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Welcome To The Center For Teaching History With TechnologyEdTechTeacher presents The Center for Teaching History with Technology, a resource created to help K-12 history and social studies teachers incorporate technology effectively into their courses. Find resources for history and social studies lesson plans, activities, projects, games, and quizzes that use technology. Explore inquiry-based lessons, activities, and projects. Learn about web technologies such as blogs, podcasts, wikis, social networks, Google Docs, ebooks, online maps, virtual field trips, screencasts, online posters, and more. Explore innnovative ways of integrating these tools into the curriculum, watch instructional video tutorials, and learn how others are using technology in the classroom!

In just a few hundred years, humans have dramatically changed our planet.  Though global warming gets most of the news coverage, another major impact is the loss of habitat for many of the world's animal species.  Here is a collection of videos you can use when talking about this topic with your students. via ​James Sanders G+

"Seventeen Moments in Soviet History contains a rich archive of texts, images, maps and audio and video materials from the Soviet era (1917-1991). The materials are arranged by year and by subject, are fully searchable, and are translated into English. Students, educators, and scholars will find fascinating materials about Soviet propaganda, politics, economics, society, crime, literature, art, dissidents and hundreds of other topics. more"

" Rationing of food and other goods during World War Two changed the social landscape of Britain for a generation, creating a national culture of ingenuity, austerity and making-do. "

"Explore the key events of the Battle of Britain with clips from over 50 years of BBC television and radio programmes "

WE would need a proxy server for this in the Uk

"What do you want to know today?" A great website full of information and videos for History. It is free but will contain adds. If you want a free account for your class. just link it to the the class blog or site.

Would you and your class like Kidipede better without the ads? The subscription version of Kidipede is completely ad-free. You can get a free subscription - good all year, for your whole class - by just linking to Kidipede from your school webpage.

People in business

some good looking info, however the videos are 'not available in this area' ?!

khan academy videos on balance sheet

A great youtube channel full of business and economics videos, many episodes to choose from and explanations are very clean and simple

Government's Financial Condition : Difference between debt and operating costs. Seeing how large obligation

market structures video

elasticity video

spent 5 minutes trying to load up and couldn't :-(

"Enjoy these stories as you see thousands of hand-selected and relevant pictures, slide-shows, videos, audio-clips, documents and other primary sources linked, in context, where you need them."

Free access to many of the primary resources, however site membership to have access to everything on the site is paid.

"Animaps extends the My Maps feature of Google Maps by letting you create maps with markers that move, images and text that pop up on cue, and lines and shapes that change over time. When you send your Animap to friends it appears like a video - they can play, pause, slow and speed up the action!"

World war 1 crash course

This site explores current evidence about the effects of globalisation on the UK, focusing in particular on communities and the experience of people in poverty. It also includes a link to a short video (for inspiration) - might be a little biased (against Globalisation)

A half hour animated documentary that covers the science of oil production, resource deletion and growth. Perfect for discussions and lessons about sustainability.

" Yale University Courses YaleCourses's Channel"