History Teachers

Excellent!

Awesome! Thanks for this one.

"If Facebook Existed Years Ago"--An interesting and humerous look at potential Facebook posts, comments, and likes from historical time periods and events.

Animated maps, perfect for illustrating historical events

This looks awesome! I emailed our district head of this kind of stuff so they could check it out! let us know how your students like it!

Like it. Wish they were free though, but not much is now-a-days.

great history and social studies resources

A great map, but it can better be seen in the Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library: http://maps.bpl.org/ http://maps.bpl.org/details_14001/?srch_query=slavery&srch_fields=all&srch_style=exact&srch_fa=save Enjoy!

This site rocks! You'll never use PowerPoint again. It takes a while to get used to, but the effort is worth it. I've done up this presentation for my year 11s to introduce them to history. I plan on playing 'Golden Years' by David Bowie and 'Think About It' by Flight of the Conchords in the background as a soundtrack. I'm guessing that you could edit and use it if you wanted. Pretty cool!

VERY COOL!!!! I'm sure it took a LOT of time to create!!! It's awesome! Thanks for sharing it!

Contains over 1000 full-length feature films that can be downloaded for free. They are all in the public domain.

A quite cool history essay planning tool on Russell Tarr's website www.activehistory.co.uk.

The site re-sizes land areas to reflect different characteristics, e.g., population, wealth, birth rates, religion, etc. Helps students visualize.

Cool online simulations, though I see them more as "Choose your own adventure" types...still I think students will like them! Even come with short answer questions and quizzes!!!

Cool resource for "choose your own adventure" type simulations online where students can read about history, but feel like they are navigating through it! Comes with short answer and quiz questions to check comprehension

This is an interactive website from the Massachusetts Historical Society.

What a great site Bob. Thank you for sharing. I am certain I can use this site for ideas in the classroom!

I worked on it this summer. I especially recommend the docs for "non-consumption and non-importation" (the word boycott did not exist yet!). They are very student friendly and can be used in a U.S. history or world history class and can easily connect with boycotts today. Overall, this site could be used as an exemplar for other historical societies to follow: Intro to the whole site, intro to each topic, intro to each subtopic with questions, intro to each document with questions, a facsimile of each document, and a transcription. Fyi and fwiw, the Mass Historical Society will be hosting a Landmarks Institute this summer through NEH so U.S. teachers might want to apply: http://www.masshist.org/education/silver/crossroads-home/

cute idea for teaching history - primary documents with question in case file

these are GREAT!!!! I've used some of them before - students really like them.

Not strictly history-related however has many tools that might be useful for history teachers.