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Long list of sites related to the study of American History. The selected websites have been recommended and vetted by TAH Teacher-Historians.

It is not only about the finished product. The process of how students engaged in meeting a task is equally as important.

"Dipity is a free digital timeline website. Our mission is to organize the web's content by date and time. Users can create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps."

Collaborative way to create a digital timeline

Interactive site explores slavery and particulary the underground railroad

Wonderful interactive site that explores slavery and underground railroad. Links to many other resources.

Great site for evaluating websites.

This site is really helpful! This is a winner!

Links to many different history websites from presidential libraries to games to social studies blogs and so much more!

"The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the use of Howard Zinn's best-selling book A People's History of the United States and other materials for teaching a people's history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. The Zinn Education Project is coordinated by two non-profit organizations, Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change. Its goal is to introduce students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of United States history than is found in traditional textbooks and curricula. The empowering potential of studying U.S. history is often lost in a textbook-driven trivial pursuit of names and dates. Zinn's A People's History of the United States emphasizes the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements in shaping history. Students learn that history is made not by a few heroic individuals, but instead by people's choices and actions, thereby also learning that their own choices and actions matter."

Visual of how Democracy has spread throughout the world

This is a very interesting visual. Students could predict what they think will happen next in the post modern era.

There is so much here on explorers from the Vikings to Columbus to Lewis and Clark and more!

This site really has lots to explore and discover (no puns intended!)

Pilot program for the state of Virginia

Real-time public document. Collaborate with peers

"If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good animation is worth ten thousand. After reading book after book about the Pacific 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."

Cite discusses ways to incorporate tech into lessons on Civil War.

Writing Beyond Expectations

Scott I see diigo as one way of achieving this. It gets students to reflect on what others have written and they can respond to others. But there are other tools to do this as well. The conversations going on in Jen's AP class are amazing. Almost 150 conversations to date!

It is not reforming but about rethinking education as a way to make substantive change in our current system.

Great points. We need to get everyone in the social studies dept. linked in here. Many of them have signed up for diigo but didn't join this group.

"US History Tours powered by Google Earth. This new format traces historical developments across time, touching down on locations vital to our nation's heritage and development. Points of interest in each tour launch primary and multimedia sources"

Innovation through Algebra