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Digital Classroom - http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/index.html
To encourage teachers of students at all levels to use archival documents in the classroom, the Digital Classroom provides materials from the National Archives and methods for teaching with primary sources. |
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Repositories of Primary Sources - http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
A listing of over 4000 web-sites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar. |
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Best History Websites - http://www.besthistorysites.net/
A portal created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts. Sites are rated for usefulness and accuracy, that will help studies or teachers in a wide variety of topics and periods in history. |
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Social Studies Education: National Council for the Social Studies - http://www.socialstudies.org/
An information resource for social studies teachers. |
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National History Day - http://www.nationalhistoryday.org/
Non-profit academic program designed to promote the study of history. Includes information on upcoming contests and participation, past winners, and recommended links to history resources. |
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Our Documents - http://www.ourdocuments.gov
Featuring 100 milestone documents of American history from the National Archives. Includes images of original primary source documents, lesson plans, teacher and student competitions, and educational resources. |
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Digital History - http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
Enhances history teaching and research through primary sources, an online textbook, extensive reference resources, and interactive materials. |
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History Matters - http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History courses. This site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers useful materials for teaching U.S. history. |
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Global Nomads Group - http://www.gng.org/
GNG is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting international dialogue by partnering educators around the world. Includes a teacher survey and project overview. |
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National Center for History in the Schools US History Standards - http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/standards/
The standards are both online and in print form. |
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Social Studies - http://www.indiana.edu/~socialst/
This page is designed for K-12 social studies teachers and students. It also has information and topics that are useful to pre-service social studies instructors and students. The World Wide Web offers almost unlimited opportunities for social studies education and we hope that this page will benefit both the novice and the experienced Web user. |
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American Heritage Education Foundation, Inc. - http://www.americanheritage.org
Provides free K-12 curriculum lessons by and for teachers in social studies, U. S. history/government, political science, philosophy, and economics. The curriculum educates students about America's factual, philosophical heritage. |
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Adventure Learning Foundation - http://www.questconnect.org/
Creates curricula which follow online adventure learning expeditions as they travel around the world. Includes resources for use in the K-12 classroom. |
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Twentieth Century in America - http://library.thinkquest.org/50062/
A group of internet activities covering the major events of the 1900s in America. |
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Junto Society - http://www.juntosociety.com
In-depth information and resources on historical dates and events, American documents, breaking news, political news, and other historical data. |
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AMVETS Americanism Program - http://www.amvets.org/programs/programs_amvets_americanism_program.html
The program helps teach K-12 students about their American heritage, civics and citizenship through a series of contests where students design flags or posters and write essays, and win prizes. |
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BC Social Studies Teachers' Association - http://bctf.ca/BCSSTA/
Offers links to valuable lesson plans, research links and professional information to teachers interested in socials, history, geography, and comparative civilizations. |
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Crossroads - A K-16 American History Curriculum - http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Social_Studies/US_History/crossroads.html
Recommended American history curriculum for kindergarten through college. |
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History and Social Studies - http://www.academic-genealogy.com/historysocialstudies.htm
Small directory of educational sites for the student, genealogist and family historian. |
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The Vietnam War: Past and Present - http://www.tappedin.org/info/teachers/vietnam1.htm
Resource site for high school teachers provides historical background and curriculum ideas. |
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American History from 1899 High School Textbook - http://www.history4u.com
American History from 1899 perspective. Material from book has been broken down into 5 categories and any article is no more than 2 clicks away. |
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Colonial America - For Freedom and Profit - http://members.tripod.com/~Sunclaw/index.html
United States History project designed for grades 6-12. It is an interactive, internet-based, cooperative group activity in which students build a colony from the ground up. |
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Abby's Resource Page for Social Studies Teachers - http://home.windstream.net/abbysresources/
Hundreds of links to history, social studies, and education sites on the Web. Links are indexed for easy searching. Also home of the History Teachers' Education Ring. |
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The Local Historical Archives Project (LHAP) - http://www.tielab.org/lhap
LHAP is a searchable database of historical images and documents, one that is largely compiled by students in grades 5-12. It is an educational project by which students create a local history resource available to anyone. |
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Study Guide for Countdown to Millennium: An Oral History project - http://www.tcomschool.ohiou.edu/cdtm
This study guide serves as a supplement to the radio series, Countdown to Millennium: An Oral History project. This resource for teachers includes lesson plans, background on oral history collection, instructions for video interviews and web page construction, and links to oral history archives. |