This timeline gives a brief description of all of the presidents as well what era they lived during and what that era consisted of. This can be used by teachers to give an introduction to the American presidents but students can use this to do further research.

One thing is that this seems to be a bit out of date (the latest timeline did not include President Obama) so it is good to look at the past presidents but wouldn't be helpful for understanding the current presidency.

The current feature lesson plan provides teachers with many examples of how to teach their students about a particular period in history, an event, or a person/group of people.

It is great that the National Park Service organizes their lesson plans and follows the National Standards for 5-12 Social Studies so teachers can see how it fits into the objectives they are required to follow over the course of the semester/year.

These regional maps can be used by the teacher to help students locate the area of interest and work on their map reading skills. It might be beneficial to have these mpas laminated around the room so students can reference them when needed.

These subcategories (intro, geography, people, gov, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues) are all aspects of social studies that can be examined individually or collectively in understanding other countries and comparing it to the US.

Students can use this site on a daily/weekly basis to share something that they think is interesting about the day in history with their class members.

Teachers can use the short video that is provided to start class, students can pick a topic, research it, and present their findings the next day

The Terrorism booklet provides a timeline, pre-video and post video activities, map activites, charts for students to fill in, and cooperative and differentiated learning activites.

There is a research aspect at the end of the curriculum where students are expected to take the knowledge they have gained and apply it to a historical or contemporary organization/group that engages in terrorist acts.

This can be used especially on Constitution Day (September 17th).

A bibliography is provides as well as other external resources for students and teachers to explore.

This site provides exhibitions and primary source documents which provide more detailed descriptions of certain events/people which teachers can use to expand student learning.

This is one site of three that provides primary documents. The other two discuss national expansion and reform and the civil war and reconstruction.