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I think these books about student motivation looked interesting. This site offers theories to student motivation and research on the subject

There are lots of good links on this website to pages that you can use ith your students as a teacher.

CNN's website for teachers and students. Great resource for discussing current events.

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. 

History Matters is a wonderful online resource for history teachers and students. Among the many digital resources are lesson plans, syllabi, links, and exhibits.

The site gives alot of useful information for teachers and students, having many primary sources, examples of syllabi, and teaching strategies for U.S. history.

Here is an entertaining video off of Teachertube.com. It seems to be directed towards a middle school classroom but overall a helpful video for students

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

This is off the Teaching Tolerance website, and it recaps Mix It Up Day during a lunch period. Mix It Up Day is dedicated to giving students an open opportunity to interact with other students that they never had interacted with within their own school walls.

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.

This is a great site that features lesson plans for k-12 in multiple subjects and provides resources for teachers, students, and parents as well

This article discusses how more and more professors are turning towards hand-held devices to keep students engaged and focused.

This page gives a few suggestions for lessons you can do with the Holocaust and WWII, a potentially touchy subject with your students.

Resources at the Holocaust Museum website. Great for teaching students about WWII and the Holocaust.

This is a great interactive website that students can use to study and quiz themselves on world geography.

This is a great PBS website that helps students understand the concept of race and how it affects society.

This site is a reference for teachers, parents, and students in Illinois on the educational policies, goals, and structure of the educational system in the state. It also contains many references on numerous educational topics.

This is a video about the changing political boarders of Europe. I believe it is a good way to shake students of their views on the current boarders that follow when talking about history.

This site is dedicated to showing educational brief clips about some of America's most influential individuals of the early 18th century. It provides background information and interesting facts about people such as Benjamin Franklin, Molly Pitcher, and George Washington, which is a good way to engage the students' attention.

This site includes important issues in teaching including how to write lesson plans and how to deal with multicultural and handicapped students

The infamous No Child Left Behind is criticized in this article and suggests that students' progress remains stagnant and schools often cheat.