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Links to incredible interactive websites about history

lessons in world history

Interactives and video for ancient history, middle ages, US civil war, wwII, vietnam, middle east, and world

Great collection of American History, World History, and geography resources.

Tips on writing for history classes

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December lesson plans and free worksheets and links to crafts, winter and Christmas music and poetry and elementary grade educational online games for homeschooling parents. Primarily for first grade, second grade and third grade, although useful links for fourth and fifth grade as well, particularly the international holiday, history and culture links on religion and holidays around the world. Good homeschooling website for free worksheets, links to history and educational websites, free printables and free online educational games.

good stories with historical significance, including biographies, disasters, history, philosophy, and more

links to history sites dealing with WWII.

Every event in history, from the big bang until today represented in an interactive timeline

Original source documents of early american history

CRF is a non-profit, non-partisan, community-based organization dedicated to educating America's young people about the importance of civic participation in a democratic society. Under the guidance of a Board of Directors chosen from the worlds of law, business, government, education, the media, and the community, CRF develops, produces, and distributes programs and materials to teachers, students, and public-minded citizens all across the nation. CRF is a non-profit, non-partisan, community-based organization dedicated to educating America's young people about the importance of civic participation in a democratic society. Under the guidance of a Board of Directors chosen from the worlds of law, business, government, education, the media, and the community, CRF develops, produces, and distributes programs and materials to teachers, students, and public-minded citizens all across the nation.

"The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists and nature enthusiasts from around the world. On more than 10,000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history"

primary source and animations on US history and world studies from the Dept of Education

social studies videos including american revolution, canada, civil war, grography, egypt, geography, greece, presidents

tours of some really cool sites around the world

pictures and original source documents from around the world, a project by UNESCO and the Library of Congress

For kids by kids, promoting world peach

Tablet computing and mobile devices promise to have a dramatic impact on education. A growing number of schools across the world are jumping on the digital bus and embracing  iPads (less often, other tablet products) as the latest tool to teach literature in multimedia, history through games and simulations, and math with step-by-step animation of problems. Not surprisingly, student scores improve when they use iPads and their interest in school soars. I say not surprisingly because students love digital toys and in my experience work harder and longer if given the opportunity to do so with any of the digital offerings (ipods, laptops included).

Street maps of famous places around the world, like Big Ben, Golden Gate Bridge, and Belem Tower