Print Resources
History According to Bob | History Podcasts - http://www.summahistorica.com/
A&E Biography Database - http://www.biography.com/search/
Current Events
- Evans, R. W. & Saxe, D.W. (1996). Handbook on teaching social issues. NCSS: Washington, D.C.
- Fritzer, Penelope. (2002). Social studies content for elmenetary and middle school teachers. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
- Haas, M. & Laughlin, M. (1997). Meeting the standards: Social studies readings for K-6 educators. NCSS: Washington, D. C.
- Hakim, J. (2003). Freedom, A history of US. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Johnson, D. W., Johnson, R. T., and Holubec, E. J. (1991). Cooperation in the classroom.´dina, Minnesota Interaction Book Company. The web address for Interaction Book Company is: http://www.co-operation.org/?page_id=6
- Jorgensen, K. (1993). History workshop. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann
- Kagan, Spencer (1992). Cooperative learning. San Juan Capistrano, CA: Resources for Teachers. This is an older edition. The company is now knows as Kagan Publishing and Professional Development. They have a web site: Kagan Online: http://www.kaganonline.com/
- Levstik, Linda & Barton, Keith. (2001). Doing history: Investigating with children in elmentary and middle schools, 2nd edition. Mahaw, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Loewn, J. (1995). Lies my teacher told me: Everything your American history textbook got wrong. New York: The New Press
- Loewn, J. (2000). Lies across America: What our historic sites get wrong. New York: Touchstone (Simon and Schuster
- Stahl, R. J. & VanSickle, R. L. (1992). Cooperative learning in the social studies classroom. NCSS: Washington, D. C.
- Zinn, H. (2003). A people’s history of the United States: Abridged teaching edition. New York: The New Press.
- David Macaulay Books - http://www.davidmacaulay.com/This author has written some of the best books for teaching social studies that I have ever used. Several are Caldecott winners. These books are published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. Several of the books are also available as videos. These are produced by PBS. You can find them by searching the PBS store. The PBS page is - http://www.pbs.org/
- Bellerphon Books - http://www.bellerophonbooks.com/. This company publishes very inexpensive books of Ancient History, American History,Archeology, Native American Art and History, California History, Natural History, Music History, English Literature, and much more! I used their coloring books as examples of the art of the culture that we were studying.
- Interact Company - http://www.interact-simulations.com/. This company publishes good simulations for all grade level, including Storypath units.
- Scholastic Book Company - http://www.scholastic.com/. This is the company that publishes the "Dear America" books and videos. In addition to being able to order their books, there are also lesson plans and other resources available here.
History According to Bob | History Podcasts - http://www.summahistorica.com/
- Join us for a Podcast Journey through History. Professor Bob tells fascinating stories of historical people, places, and customs.
- "Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents and threaded discussions on teaching U.S. history."
- This is the site of Dan McDowell. He is a history teacher that uses technology in his classroom. It has good examples of the use of Web 2.0 tools
- This is a site developed by Ken Uhde, 9th grade world history teacher in Birmingham, MI. The purpose of the site is to share resources that he has found to help teachers make social studies an engaging and exciting subject. There are sections for geography, history, and world religions.
- The award winning site of 7th grade teacher George Cassutto
- This link contains links to the list of notable children's literature selected by the Book Review Committee of the NCSS for each year since 1998.
- Selected References Prepared by the Teaching History
Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association -
provides an excellent bibliography
- Description copied from web page: Storypath is a unique approach towards social studies instruction. Storypath uses the basic components of a story-setting, characters, and plot-to organize the social studies curriculum into meaningful and memorable learning experiences. The story structure enables students to become active participants in a problem-based situation resulting in deep involvement and creative exploration of social studies concepts.
A&E Biography Database - http://www.biography.com/search/
- Link to the site developed by the Biography Cable Channel
- An online version of the printed reference tool. It contains information about all the countries of the world. To get started with the resource you can select "Country Listing" and then choose the country you are interested in from the list. There is also a map of each country in addition to the statistical information.
- This site provides information about the countries of the world, including information about governement, economy, defense,flags, national anthems, and the current weather.
- The description as copied from the site: Cultural Maps is dedicated to the graphical presentation of non-graphical information - whatever that turns out to mean. At present, it has something to do with maps in the ordinary and normal sense of the term; the immediate goal is to build a digital American Historical Atlas. To the extent that maps serve as guides not only to the physical terrain but also and importantly as charts of the mapmaker's mental and cultural terrain, of the memories and desires, anxieties and assumptions he projects upon any terra incognita, we have begun building an historical geography of America. Eventually, this space will come to include graphs, charts, and images, in fact anything that serves as a concrete and physical representation of abstract ideas and intangible feelings.
- Description copied from website; Discovery Channel presents DISCOVERY ATLAS, the global television event that promises to inspire viewers through captivating photography, the highest quality production values, the latest in high-definition technology and compelling stories that strike at the heart of a country and its people. Sweeping in scope, majestic in visual beauty and rich in scholarship, DISCOVERY ATLAS builds upon Discovery's 20-year heritage of allowing viewers to explore their world and satisfy their curiosity.
- This site contains articles, pictures, and primary sources organized by time period. While it does have a lot of advertisements, it also has won several awards from educational organizations.
- With a Google account you can create your own maps with routes, places of interest, and pictures. Use this tutorial to learn more about this tool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TftFnot5uXw
- This site is sponsored by the TV Cable network. Its information is to entertain.
- Link to a page with timelines for many parts of the world and years.
- HyperHistory presents 3'000 years of world history with a combination of colorful graphics, lifelines, timelines, and maps. You can find a link to the World History chart.
- Online version of the print almanac. There are lots of ads.
- Developed by Caleb Johnson. An extensive site about the Mayflower and the Plymouth settlers. Contains links to many primary sources.
- Source of maps and driving directions. Like Google Maps it also has a My Maps feature.
- From Website - Maps of America are what you'll find and make on nationalatlas.gov™. Maps of innovation and vision that illustrate our changing Nation. Maps that capture and depict the patterns, conditions, and trends of American life. Maps that supplement interesting articles. Maps that tell their own stories. Maps that cover all of the United States or just your area of interest. Maps that are accurate and reliable from more than 20 Federal organizations. Maps about America's people, heritage, and resources. Maps that will help you, your children, your colleagues, and your friends understand the United States and its place in the world.
- Houghton Mifflin - http://www.eduplace.com/ss/ssmaps/index.html
- World Atlas - http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/testmaps/maps.htm
- This site is hosted by the Department of Geography at the University of Tennessee. It is designed to act as a gateway for all people interested in Tennessee.
- This is a comprehensive reference book for the state of Tennessee, sponsored by the University of Tennessee Press and The Tennessee Historical Society.
- Tennessee History for Kids is trying to help 950,000 public school students and 60,000 public school teachers deal with the most under-supported subject in the curriculum. This non-profit organization provides quality content to the students of Tennessee and has become a well-recognized resource for the teaching of Tennessee history, civics, and geography.
- This site contains many maps and also has a section especially for teachers. It will allow you to make maps based on population statistics.
Current Events
- New York Times Learning Network - http://www.nytimes.com/learning/index.html A large site with lesson plans as well as news stories from the headlines written for children in grades 3 to 12.
- Weekly Reader -
http://www.Weeklyreader.com (The classic, even I had Weekly Readers in school)
- Time for Kids - http://www.timeforkids.com. A news magazine published by the creators of TIME magazine.
- American Slave Narratives - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html - This site provides a sampling of slave narratives collected by the WPA.
- American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov - "The National Digital Library Program is
an effort to digitize and deliver electronically the distinctive, historical
Americana holdings at the Library of Congress, including photographs,
manuscripts, rare books, maps, recorded sound, and moving pictures. To achieve
its goal, this unique public-private program, also works in cooperation with
members of the Digital Library Federation and other libraries and archives
throughout the United States. (See also the Teaching with Primary Sources in Tennessee link later in this list.)
- A Chronology of US Historical Documents - http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/. This site is sponsored by the College of Law at the University of Oklahoma. Documents are organized by date.
- Civil War Women - http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.html Primary sources about women of the civil war. *
- Digital History - http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ An extensive site housed at the University of Houston with exhibits organized around topics in American history. Information can be searched and is well organized. This site is rich with primary sources and artifacts.
- Eye Witness to History. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/ This site contains articles, pictures, and primary sources organized by time period. While it does have a lot of advertisements, it also has won several awards from educational organizations.
- Mayflower History. http://mayflowerhistory.com/. This site is very extensive and contains many primary sources about the Mayflower and Plimoth Colony, the Wampanong People
- The National Archives http://www.archives.gov/education/ This page contains reproducible copies of primary documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States, teaching activities correlated to the National History Standards and National Standards for Civics and Government, and cross-curricular connections.
- The Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, and the Cold War - http://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/
- Teaching with Primary Sources Across Tennessee - http://www.mtsu.edu/tps This is a partnership with Middle Tennessee State University and the Library of Congress to make the use of LOC materials easier for teachers to use.
- The Virginia Center for Digital History - http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/. The Virginia Center for Digital History is based at the University of Virginia in Alderman Library. VCDH projects include the award-winning Valley of the Shadow Project as well as new online digital history initiatives--Virtual Jamestown, Race and Place: An African-American Community in the Jim Crow South, and the Correspondence of Dolley Madison.VCDH's mission is to develop high-quality, well-researched, and reliable history materials for the World Wide Web and deliver them to schools, colleges, libraries, historical societies, and the general public. Our goal is to make history in a digital format, make it accessible, appealing, and useful.
- The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture - http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam001.html
- The American Civil War Homepage - http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/. This is one of the best Civil War Sites. It was developed and is managed by UT professor, Dr. George Hoemann.
- The American Presidency - http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/5d_frame.html Information and resources about the American Presidency from the Smithsonian Institution.
- America's Story from America's Library - http://www.americaslibrary.gov/ "This Web site is brought to you from the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the largest library in the world and the nation's library.We hope you will find this Web site entertaining and fun to use. And, of course, we hope you will learn something from it. The site was designed especially with young people in mind, but there are great stories for people of all ages, and we hope children and their families will want to explore this site together." (Description copied from web site.)
- American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov - "The National Digital Library Program is an effort to digitize and deliver electronically the distinctive, historical Americana holdings at the Library of Congress, including photographs, manuscripts, rare books, maps, recorded sound, and moving pictures. To achieve its goal, this unique public-private program, also works in cooperation with members of the Digital Library Federation and other libraries and archives throughout the United States."
- Ben's Guide to Government for Kids - http://bensguide.gpo.gov/ "Tis site provides learning tools for K-12 students, parents, and teachers. These resources will teach how our government works,the use of the primary source materials of GPO Access, and how one can use GPO Access to carry out their civic responsibilities. And, just as GPO Access provides locator services to U.S. Government sites, Ben's Guide provides a similar service to U.S. Government Web sites developed for kids.
- Center for Civic Education: http://www.civiced.org/index.html - has links to many lesson plans and other resources.
- A Chronology of US Historical Documents - http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/. This site is sponsored by the College of Law at the University of Oklahoma. Documents are organized by date.
- Civil War Women - http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.html Primary sources about women of the civil war.
- Colonial Times and People: Life in the Thirteen Colonies - http://www.usa-people-search.com/content-colonial-times-and-people-life-in-the-thirteen-colonies.aspx
This page was suggested to me by Mrs. Elizabeth Owens and her class. - Colonial Kids: A celebration of life in the 1700's - http://library.thinkquest.org/J002611F/ This Thinkquest award winner was developed by a team of 4th graderes. (Thinkquest: Through ThinkQuest, young people work together in teams, use the Internet to research a topic in science, mathematics, literature, the social sciences or the arts, and publish their research as an educational web site for peers and classrooms around the world.)
- Congress Link - http://www.congresslink.org/ - provides information about the US Congress, how it works, its members and its leaders. It also provides lesson plans and other resources for teachers. It is sponsored by the Dirksen Center, a nonprofit, nonpartisian, educational and research center.
- Constitution Facts - http://www.constitutionfacts.com/ Interesting Facts about the Consititution
- Digital History - http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ An extensive site housed at the University of Houston with exhibits organized around topics in American history. Information can be searched and is well organized. This site is rich with primary sources and artifacts.
- The Great Chicago Fire - http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/intro/
- Freedom: A History of US - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/. This is the companion website to the PBS video series based on the History of US books by Joy Hakim. It is an incredible resource with primary documents, interactive games, an image database, and teaching materials.
- Historical Maps of the United States - http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/histus.html
- 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.
- The History Place - http://www.historyplace.com/. Contains content resources organized by important events in American History.
- History and Politics Out Loud - http://www.hpol.org/ HPOL is a searchable multimedia database documenting and delivering authoritative audio relevant to American history and politics. This project is supported by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Teaching With Technology Program in collaboration with Michigan State University and the National Gallery of the Spoken Word.
- Lewis and Clark on PBS - http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/class/index.html
- Lewis and Clark - National Geographic Society - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/west/
- The National Archives http://www.archives.gov/education/ This page contains reproducible copies of primary documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States, teaching activities correlated to the National History Standards and National Standards for Civics and Government, and cross-curricular connections.
- The National World War II Museum in New Orleans - http://www.nationalww2museum.org/learn/education/index.html?
- The Oregon Trail - http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Oregontrail.html
- Plimoth Plantation - http://www.plimoth.org/. This web site provides a virtual tour of the Plimoth Plantation, a living history museum.
- The Presidents - http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ Information about American Presidents from the Official White House Site
- The Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, and the Cold War - http://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/
- The Smithsonian Institution - http://www.si.edu/ This site is the opening page for the many resources provided by the US Smithsonian Institution.
- States and Capitals - http://www.50states.com/ Provides basic facts about each of the 50 states.
- Tennesse and the Civil War - http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/
- Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture - http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net./. This is a comprehensive reference book for the state of Tennessee, sponsored by the University of Tennessee Press and The Tennessee Historical Society.
- Tennesee History for Kids - http://www.tnhistoryforkids.org/. Tennessee History for Kids is trying to help 950,000 public school students and 60,000 public school teachers deal with the most under-supported subject in the curriculum. This non-profit organization provides quality content to the students of Tennessee and has become a well-recognized resource for the teaching of Tennessee history, civics, and geography.
- United States House of Representatives - http://www.house.gov/ Keep up to date with what is happening in the House and find your representative.
- United States Senate - http://www.senate.gov/ Keep up to date with the senate and find many other important facts about our government.
- The Virginia Center for Digital History - http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/. The Virginia Center for Digital History is based at the University of Virginia in Alderman Library. VCDH projects include the award-winning Valley of the Shadow Project as well as new online digital history initiatives--Virtual Jamestown, Race and Place: An African-American Community in the Jim Crow South, and the Correspondence of Dolley Madison.VCDH's mission is to develop high-quality, well-researched, and reliable history materials for the World Wide Web and deliver them to schools, colleges, libraries, historical societies, and the general public. Our goal is to make history in a digital format, make it accessible, appealing, and useful.
- Virtual Jamestown - http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/ A digital teaching and learning resources that explores the Jamestown settlement.
- The War http://www.pbs.org/thewar/edu_overview.htm. This is PBS teacher site about World War II.
- The White House - official site of the president of the United States. - http://www.whitehouse.gov/
- Ancient Egypt - http://guardians.net/egypt/
- Atlas of World Culture - http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ATLASES.HTM
- CyberSchoolbus - http://www.cyberschoolbus.un.org/ This site is sponspred by the United Nations. It provides k-12 resources on global issues.
- Greek Mythology - http://www.mythweb.com/
- Holocaust Studies - http://remember.org/ A "Cybrary of the Holcust - a rich site with many primary source documents.
- Mexico Pre-Columbian History - http://www.mexonline.com/precolum.htm Provides information on the Aztecs, Maya, Mexica, Olmecs, Toltec, Zapotecs & other Pre-European cultures, as well as information on museums, archeology, language & education.
- The Middle Ages - http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/. Find out what it was like to really live in the middle ages.
- TimeLime: Ancient Rome - http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/places-timelines/03-ancient-rome-timeline.htm Provides a chronological index of the history of Ancient Rome with extensive links to internet resources. Emphasis is placed upon the use of primary source material and new perspectives upon the roles of women in ancient time.
- World History Archives - http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/index.html A collection of resources about world history organized by continent.
- About.com: Geography - http://geography.about.com A very good site for general geographic information. Includes lots of Geography quizzes.
- GIS for schools - http://www.esri.com/industries/k-12/index.html
- Geographic. Org - http://www.geographic.org/. Contains maps, flag, information about people, and climate organized by country.
- Google Maps - http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&tab=wl With a Google account you can create your own maps with routes, places of interest, and pictures. Use this tutorial to learn more about this tool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TftFnot5uXw
- Mapquest - http://www.mapquest.com/Source of maps and driving directions. Like Google Maps it also has a My Maps feature.
- National Geographic Society - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/index.html
- National Geographic Maps - http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/from here you can use several mapping tools including map machine and topo explorer
- Online Map Creation - http://www.planiglobe.com/omc_set.html
- Outline Maps Houghton Mifflin - http://www.eduplace.com/ss/ssmaps/index.html
- Outline Maps - World Atlas - http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/testmaps/maps.htm
- Tennessee Electronic Atlas - http://tnatlas.geog.utk.edu/tea/ This site is hosted by the Department of Geography at the University of Tennessee. It is designed to act as a gateway for all people interested in Tennessee.
- USGS Maps - The National Map - http://nationalmap.gov/
- 5 Themes from About.Com: http://geography.about.com/od/teachgeography/a/5themes.htm
- 5 Themes Game: http://www.quia.com/pop/4680.html
- Econopolis - http://library.thinkquest.org/3901/
- Pedestrians Guide to the Economy - http://www.amosweb.com/cgi-bin/awb_nav.pl?s=pdg
- Glossaries of Economic Terms
- Lemonade Stand - A very well known resource with all the options - the original http://www.4webgames.com/lemonade
- Lemonade Stand with fewer options - http://www.classbrain.com/cb_games/cb_gms_bag/lemonade.html
- Minyanland - http://www.minyanland.com/
- The stock market game - http://www.smg2000.org/
- Fedville - http://www.frbsf.org/education/fedville/
- HandsOnBanking - https://www.wellsfargo.com/handsonbanking/
- Interactive Questions about personal finance - http://www.themint.org/index.html
- My Kids Bank - a virtual bank for parents and teachers - http://s2.mykidsbank.org/
- The Federal Reserve - http://www.FederalReserveEducation.org/. This site provides educational materials related to the Federal Reserve bank.
- Ask a Geologist - http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/ask-a-geologist/
- Equity Index: http://equity.4teachers.org/index.php
- Teaching Tolerance: http://www.tolerance.org/
- United Nations CyberSchoolbus: http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/
- Principles of Culturally Responsive Teaching: http://www.alliance.brown.edu/tdl/tl-strategies/crt-principles.shtml