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So this site has a survey that students from different countries around the world have taken about citizenship. You can sign up for free as a teacher and there are two different projects. 1. Survey - See what your students think are the most important responsibilities of citizenship and how they compare to students in other places around the world. There is also a reflective essay assignment for students if you like. 2. Memory Bank - Students record stories of civic engagement from around their own neighborhoods and upload them to the site. Currently there are none up. But yours could be the first!

This site gives human rights reports listed by country and year. It is an excellent resource for information on human rights conditions throughout the world.

How might teachers use the site?

This site contains a huge variety of maps plus useful facts including demographics, economic data, and the history behind the subject of each map. Great tool for teachers and students.

Listen to classic radio broadcasts from legendary entertainers and historical figures. FDR's "fireside chats", World War II broadcasts, "Who's on first" and more!

A spatial and temporal visualization of historical events focused primarily on the western world.

This is an obscure corned or the Internet I found a few years ago. Though not excellently sourced and a bit primitive, the site sheds some light on an interesting and forgotten area of World War II history--soldiers of Imperial Japan who refused to admit or accept defeat. I hope someone else finds it as interesting as I have.

As another tough topic to tackle in the high school social studies classroom, this multimedia-based PBS lesson plan aims to help students grades 9-12 understand the difficulties encountered by US soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Television, internet, and many other factors have changed the way we view war and receive our veterans. The lesson plan examines the conditions faced by troops returning from not just Iraq and Afghanistan today, but also from Vietnam and World War II. Like the other collection of lesson plans I posted earlier, this is material that can be a little bit emotional, especially for students who have a family or friend connection to veterans.

A resource for World History curriculum created by the San Diego State University and National Center for History in the Schools.  It is a through and evolving website for teachers.

This website uses resources from current and returned Peace Corps Volunteers to create lesson plans to help teachers educate their students about the world. Most of the lesson plans center around stories written by Volunteers but there are some videos as well. Teachers can also request that a Volunteer visit their classroom to talk with their students.

Google Earth is a fantastic way to take students to any country in the world! As long as you have a computer and a projector, students can have amazing images of different countries. They also have features to help you study topography and maps.

This is a great audio-visual representation of the German occupation of Europe during World War II.

Great documentaries from around the world

This BBC website gives tons of interactive history games in categories of ancient history, archaeology, British history, and world wars.

World War II and Cold War.