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This is awesome.

This is a good website that includes stories about "every day" heroes and from many diferent cultures.

Hello. I guess I am seeing if this works and I also liked this because it is a quick visual to see the growth of our nation. There are other links as well to see. I found a Civil War one which I might use for my research.

This is awesome! What a great find, thanks for sharing.

Animated map of US history.

This is just a general resource on best practice in education. It applies, certainly, to Social Studies instruction but is a great overall resource to have for knowing what is most likely to work!

Democracy is contingent on having an educated populace in the 20th and 21st centuries. Therefore, knowing how to effectively teach is incumbent on those of us trying to support this part of our society.

What do you think of this homework policy idea? I've often thought that soon we will be able to assign movies as homework and just have students watch a 2 hour movie at home and then process it in school rather than using critical time with them for the viewing part. I know that seems far away for some areas, but in the metro area I think we are getting close.

It goes back to that 1 out of 100 video. So many people do not have technology whenever they like. It makes me nervous that the more we phase out traditional, and include technological, the wider the learning gap might become? Also, I'm not sure how parents would feel about their children being on the computer or TV at night after school for a 'school' related project. Whether parents capitalize on evening hours or not, that might be the only little bit of time students have to interact with their parents during the day, I wouldn't want to take that away.

Tool for creating visuals of vocabulary. Thanks Wanda!

"Mission:Science Homepage NASA.gov Homepage NASA Science Be A Scientist Get Involved Games and Activities Multimedia "

Interactive material on the history of immigration to the United States.

Thanks to Jennifer B for this content!

This site has so many great uses. Not only can the teacher use it for some background information, but it is interactive. This feature will make it great for use by students also.

Thanks to Jennifer B for this interactive timeline of MN history link.

Thanks for this!! Great for Minnesota History!

Quick reference on wars of the US

Beware the advertising on the site, but the demo would be very helpful for some class topics on European history, regionalism, or change over time lessons.