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Great resource for current events.  

Interactive games created by Rice University.  Most of them are Science related but some of them are History.

This is going to be an amazing tool! Use engaging videos to create customized lessons. You can use, tweak, or completely redo any lesson featured on TED-Ed, or create lessons from scratch based on any video from YouTube. Watch the video to learn how.

The Economics Classroom App provides Introductory Economics students at the high school or university level with access to a variety of high quality resources for learning and studying

This is a helpful site for doing problem based learning.

one of the first attempts at game-based-learning... Monopoly's predecessor

New York Times lesson plans. Some of them look pretty good.

Geography frequently takes a back seat to history in the social studies classroom, but teaching geographic literacy is essential if students are going to understanding the challenges and opportunities of our complex world. We have created 10 activities for teaching about geography using Times content, all related to the National Geography Standards, which were produced by the Geography Education National Implementation Project. Our list is a grab-bag of ideas - from designing maps to analyzing border conflicts - and teachers can use the activities in any order, or as a road map for tracking ongoing coverage of geography-related issues.

Geoconferencing marries two well-known concepts: video conferencing and geocaching-an outdoor scavenger hunt in which students use GPS devices and mobile devices to travel to specific coordinates in order to locate hidden items known as travel bugs. Travel bugs have unique codes that owners and participants can use to track a bug's movement on geocaching.com.

Great resource I used on both Argo and Lincoln

just in time for halloween!

This is a tool that I am learning for possible research papers etc. Jill recommends it for high school students.