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- American Journeys is a tremendous resource of over 17,000 primary source documents about first encounters in America, also has lessons using these documents.
- American Social History Project - based at the University of New York Graduate Center and produces print, visual, and multimedia materials about the men and women whose actions and beliefs shaped U.S. history.
- Center for History and New Media is a clearinghouse for high quality resources in teaching history. Supported by the Department of Education a collaborative effort by George Mason University, the American Social History Project, and the Center for Media and Learning.
- Colonial Williamsburg Learning Resources - highlights uncommon classroom resources from early American history with lesson plans and historical background for teachers.
- Digital History provides digitized primary sources and tested classroom lessons.
- DoHistory is an excellent site that models for students how to use different sources to piece together the past.
- Evaluation of Information Sources is a collection of evaluation forms for evaluating websites, sources, and surveys while doing research.
- Helping Your Child Learn History - developed by the U.S. Department of Education to help parents work with younger students and history but does include useful language in talking about history education and interesting lessons.
- History Channel Classroom contains a variety of lesson plans and other resources from one of our major sponsors.
- History Matters - from the American Social History Project and the Center for History and New Media with a digital blackboard section that is excellent.
- Learning Page of the Library of Congress models how to use primary sources and do oral history with your students plus a 1000 other teacher resources.
- National Archives: The Digital Classroom - includes downloadable primary sources for different units, detailed lessons with critical questions to ask students to uncover historical meaning.
- National Center for History in the Schools - has the National History Standards developed by a team lead by Gary Nash at UCLA.
- Our Documents includes 100 actual milestone documents in American history and transcriptions.
- PBS History - hundreds of lessons and activities all correlated to state curriculum standards.
- Social Studies Lesson Plans and Resources - links to lesson plans, ideas, and activities.
- TeacherServe from the National Humanities Center - includes primary sources, lesson ideas and essays by leading scholars.
- Teaching with Historic Places - uses properties listed in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects. TwHP has created a variety of products and activities that help teachers bring historic places into the classroom.
- U.S. Department of Education Resources Information Center - ERIC abstracts
- U.S. Postal Museum - a specific website to connect with National History Day and the history of the Post Office.
- WebQuest Page - a WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web. This website includes lessons and ideas on how to use the Web for classes and student research projects.
- Women In World History Curriculum - full of information and resources to help teachers and students learn about women's history in a global context.
- You Be the Historian - from the National Museum of American History. Has ideas for lessons in helping students do historical research.
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