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This is an interesting video that shows how students have changed in recent years, and how teachers must adapt to them.

Some useful information on a variety of different history topics. Good for any grade 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.

This is a link to Daryl Cagle's cartoon index from MSNBC. The site includes a number of political, historical and socially-relevant cartoons.

Large collection of political editorial cartoons.

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.

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.

I utilize this website for primary sources: it has many speeches, debates, interviews, especially in audio, text, and videos of many sorts of mediums.

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.

provides primary sources concerning the renaissance which can aid either teachers in their understanding of the era or students in their quest to fulfill an assignment requirement which needs primary sources.

This is a very interesting blog that posts information on presidents as well as those who worked with them such as JFK's speech writer. The blog contains information that is usually not included in history textbooks and could used to provide different perspectives on presidents. It also would be a great way to make presidents come alive to students, since the blog contains personal information on the presidents.

This website contains a huge amount of information for teachers ranging from news on policy issues, blogs, a job search feature, a section on technology in schools, and a curriculum/lesson plan section. I would highly recommend exploring all the different tabs at the top of the webpage as well as the subsections.

This website allows you to create a myriad of different charts and graphs for international demographic of many types.

This site deals with the issues of globalization, terrorism, and democracy raised by the September 11 attacks and our reaction to them.

Just a website where teachers have posted lesson plans for middle school kids. Some are very specific and others are less so but there are many options here

about marriage in the interesting times of Heian time period in Japan

Let students learn Katagana

Women roles in Heian time period. can use it to teach studenta

a timeline, map, guide to edo time period of japan

a fun little virtual tour in Japan's Edo time period.