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Amithosian Education ahs some great resources. This website focuses on Asian pacific issues related to history, but they also have Hispanic American, American indian, Black History, and Women's History.

Videos of scholars discussing primary sources and great lessons on how to teach primary documents in the US History class. Bookmarked!

This is an excellent resource for lesson plans and educational tools related to North Carolina history.

Collection of short stories about the history of science.  Most of them look a little challenging, but I see the potential for using them as seminar pieces in science.

Thanks, Kirsten! This will come in very handy in the next few days. We just had our Curriculum and Development class on how to plan a seminar today, and we'll need to plan a few later this week.

While I would have liked more detail, this is a great example of a inquiry based project designed collaboratively by the librarian, history teacher, english teacher and environmental science teacher.

WOW! This looks incredible so far.  Just the other day at the Social Studies PLC Theo was talking about the importance of globally oriented primary sources for World History and I didn't have much to offer.  This looks like a potential gold mine. 

This is a great website to learn about the history of Durham and especially the Lakewood neighborhood. Use this for neighborhood studies and to learn about where we live!

Love this site! There is so much that is hidden about Durham. Can't wait to teach it next year.

Not sure about whther or not you will incorporate Twitter into your PLN? Read this artciel for the basics.  The Hyperlinks look great!

formulate historical questions, gather data from a variety of sources, evaluate and interpret data and support interpretations with historical evidence war, slavery, states' rights and citizenship and immigration policies the founding fathers, the Regulators, the Greensboro Four, and participants of the Wilmington Race Riots, 1898 debate, compromise, and negotiation westward movement, African slavery, Trail of Tears, the Great Migration and Ellis and Angel Island technology and other innovations affected individuals and groups in North Carolina and the United States physical features, culture, political organization and ethnic make-up environmental disasters, infrastructure development, coastal restoration and alternative sources of energy economic depressions and recessions credit, savings, investing, borrowing and giving limited government, popular sovereignty, separation of powers, republicanism, federalism and individual rights the Mecklenburg Resolves, the Halifax Resolves, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Bill of Rights and the principles outlined in the US Constitution and North Carolina Constitutions of 1776, 1868 and 1971 Federalists and anti-Federalists, education, immigration and healthcare enslaved people, women, wage earners, landless farmers, American Indians, African Americans and other ethnic groups picketing, boycotts, sit-ins, voting, marches, holding elected office and lobbying voting rights and access to education, housing and employment human and civil rights issues Columbian exchange, slavery and the decline of the American Indian populations Moravians, Scots-Irish, Highland Scots, Latino, Hmong, African, and American Indian women, religious groups, and ethnic minorities such as American Indians, African Americans, and European immigrants

The Library of Congress is an amazing resource for primary sources to use in instruction, and this blog post from the LOC gives you several easy shortcuts for how to get to them.

The idea behind POM is that the whole school is working on the same problem throughout the month. The problem is leveled, so students can dig as deep into the problem as they are able and all students can have some success. This would be an interesting way to create school culture and create discourse between grade levels and communities.

Kirsten, this reminds me of the "poem of the day" or "history fact of the day" approach that many schools use. I LOVE that there would be a complex school wide math problem. I can also see this being used in the glass house, as a central area of learning.

Great example of using technology to innovate your instruction.