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A wiki maintained by faculty, teachers and students who are part of the History Teacher Education Program in the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Using Wikis with K-12 students

The 21st Century Skills and Social Studies Map, the first of its kind to be released, demonstrates how the integration of 21st century skills into the social studies supports teaching and prepares students to become effective and productive citizens in the 21st century.

Digital research, teaching and learning project that explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and "the Virginia experiment."

A collection of 128 games related to topics in US and World History as well as civics and geography

"This is the US Teachers' Guide for using the Professional Cartoonists Index web site in your classes. We have developed lesson plans for using the editorial cartoons as a teaching tool in Social Sciences, Art, Journalism and English at all levels."

Historypin is a way for millions of people to come together, from across different generations, cultures and places, to share small glimpses of the past and to build up the huge story of human history. Everyone has history to share: whether its sitting in yellowed albums in the attic, collected in piles of crackly tapes, conserved in the 1000s of archives all over the world or passed down in memories and old stories. Each of these pieces of history finds a home on Historypin, where everyone has the chance to see it, add to it, learn from it, debate it and use it to build up a more complete understanding of the world.

Really cool application for Web 2 using Geo teachers. Similar to youcube - search engine with visualization and click and watch/listen to each square.