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"Boxers & Saints by Gene Luen Yang - Graphic Novel Trailer" Much like Persepolus- this offer the opportunity for IB English and IB History cross-curricular collaboration

I've got a new boss these days and she's getting us to use graphic organisers and reading strategies and such things. I was sceptical at first, but now I'm a convert. Do many people use graphic organisers in class?

I use them for thinking maps, to show how concepts and ideas are related, as flow charts when necessary, as a way to show comparisons and contrasts and as a way to show umbrella terms and then related terms.

I'm definitely a convert. I now spend the first half of each lesson going through the content and the second half skills-building using graphic organisers, summarising, etc.

This could be an excellent resource for making graphic organisers. 

A well-maintained and thorough collection provided by the US National Library of Medicine.

Digital collection of portraits, photographs, caricatures, genre scenes, posters, and graphic art illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine. Coverage: 15th to 21st century.

A great set of resources for teaching history. The kids love the flowcharts and the material is engaging. You buy them from www.teacherspayteachers.com for about 3 bucks each.

Flowcharts and power points describing what the website owner calls "the flow of history"-- a way to look at the causes and effects of history

A dynamic and graphic approach to teaching history.

Another one of the excellent collections provided by the Library of Congress. Gotta love 'em.

The By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 collection consists of 908 boldly colored and graphically diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal.

List of free resources on the Tudor Monarchs; presentations, graphic organizers, etc...

People don't realize how large Africa is. This graphic makes it very clear.

About 100 photos of action and its results from the Pacific theater and adjacent areas during WWII. Some of the shots are in color and some are very graphic.

Go to 'For AP World History Teachers' & login using the access code 'IbnBattuta.'

Excellent resources, graphic organisers, matrices, etc for history teachers no matter what system you teach in. The Change Analysis Charts and SPRITE have transformed my teaching.

This is a very interesting and unusual idea. Historians at Stanford have collected very specific and detailed information about historical events within short time frames and then produced graphic representations of these events that you can play over maps. It's very precise and perhaps too detailed for many high school level students to make sense of, however some of them helped show how historical phenomena occurred. Particularly chilling was the graphic showing slave purchases in the Rio slave market in the mid-C19th; you can see individual children being bought at specific times by specific people.

While to get the full version you must buy the curriculum for any given topic (which I will say I have found to be VERY worth the money they charge if you are interested in purchasing), for any given curriculum set, when you select it, on the right side you will see a box that says "supplemental materials". This is a link that gives you access to graphic organizers, video clips by historians, etc all good stuff you can use in your lessons!

Has a funky little map with information on the battles of the US Civil War. Would be cool for students (nice colours, movement, graphics, etc.)

This is an interactive animated map showing information on immigration into the US since the mid-19th century. You can choose a group and a time period and then get a map showing how those people setting in the country at that time.

Awesome visualizations of current events

This is an interesting site which will be engaging for students, I'd imagine. Has funky graphics and colourful movement. It is organised around several themes and then students can choose a civilisation to focus on. They them look through a series of images with accompanying information. Seeings it's by the British Museum it should be good quality information.