This website has a few fun videos that teach brief lessons about different topics in history including the XYZ Affair, the Greeks, and the Grimke sisters.
This site is obviously dedicated to the Teach For America organization. It gives great details as to what their mission is and how to go about getting involved. It is beneficial to us because we are getting closer to the day where we are going to be looking for a teaching job and this could be a good fit for some.
If you sign up for teaching tolerance you can get a variety of engaging resources and ideas for teaching students about multiple perspectives and diversity.
This site is good if you want to learn about the history of teaching. It allows the teacher to see where their profession has risen from. It also dives into the controversial past of who could be a teacher at the time and it is interesting to compare it to the present day.
The Library of Congress provides a search engine that makes it possible to track every proposed piece of federal legislation. This is a valuable teaching tool because it allows students to take a specific bill and see exactly what committees, sponsors, votes, and other information pertains to it.
This is an article that gives an immense amount of ideas for literature to use in a history classroom. I feel that literature is an effective and interesting tool to teach history.
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.
Describes a series of interviews with teachers about the way they teach history and integrate other subjects into their classroom. Most of the teachers are elementary-level, but I found their comments interesting.
This site just has some general activities that you can do with your students if you are teaching about Greek mythology, and I think these would work well with other types of mythology too.
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