NCSS History

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.

The Timeline Index : People, Periods, Places and Events in a chronological context. Find You can search and browse the Timeline Index in many ways: * Find your subjects by inserting keywords * Insert dates to find items from a specific year or periode * Or combine by using a [ + ], try for instance: 1400 + composers + italy Select Or simply select by category to find the items in a chronological order and context: * Just click 'Who, What, When, Where or Which' at the top * Click the dates to view all items from that year onwards * To view the Timeline items in another context you can click the categories on the left (below the dates) * Click on 'More' (or on the pictures) to discover more about the items, linked websites and related items, URL's and categories * To open the linked websites you click on the titles of the items Sort You can also sort the timelines from present-to-past or view people or events only within each category. Related Links Add a related link (URL) to an item and create more relevant information. We welcome time related items like chronologies, biographies, events, collections, etc. in any category. For quality reasons we reserve the right to edit/remove contributed links.

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.

Immigration Explorer Select a foreign-born group to see how they settled across the United States.

Tom Daccord - classroom wiki for U.S. History survey course 2006-2007

Social Studies Curriculum Subject Resources These lists were developed to provide a starting place for learning more about social studies. It is in no way intended to be an exhaustive list and the contents of these Web sites are not specifically endorsed by the Anchorage School District.

A Short History of smARThistory smARThistory.org is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional and static art history textbook. Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker began smARThistory in 2005 by creating a blog featuring free audio guides in the form of podcasts for use in The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Awesome visualizations of current events

Learning Curve content is matched up to an appropriate unit of the National Curriculum.

Low-Cost Multi-point Interactive Whiteboards Using the Wiimote Since the Wiimote can track sources of infrared (IR) light, you can track pens that have an IR led in the tip. By pointing a wiimote at a projection screen or LCD display, you can create very low-cost interactive whiteboards or tablet displays. Since the Wiimote can track upto 4 points, up to 4 pens can be used. It also works great with rear-projected displays.

Welcome to "We the People" - a place for our forefathers to meet and network! For safety and ease of moderating, this network is "by invitation"; only Stevenson Faculty and 6th graders will participate. If you are visiting, please feel free to browse this front page.

The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

All excellent sources of documentary films and images.

Mummert's great groupings of TED talks.

For any of you using TED talks in the classroom

New game-based high-school history course Posted by: Don Tapscott on 05Jun 2009 For a couple of decades I've been advocating a new model of pedagogy that involves technology. For example, I just published a piece in the Edge on the Demise of the University. The purpose of introducing technology into schools isn't to simply digitize existing processes and leave the basic broadcast teaching model unchanged. Instead, technology opens the door to new techniques that focus on the student and allow students to proceed at their own pace. In this spirit, imagine students studying American history with the same concentration and enthusiasm they display when playing their favourite video games. After all, 97 percent of high school students are avid gamers. That's the goal of Conspiracy Code, an online game based course released this week by Florida Virtual School (FLVS), and 360Ed, Inc. an education game development company.