SocialStudiesteachers

"If you're a history teacher, particularly a U.S. History teacher, here are seven YouTube channels where you can find some good short video clips to use in your lessons."

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.

"Photographs do more than document history -- they make it. At TED University, Jonathan Klein of Getty Images shows some of the most iconic, and talks about what happens when a generation sees an image so powerful it can't look away -- or back." (2010)

The Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE) is an educational non-profit committed to improving access to education. This library of open educational resources features course materials for seven Advanced Placement (AP) courses from MITE. These high school level materials are available for free download.

These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America's rural and small town populations. The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.

Each August since 1998, Beloit College has released the Beloit College Mindset List, providing a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college this fall. The creation of Beloit's former Public Affairs Director Ron Nief and Keefer Professor of the Humanities Tom McBride, it was originally created as a reminder to faculty to be aware of dated references, and quickly became a catalog of the rapidly changing worldview of each new generation. Mindset List websites at Beloit College and at mindsetmoment.com, the media site webcast and their Facebook page receive more than a million hits annually.

Wiggins and McTighe

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!

Historical Fiction for Teens Books in this list were selected to appeal to teens with a wide range of reading and maturity levels.

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.

The Lincoln Archives Digital Project started in 2002 with a simple idea for a vast undertaking: to digitize all federal records that exist from the administration of Abraham Lincoln. Over 6,000 documents are currently online and over half a million documents are scanned and in the process of being placed online. People from around the world now have access to the documents of Abraham Lincoln's administration, including Civil War records.

" This year's focus for National Women's History Month is "Writing Women Back into History." In celebration of Women's History Month's 30th anniversary, themes and honorees from the past three decades are being highlighted, all with the goal of recognizing the diverse accomplishments of women throughout history. "

"In this lesson students will learn about the impact of photography in the Civil Rights Movement by analyzing James Karales's photograph of the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965, reading about this march, and imagining themselves as a marcher in Karales's photograph. As an assessment, students will create postcards, incorporating their own visual images and descriptive writing about the March."

Free periodicals, some dating back to the 19th Century.

Online offerings include: * Online Exhibits * BCMT Exhibit * Berlin Wall * Cold War Artwork * Cold War Stories * Museum Collection * Patches Collection * Photo Gallery * Reconnaissance * U.S.S. Liberty * CIA - Virtual * DIA - Virtual * KGB/Stasi Prison

Scroll down past the search boxes and "Databases" section to the "Portals" section.

HyperCities is a collaborative research and educational platform for traveling back in time to explore historical layers of city spaces in an interactive, hypermedia environment

Access to newspapers and magazines from around the world

S.O.S. for Information Literacy is a dynamic web-based multimedia resource that includes lesson plans, handouts, presentations, videos and other resources to enhance the teaching of information literacy.

Teach the Civil War using our lesson plans. Created by educators for educators, our plans include all the needed materials and resources free for you to use in your classroom.