections of open access articles, sources and information organised by topics. Useful for research.
AP Courses - Advanced Placement Course Descriptions - 9 views
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Has descriptions of the United States AP courses. Even if you don't teach AP in the US they might be useful for you in course and assessment item design.
Royal Society - 7 views
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Trailblazing is a user-friendly, 'explore-at-your-own-pace', virtual journey through science. It showcases sixty fascinating and inspiring articles selected from an archive of more than 60,000 published by the Royal Society between 1665 and 2010.
StoryCorps - 24 views
The History of the Internet in a Nutshell - 13 views
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"Here's a brief history of the Internet, including important dates, people, projects, sites, and other information that should give you at least a partial picture of what this thing we call the Internet really is, and where it came from"
WatchKnow - Videos for kids to learn from. Organized. - 12 views
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educational videos sorted by age and subject
picturing the thirties - 14 views
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explore the 1930s with photos, paintings, newsreels and the like. Students can make their own documentaries
In Defense of Lecturing in the Social Studies Classroom - 8 views
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A timely defense of teacher-centred instruction. Surely the quality of instruction is more important than a fixation on its method? After having tried student-centred and me-centred teaching styles I have found overwhelmingly that the latter is more effective. I'm pretty entertaining though...
Our Courts - Homepage - 7 views
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aimed at middle school aged students
Historical Moments You Can Relive - 16 views
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Got a love of history, some extra time, no money, and an internet connection? Then check out these best 101 moments in history on video to relive at no charge. There are historical videos on the presidents, famous speeches, breakthrough moments in space exploration, along with moving moments in culture, all found easily on YouTube.
Talking History - 14 views
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"Over the past several years, History Matters has organized twenty-five online dialogues with leading historians and teachers about the the teaching of major topics in U.S. history--from early settlement to the Vietnam War. Those discussions are archived here and contain many useful teaching suggestions"
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Some useful tips on how to teach American history by seasoned professionals.
Education Week: Inverting Bloom's Taxonomy - 34 views
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A compelling analysis of how 'critical thinking' models are misused in the history classroom.
The Galileo Project - 8 views
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The Galileo Project is a source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Our aim is to provide hypertextual information about Galileo and the science of his time to viewers of all ages and levels of expertise. What you read and see here is a beginning -- we will continue to add and update information as it becomes available. We solicit contributions from our colleagues in the history of science and comments on how we can improve the project from everyone, particularly suggestions on how to make this tool more useful in primary and secondary education.
