This is a Smithsonian website that uses video and text to examine armed conflicts involving the U.S. from the Revolutionary War to the war in Iraq. This is a great tool to use when examining any war the U.S. has been involved in. This site also provides many activities.
I thought this website looked great. It provides useful links to other history websites and has numerous resources for teachers as well as lesson planning tools.
This one website contains tons of links that direct to other information websites dealing with specific time periods. It basically documents the best history websites on the internet.
I thought this site looked great because it has great video resources for teachers. In addition to interesting videos related to history, this site also has teacher uploaded videos of lesson plans they have taught.
The Junior General project is one that teaches students about military history and strategy by providing various simulations using historical miniatures (paper or plastic toy soldiers), maps and counters, and matrix arguments. The simulations are designed for middle school students.
I thought this site was especially fitting for our CI 335 class because it helps teachers incorporate technology into their curriculum and classrooms. It has links to an online textbook, primary source documents, videos, and much more.
The site includes an up-to-date U.S. history textbook; annotated primary sources on United States, Mexican American, and Native American history, and slavery; and succinct essays on the history of ethnicity and immigration, film, private life, and science and technology among many things.
This site is devoted to primary sources and ideas for teachers on how to teach a specific era of history. This site includes links to movies, powerpoint slides, primary source documents, lesson plans, and handouts for teachers.
This is the website for the Metropolitan Museum, the largest art museum in the U.S., if not the world. It is located in New York, but online you can find whatever art pieces available.
This is a website full of blank maps. If you guys want to do a labeling quiz or a coloring worksheets, students might learn a lot from these geography stuff.
My AP teacher utilized this website before as there are multiple-choice quizzes to test students for enrichment. Maybe, in the future, this can be utilized on some of the unit tests and other assessments.
A great site to expand on a unit which can aid teachers who are searching for newer ideas or it also serves as a site to grasp a greater understanding of a topic. Type in keywords to bring up multiple links.