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Wanted to share a US History blog of a Twitter "friend" of mine from Cary Academy in NC. (I have actually met her in person so I feel like can use the term friend) This is a blended learning class (1/2 classroom instruction and 1/2 online)  Some of her projects remind me of the types of projects in the 7th grade curriculum. 

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good animation is worth ten thousand. After reading book after book about the Revolutionary War and finding only complicated maps with dotted lines and dashed lines crisscrossing the pages, we decided to depict the key naval and land battles using animation technology.

Watched Lexington & Concord; what fun. This makes an appreciation for the role of geography in battle very visible. Hope they get to D Day soon. Used to have a mock Civil War battle on a map w/ students; this would be great to be able to utilize.

Read information about the kings and Queens of England, Scotland and the UK using this interactive timeline. Just click on the images to find out more about that king or queen.

This product, schmoop, was sited at the AP conference as a study aid and place for teacher resources. 

 How Do You Piece Together the History of the Civil War? This 24"x36" poster demonstrates some uses of primary documents and artifacts for reconstructing the history of the Civil War.