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Collection of TED talks for social studies teachers.

Monday is President's Day in the United States. In celebration of that day, Google has published a new kmz file containing images and links to information about each former President of the United States. You can download the file and launch it in Google Earth or view it here using the Google Earth browser plug-in. The file shows where each president was from, offers an image of each president, provides a link to more information about each president, and shows how many states were in the Union when each president was elected.

Talking History, based at the University at Albany, State University of New York, is a production, distribution, and instructional center for all forms of "aural" history. Our mission is to provide teachers, students, researchers and the general public with as broad and outstanding a collection of audio documentaries, speeches, debates, oral histories, conference sessions, commentaries, archival audio sources, and other aural history resources as is available anywhere.

Sign up under 'Get involved' at the top of this page to receive notifications when new resources are available. Our teaching resources include captions to increase learning and literacy benefits for students. We are currently working with teachers to build our resources for primary and secondary schools across a number of different subjects.

Ever the bane of teachers, wikipedia can be mined for more information using these tools.

Equally relevant and useful for NSW HSC students & teachers

Materials for SS teacher

Children & Youth in History is a world history resource that provides teachers and students with access to sources about young people from the past to the present.

Interesting information that is lesser known from the US CIvil War.