This is a section of the PBS website that includres resources for teachers. There are resources for all grade levels and subjects, but this is most relevant for future social studies educators at the secondary level.
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.
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.
The purpose of this website is to provide the classroom with an accessible website with easy to find primary documents, which serves an especially significant purpose in a social studies classroom.
This is a website which includes a large photo gallery of ghettos and camps during the Holocaust and modern photos of the remaining structures. This would be a useful link for a lesson on the Holocaust.
This is a website which contains many clips and photos from the History Channel special: World War II in HD. It may be useful if one needs a few short clips to initiate discussion in a lesson on WWII.
This blog's editor is a current AP U.S. history teacher and posts topics on both history and teaching. There is also a link to his other website that is about soldier's stories in the Civil War. The blog provides useful information that can be used as references to lesson plan as well as help critically analyze the world around us.
This is an online reference for the Holocaust Museum located in Washington, D.C. It offers different kinds of activities and resources to use when teaching about the Holocaust.