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Online tutorials for learning how to use Google Earth plus lesson content for K-12 science, math, social studies and ELA.

The History Lab™ is an online template where teachers can build primary-sourse based lessons and activities for use by their students. Teachers can store their lessons in the History Lab database and retrieve or modify them at any time. The History Lab™ is free for use by all K-12 teachers and university professors who believe in the educational power of primary sources -- the raw materials of history -- and are seeking an effective, pedagogically sound way to incorporate them into their classes.

Lessons for how to use Google Earth in Social Studies

The Go For Broke National Education Center collection contains well-designed, engaging, standards-aligned, creative lessons that teach students about the experiences of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Beyond the historical content that is covered through research, videos, and readings, students have the opportunity to discuss key values such as self-reliance, teamwork, and loyalty. Highlights include a role-playing activity about volunteering for the military, an experiential exercise on teamwork, and an animated movie with documentary footage of the rescue of the lost battalion.

Lessons by Eras

Discover the Stories of New Americans The New Americans Web site offers an educational adventure for students in grades 7-12. The site supplements the PBS documentary series, which explores the immigrant experience through personal stories. Interactive sections of the site allow students to explore the immigration experience through a timeline, maps and activities in tracking family history and examining the effect of immigration on the nation. Eleven lesson plans involve students in activities such as analyzing factual data or conducting oral histories of first- or second-generation immigrants. For workplaces, schools and community organizations that would like to use shorter stories from The New Americans to increase understanding of recent immigrants, Active Voice and Kartemquin Films offer three brief, themed Video/DVD Modules and Discussion Guides for a nominal fee.

Journey back in time and around the globe! This expanding collection of video segments, activities and lesson plans from public television and its partners brings alive selected topics in U.S. and world history

a set of interdisciplinary social studies lesson plans that utilize a set of historic photos of American children taken between 1900 and 1920.

On this page, you can share your experiences and opinions about the new curriculum materials, ACT, ANALYZE, ACT: A BLUEPRINT FOR 21st CENTURY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, developed by PBS Teachers and the Media Education Lab. Your feedback and reflections on the lesson plans, videos and interactive quiz will help us improve our curriculum.

T he modules cover more than twenty topics that correspond to the major periods in American history and take into consideration the history standards, both required and advanced, to which high school students are held. Each module includes: a succinct historical overview learning tools including lesson plans, quizzes, and activities recommended documents, films, and historic images

For teachers: explorations, classroom handouts, learning modules, lesson plans, resource guides
Multimedia:  E-lectures, Film trailers, Flash movies, games database, historical music.
Active Learning:  Conduct inquires, create exhibits, Do History through...
Interactive timeline
Visual History
Reference Room: Biographies, Book Talks, Chonologies, Maps, Museums, Speeches,  & more.

Lesson plans and teaching activities
How to teach with documents
How to collaborate with the National Archives

Great website for hands-on, creative lessons in Economics