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What Are We Fighting For Over There? - Library of Congress
Grades
10 to 12
tag(s): 1900s (84), 1940s (70), 20th century (168), foreign policy (15), world war 1 (87)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of this free lesson plan in your classroom during a unit on WWI - the documents are all very revealing and an excellent example for students of reliable primary sources.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Intelligent Designs on Evolution - American RadioWorks
Grades
9 to 12In the Classroom
Pair with a study of the 1925 Scopes Trial, use as the basis for a "current events" class debate (with a focus on the court system), or challenge students to be on the lookout for similar news items from across the country.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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GOV.com - GOV.com
Grades
9 to 12In the Classroom
Enrich a current events discussion with this resource. Compare what is heard and seen by students in the media with the facts that appear on this site.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Asia for Educators - Columbia University
Grades
10 to 12In the Classroom
Take advantage of the free lesson plans hosted on this site! There are also timelines about both China and Japan available that can help guide your classroom unit about the history of either. Share a timeline on the interactive whiteboard or projector to introduce the unit and show the direction of progress. This would be a great resource for a world history classroom.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Nuremberg Trials - WGBH
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): 1940s (70), 20th century (168), courts (25), world war 2 (169)
In the Classroom
Challenge students to think about the similarities and differences between the trial of Saddam Hussein and the Nuremberg trials.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture - University of Virginia
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): africa (162), african american (130), slavery (79)
In the Classroom
Bookmark as an online resource for student research or as a teacher source for lesson development.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Multiple Choice Quizzes - SchoolHistory
Grades
8 to 12In the Classroom
Use this site to review students on important scanning many units of history. Save this site as a learning center or station, and allow students to use it in the days proceeding an assessment. Teachers can also print out some of the quizzes and use them to assess students background knowledge when entering a new unit.Be sure to post these on your teacher wiki or webpage too, allowing students to review before a major assessment - both in and out of the classroom.
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Quiz Tree - Sierra Vista Software
Grades
1 to 12In the Classroom
A great resource for reviewing content or investigating new information. Headphones highly recommended.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Cover Art: The Time Magazine Collection - National Portrait Gallery
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): famous people (40), news (223)
In the Classroom
This site would be useful in a Art History or US government class studying the impact of the media on politics. Have students explore the site on the interactive whiteboard, allowing them to be hands on with the material - avoid being the Vanna White of the board! As students are navigating the site, focus their attention on how many presidents and political figures are featured - as evidenced on the link entitled "Most Featured Person." This could lead into a great discussion of how exposure can affect politicians, as well as the difference between good and bad press.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Bound for Glory: America in Color - Library of Congress
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): 1930s (40), 1940s (70), 20th century (168), great depression (32), images (267), photography (136)
In the Classroom
It's interesting how viewing the images in color makes the viewer feel as though the Great Depression was something far more recent - perhaps due to the dated feeling of black and white images. In a discussion of the Great Depression, spend some time comparing these images and the traditional black and white images on an interactive whiteboard or projector. Ask students about the differences and if one is more revealing or not. This can also lead into a discussion on the reliability of primary sources and the effects of seeing something rather than reading it.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Discovering American Women's History Online - Ken Middleton
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): history day (38), women (189)
In the Classroom
This is an excellent resource for piecing together American history by examining primary source documents. Have cooperative learning groups investigate women's contributions in various decades and extend their learning by creating a video using Renderforest, reviewed here, to share with their peers. Share the videos using a site such as SchoolTube reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Pompeii: Stories from an Eruption - The Field Museum
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): volcanoes (62)
In the Classroom
Use the interactive time-line on this site as a learning center or station during a lesson on ancient Pompeii. Because there is a lot of content on this site, we recommend creating a guide to help students grasp the basic concepts. For help with graphic organizers, we recommend using Graphic Organizer Maker, (reviewed here).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Intelligent Design in American Classrooms - NPR
Grades
8 to 12In the Classroom
If willing to deal with the possible religious discussion, this article would be a great starting point for a class debate on the costs and benefits of teaching intelligent design in the classroom. Based on what the article has written, begin a class discussion as to whether or not some of the actions taken by states have crossed any constitutional boundaries? Where would that boundary lie? (etc) This could lead to a heated discussion, but is a great way to get students discussing the importance of the establishment clause and its' practical application in society.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Rosa Parks - NPR
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): african american (130), civil rights (219), rosa parks (9), segregation (20)
In the Classroom
The most intriguing part of this site are the audio portions where Parks recounts her story. Open the site on the interactive whiteboard or projector and play the portions during and within a lecture on Parks. Hearing Parks tell her story will add a different element than pictures and lecture provide.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): african american (130), civil rights (219), rosa parks (9), segregation (20), women (189), womenchangemaker (79)
In the Classroom
Refer students working on research projects or papers on Rosa Parks to this site. Use eMargin, reviewed here with your weak readers for the very text-heavy biography, but the information is all useful and reliable.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Rosa Parks - Academy of Achievement
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): african american (130), civil rights (219), rosa parks (9), women (189), womenchangemaker (79)
In the Classroom
Within the site is an interview with Parks, in which she accounts segregation in her childhood as well as the bus boycott that made her so famous. Play this for students during a unit on the Civil Rights movement in place of a lecture, or afterwards to review the content.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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1492 - An Ongoing Voyage - Library of Congress
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): explorers (65), native americans (129)
In the Classroom
Use the images on this site to create a picture walk activity in your classroom. Select 10-15 of the more descriptive images, preferably with different subjects. Assign students to stand at specific images, rotating every 30-45 seconds. In that time, students should quickly jot down what they observe, infer and predict about each. After the walk is done, have a class discussion based on the notes that students have taken. This is a great way to introduce the beginnings of the New World in a non-lecture format.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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New Sense, Inc. vs. Fish Till U Drop - EconEdLink
Grades
1 to 12tag(s): natural resources (33), resources (80)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of this free set of lesson plans about economics of topics in everyday life. Be sure to save the site as a favorite on your classroom computer to allow for easy retrieval later on.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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African American Women Writers of the 19th Century - NY Public Library
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): african american (130), authors (113), poetry (196), women (189)
In the Classroom
Use the poems by Phyllis Wheatley to complement a lesson on supporters of the American Revolution. Wheatley is often a studied character in American History, and her poems often confront American Independence and slavery. Share the poems with students at the end of a lesson, and have them analyze as a class what she is trying to say about either subject. Enhance student learning with a digital classroom discussion (where everyone gets a chance to contribute) using YoTeach, reviewed here, or by digital journal writing using Penzu, reviewed here, or edublog, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Records Pertaining to John G. Roberts - National Archives
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): supreme court (32)
In the Classroom
Too often in the upper levels students have extreme problems interpreting and comprehending decisions and memorandums written by Congress of the Supreme Court. Use this site to help students get accustomed and assimilated to the language and writing style commonly used in Judicial writings. And activity such as this would be useful before interpreting important court decisions such as Plessy v. Ferguson or Brown v Board of Education. Open the site on the interactive whiteboard or projector, and open one of the memorandums written by Judge Roberts. Analyze with students each of the seperate sections or paragraph to give them familiarity. Teachers can leave it at this, or have students practice writing their own memorandums after wards, using one of his as an example.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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