This is a useful bog made up of various museums and culutral groups around the Chicago area. It promotes learning and understanding of culutral diversity by connecting these culutral centers to other institutions, mainly education. Would be a great resource for those who want to teach in Chicago
Craetive Education is an educational non-profit organization that specializes in creating uniqiue filed emersion curriculum programs in which students and teachers paricipate in filed trips to exotoic locations. There are resources on this page on how to incorporate one of these trips into your classroom education or as a teacher you can volunteer as well
The site includes photographs, pictures, sound files, and bibliographic citations from people who experienced various historical events. The site could be really useful in making lesson plans as well as giving students resources for assignments or projects.
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.
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 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 60 Minutes special which follows the trail of toxic e-waste from our cell phones, computers, etc. in the United States all the way to toxic dumping sites in rural China. This would be an excellent resource in a World History class showing some negative effects of globalization.
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.
This is the official website of the Golden Apple Award. here is useful inofmration on workshops, seminars, and resources on how to be a better teacher as well as information on the award itself