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This site is great for sharing quick resources that are valuable to teachers interested in teaching history to middle school students.

Here is the website for the Chicago Public Schools. This can be important to many because some of us might go on to student teach or be employed by the Chicago Public Schools.

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.

This site is a great tool for any teacher. It has numerous resources for teachers, and categorizes them by both grade level and subject--including social studies. PBS also offers a wide array of technological resources for both teachers and students.

Has everything from lesson plans to videos and other resources related to social studies.

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 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.

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.

An interesting video that would be a good way to get students thinking about what happens to the electronic waste from all the technology in their lives. It would be a good starting for a project similar to the one we did in HIST100 and could work well with modern U.S. or world history as well as a political science/government classes.

Let students learn Katagana

This is a site that focuses on kids in WWII and provides pictures and easy explanations for them. Could be useful for middle school students to get a different perspective

This is an interactive site that takes students through the process of the Underground Railroad

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.

A useful website to aid any student who has forgotten their grammar basics.

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.