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Google's Ngram Viewer lets you search keywords in millions of books over the span of half a millennium, a useful tool for finding trends over time. For power users, the Ngram Viewer also has advanced options, such as searching for particular keywords as specific parts of speech or combining keywords.

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

Bougor - this reminded me of that box you guys always do at the start of the year... 

Great article about the future of education in the eyes of George Lucas. (Thanks for sharing Phil)

The National Geographic maps can be found in their own section of Google Maps Gallery, which launched officially on February 27. This includes reference maps, wall maps, National Geographic magazine supplement maps, and other creations from over the years, all laid on top of the relevant Google basemaps.

Interesting point of view - would make a good writing assignment for students to interpret US events from their own point of view!

West Wing clip explaining the inaccuracies of maps. Great clip.

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.

Micro-loans and family planning. Low cost & out of the box thinking to big problems

Micro-loans and family planning. Low cost & out of the box thinking to big problems

"Tinychat provides dead simple, free to use, video chat rooms that just work!"

I read an article about a month ago on when watching a video or movie in class, teachers were using a chat room to simultaneously discuss the movie. Tiny Chat is only one of many sites where you can create temporary chat rooms for the class and share the link to all of your students. At the end, many of these chat rooms disappear and the info gets cleared. What I liked about Tiny chat is that is also has the ability to show webcams, share Youtube videos, and you can create a whiteboard to share with the group so they can do some brainstorming.

This is the first in a series of articles from guest writer Stephen Berer focusing on literacies, fluencies, and projects for museums and classrooms. The following series of articles will discuss how to successfully use museums as multimedia classrooms, and how to bring the best of the museum experience back into your classroom.

"assessing 21st century skills with library of congress documents"

Different way to assess student understanding of some key historical events.

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

a great new feature in turnitin.com's grademark tools to support SBG - tie your comments within the paper to a specific part of the rubric

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

Cost of Healthcare in U.S.

Good quick check of knowledge and review