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Building a Timeline allows you to tell a story your way - you have the power to pick the details and images that are most meaningful to you. With Timelines, you can share your knowledge and passion about a particular topic, whether it's World War II or Elvis Presley, with other LIFE fans. Plus, Timelines are a great tool for organizing and narrating your own personal photos, from your birthday party or your wedding or your family reunion -- all at a private URL you can share with only those people you'd like to see it.

Create, collaborate on, and publish zooming/panning interactive timelines - for free. Timeglider is great for history classes, project planning, genealogy, and more. It's like Google Maps, but for time.

ChronoZoom is the Zoomable timeline for Big History With ChronoZoom, you can browse history, rather than digging it out piece by piece. ChronoZoom is a timeline for all of history: From the Big Bang, to the time of the dinosaurs, to the present.

The Gilder Lehrman Institute offers classroom resources and professional development to assist teachers in their classrooms. The Institute has pioneered new models of history schools and programs, with proven success in improving academic achievement. It offers professional development opportunities and documents and exercises for classroom use drawing from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, and encourages excellence in student writing with essay prizes. Common Core units for English Language Arts and Social Studies teachers Online Exhibitions on important topics including the Freedom Riders of the Civil Rights Movement and Battle Lines: Letters from America's Wars up to the Second Gulf War Historians' Podcasts including small video clips on essential questions History by Era, an online resource organized chronologically with essays by leading historians, a timeline, primary source documents for classroom use, multimedia, lesson plans, activities, and more Primary Sources from the Gilder Lehrman Collection Traveling Exhibitions for Schools and Libraries The Affiliate School Program is a unique gateway to education resources, events, and tools designed to bring American history to life in the classroom. Our network of schools connects teachers and students to valuable resources, including: Exclusive web content, including teachable documents, resource lists, and more Professional development opportunities, including preferential consideration to Teacher Seminars Free and discounted books, multimedia kits, and traveling exhibitions Unlimited access to the Gilder Lehrman Collection of more than 60,000 American historical documents Opportunities for students to participate in the Civil War Essay Contest and the Dear George Washington Contest Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Gilder Lehrman Affiliate School Program provides free resources and support for teaching and studying American history

Shmoop's approach is an online version of Cliff's Notes with links to other resources. Their mission is to "make learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age." "Shmoop wants to help you become a better lover (of literature an

Teaching Social Studies with good books, games, activities, craft projects, & more! Make history fun for kids! Choose from the following to make teaching social studies for kids both meaningful and exciting! The recommended books, activities, and projects are listed in chronological order!