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"University of Wisconsin Professor Diana Hess has published Controversy in the Classroom: The Democratic Power of Discussion (Routledge, 2009). The longitudinal study of high school students that is a major source of data for this book was partly funded by CIRCLE. Hess argues that planned, moderated discussions of controversial issues teach essential democratic skills. She provides research-based advice about how to define "controversial issues" and handle them in classrooms."

"University of Wisconsin Professor Diana Hess has published Controversy in the Classroom: The Democratic Power of Discussion (Routledge, 2009). The longitudinal study of high school students that is a major source of data for this book was partly funded by CIRCLE. Hess argues that planned, moderated discussions of controversial issues teach essential democratic skills. She provides research-based advice about how to define "controversial issues" and handle them in classrooms."

Five Ways to Visually Explore Wikipedia When used properly, Wikipedia can be a good place for students to start researching and exploring a topic. But, not every student enjoys reading and clicking on links embedded in an article. Fortunately, there are some good tools that those students can use to visually explore Wikipedia's contents. Here are five ways that students can visually explore Wikipedia.

The History Engine is an educational tool that gives students the opportunity to learn history by doing the work-researching, writing, and publishing-of a historian. The result is an ever-growing collection of historical articles or "episodes" that paints a wide-ranging portrait of life in the United States throughout its history and that is available to scholars, teachers, and the general public in our online database.

So you want to study history?! OK, here's how! Writing, Research, Resources, Links, etc.

So you want to study history?! OK, here's how! Writing, Research, Resources, Links, etc.

I hope this site helps you place today's current events into a greater historical context. Each map is well-researched and based in fact, and none of the work is meant to be biased or political. No spin or opinion, just fact-based conclusions about the history of war. Maps-of-War is created by a Flash-Designer hobbyist and professional history- buff. Enjoy your visit and feel free to save or share our work for your own use!

Kids find the religion map absolutely fascinating. We used this map in our Islam unit, and kids were blown away at how quickly Islam had spread. The map also helped contexualize the history of Judaism.

MilestoneDocuments.com combines famous primary source texts with expert analysis by esteemed historians. Designed for teachers, students, and researchers, MilestoneDocuments.com explores the speeches, laws and legal opinions, proclamations and executive orders, and other documents that influenced the course of history. At present the site only covers documents from American history, but we will be adding coverage of primary documents from world history later in 2009. Also coming soon is a greatly expanded set of resources for teaching with documents. For now, see our free monthly e-newsletter for U.S. history teachers.

D.C. Everest Social Studies Department actively promotes reading by teaching content reading strategies, using historical fiction and non-fiction in the classroom, and teaching historical research skills. Included are helpful Social Studies Reading links.

An extensive list of "cool" web tools for education. Categories include: Presentation Tools Collaborative Tools Research Tools Video Tools Slideshow Tools Audio Tools Image Tools Drawing Tools Writing Tools Music Tools Organising Tools Converting Tools Mapping Tools Quiz and Poll Tools Graphing Tools Creativity Tools Widgets File Storage & Web Pages Teacher Resources

This is a great tool for students who are hoping to do some research "shopping." If so inclined, there is a notebook feature that you can use if you create an account. Need to play more with this to see it's full extent.

Footnote.com is a place where original historical documents are combined with social networking in order to create a truly unique experience involving the stories of our past. The Footnote.com collections feature documents, most never before available on the Internet, relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, US Presidents, historical newspapers, naturalization documents, and many more. Footnote.com is more than just an online repository for original documents. In addition to hosting millions of records, Footnote supports a community of people who are passionate about a variety of topics relating to history.

The case of the Orlando Project offers a useful interrogation of concepts like completion and finality, as they emerge in the arena of electronic publication. The idea of "doneness" circulates discursively within a complex and evolving scholarly ecology where new modes of digital publication are changing our conceptions of textuality, at the same time that models of publication, funding, and archiving are rapidly changing. Within this ecology, it is instrumental and indeed valuable to consider particular tasks and stages done, even as the capacities of digital media push against a sense of finality. However, careful interrogation of aims and ends is required to think through the relation of a digital project to completion, whether modular, provisional, or of the project as a whole.

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

The US government has numerous websites relevant to foreign and security policy. A list of the most useful. . .

"A.nnotate lets you share and store notes on documents. When you upload a document A.nnotate displays it in the browser and lets you add notes and tags to specific words, phrases and regions of the page. You can share documents so that other people can add notes and replies. All notes are added to your personal document index. "