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Resources For California Teachers
- History Course Models for California Teachers - This site contains history/social science course models that meet the California State Standards. It includes model lessons and links that lead to publications and other resources that teachers might find useful when teaching the history/social science course models.
- History Day in California - has the Theme Supplement for History Day. The Theme this year was "Turning Points in History: People, Ideas, and Events."
- SCORE CyberGuides for History/Social Studies - SCORE stands for the "Schools of California Online Resources for Education". This San Bernardino County Office of Education site provides CyberGuides (web-searching activities for students) in the area of History and Social Sciences.
Resources For History Teachers
- National History Day has all the most recent information about History Day, this years theme, including student guides, etc. It also has winning projects from previous years.
- History Teacher's Net - One of the best resource sites for History teachers on the net.
- World History Sites in English and español - History teacher Carlos Diaz offers World History links in english (páginas de historia universal en inglés)
- Flags of Our Ancestors - Contains pictures, brief descriptions and histories of hundreds of historical flags. Topics include: Prussian, English, Early Colonies, American Revolution, Mexican-American War, Civil War, World War I & II, Third Reich, Cold War, and Modern Conflict Flags.
- K-12 Subject Guide - A table from "Educating.Com" that lists pre-school and K-12 subjects by grade level in order to make it easier for teachers and students to find high quality educational resources.
- Bartleby.Com - The "Great Books" online, need I say more... If you haven't visited this site, shame on you!
- Marco Polo - Provides high quality standards-based Internet content and professional development for K-12 teachers and students. Excellent Search Feature.
- PBS TeacherSource On-Line - PBS Teacher Previews is the weekly online newsletter from PBS Online designed specifically for K-12 educators. Each week, you'll find details on PBS broadcast programs with educational taping rights.
- Attack on America - A movie that can be downloaded on the 9/11 attack. The movie is 20 minutes long and is 7 megs in size. It WILL take a long time to download. (Beware of link "http://www.politicsandprotest.org" it now forwards you to the Penthouse Magazine Website)
- WebQuests - This site is designed to serve as a resource to those who are using the WebQuest model to teach with students on the web. It has excellent examples and materials made by teachers who use WebQuests with their students. The WebQuests concept was developed at San Diego State University by Bernie Dodge and Tom March.
- 42eXplore - Why start with a search engine, when you can find a pathfinder to fit your needs at 42eXplore? On this web project you'll find definitions, activities, and links and resources for over 200 thematic topics.
- Links to the Past" - This to the gateway to all the National Parks Service sites. It is an educational gold mine.
- Digital History - A complete online American History resource for teachers and students.
- History Maps - This is part of the Best of HISTORY WEB SITES. An excellent links list for maps.
- Mr. Sabato' Portal - Thousands of links for students, parents, and teachers put together by George Sabato, a middle school teacher at Edwin Markham Middle School in Placerville, California.
- Headline History - This site is full of true stories about English history covering four eras: Romans, Tudors, Victorians and World War Two.
- History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers - The major purpose of this site is to encourage the use of the World Wide Web as a tool for learning and teaching and to provide some help for K-12 classroom teachers in locating and using the resources of the Internet in the classroom.
- History on the Net - historical information linked to the English National Curriculum, for teachers, pupils, parents and anyone who wishes to further their historical knowledge.
- Teacher's Closet - A variety of teaching and classroom resources including a nice selection of lesson Plans (Grades K-8).
- Awesome Library - organizes the Web with 20,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.
- The History Buff - providing FREE primary souce material for students, teachers, and history buffs.
- SchoolHistory.co.uk - Online History lessons, games, worksheets, quizzes and links.
- Sites for Teachers - Fun, FREE, and Effective ESL and K12 resources for teachers. Lots of FREE printable resources. Crosswords, Word Searches and Flash Cards. Animal habitat cards and more . . . A+ Site for Teachers.
- History News Network - Articles and opinion on all aspects of history and current events written by journalists and historicans.
- "Wow, Your Students With Active Learning!!!" - A Presentation by Matthew Durant on Webquest Course Copyright Laws.
- Best on the Web for Teachers - Thousands of sites filled with teacher resources. Incredible collection from "www.teach-nology.com."
- Watching America - If you are focusing on America in the global context, you can discover what the world thinks about the USA at this interesting website.
- History/Social Studies Training & Resources - A list of links compiled by the Tahlequah Public Schools Title III Program
- Teacher TidBytes - Many World History links are listed for educators on this informative site. It is part of the larger KidInfo.com site.
- Internet Resources for Historians - This Historical list includes sites for Archaeology/Anthropology, Political Science, Sociology, and other disciplines which support History are listed.
- My Virtual Reference Desk - History - Nicely organized reference list of history related sites, part of Refdesk.Com
- Arts Education Resources - A site full of Art History, interactive quizzes, art and music links, lesson plans, online galleries, and learning games, from FamilyEducation.Com
- The White House - This connects you to the White House Web Site. It is filled with goodies.
- A Chronology of United States Historical Documents - Every important historical document from United States history collected by the University of Oklahoma Law Center.
- Discovery Channel School - is filled with free lesson plans, activities, and links for educators, including great, easy-to-use puzzle makers. The site includes permissions for classroom teachers to record and use Discovery Channel broadcasts copyright free.
- Scholastic Teacher's Page - teacher resources from Scholastic Magazine. Always worth a look. (This site contains information and advertising about Scholastic and third party products.)
- CNN Education Page - teacher resources from CNN. This site contains Teacher Resources, Educational News, and a Student News Page.
- Presidential History Resources - New, original material, written by teachers and historians, is being added to this site on a regular basis. It includes Presidential Biographies, Essays, Lesson Plans, Web Resources, Historical Documents, Political and Historical Glossaries, and an online calendar called "Today in Presidential History" which tells you key presidential actions or events for any day of the year.
- The Costume Page - A page with over 2,000 links to websites about changing clothing styles throughout history.
- Teacher's First - Features resources and lesson plans for K-12 teachers. It includes classroom materials reviewed by teachers, then sorted by subject and grade level.
- Constitution Resources - A great resource on the Constitution with over 300 articles.
- The Charter of Freedom - Dozens of fascinating facts about the Constitution and the signers from the National Archives.
- The Historical Text Archive - is a fantastic collection of historical documents and papers about history collected by the Mississippi State University. Includes both American and World History sources.
- BBC Learning - The BBC website contains over half a million pages of news, entertainment and factual material. There's also a wealth of educational programs available across the BBC's TV and radio channels.
- BlueWeb'n Learning Library - is a collection of learning-oriented websites. Lots of activities, lesson plans, etc.
- Busy Teacher's Website K-12 - provides teachers with direct source materials, lesson plans/classroom activities with a minimum of site-to-site linking.
- Educating.Net - provides you with a convenient and comprehensive portal to all forms of education, including all levels K-12, Home schooling, Distance Learning, College Degrees, Homework Help, GED/High School Diploma Online, Professional Re-training, Continuing Education, Fun Learning, References - and everything in between.
- Small Planet - A resource for teachers, includes downloadable lesson plans.
- The World Lecture Hall - is the ultimate Web resource for the independent student.
- Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) - More than 30 Federal agencies make hundreds of federally supported education resources available at this web site.
- History and Social Studies Sites - Part of Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators, one of the best teaching sources on thee web.
- Education World - is like Yahoo! especially made for teachers. A great site to get educational materials.
- Center for Computer-aided Egyptological Research - The CCER has a specialized search engine, menus and sub-menus for computer-aided research on Ancient Egypt. It is provided by Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
- The History Net - This site is filled with a wide range of history topics that are frequently updated. A great place for historical research.
- B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper provides on line help for students working on homework, or research projects. It has been online since 1986 and has hundreds of helpful sites chosen by B.J.
- Smithsonian Institution Educators Page - includes curriculum kits, and image libraries for downloading.
- Educator's Reference Desk - The new home of AskERIC, provides lesson plans, on-line help for classroom teachers, and much more.
- Smithsonian Magazine - Reprints from the Smithsonian Magazine
- Dyann K. Schmidel Home Page - is an excellent resource for the classroom teacher. It contains all sorts of stuff for educational instruction, Bio-Chem Net, and some dynamite examples of high school web sites.
- Web Ring - As the name implies, the K12 Resource Ring is a ring of sites providing good K12 resources - with an emphasis on software and electronic learning.
- Historia's Castle - Provides on-line scoring quizzes on World History topics. They are in multiple choice and true/false format, scores and provides review of answers.
- World History - attitudes and events, from early humanity to 2000 CE, with "Thematic Index of Selected Subjects in History"
- 3D Flags - This site has waving flags for every country in the world. They are downloadable for free use as long as you provide a link on your site to 3dflags.com
Lesson Plan Library
- Lesson Plan Library - Part of Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators, one of the best teaching sources on the web.
- Awesome Lesson Plans - Another collection of links to sites that contain lesson plans. Divided by topic. (Part of the Awesome Library)
- Teaching With Documents - Lesson Plans from the National Archieves.
- Lesson Plans from Core Knowledge® National Conferences - This collection contains units and lesson plans developed by teachers in Core Knowledge schools. The units and lessons were presented at recent national Core Knowledge conferences.
- Lesson Plans 4 Teachers - part of the Educator's Network. With over 120,000 original lesson plans found on hundreds of different sites throughout the Internet, it's nice to know that someone is trying to organize this chaos for you.
- Downloadable Resources - 350+ Free downloadable Worksheets, PowerPoint presentations, PDF Files, and CD-Rom tasksheets.
- Lesson Plans Center - In the Teach-nology Lesson Plans Center you will find your way to well over 18,100 lesson plans. They add roughly 100 lessons to their index weekly.
- Free Teacher Worksheets - offers a wide range of free teacher worksheets that can be used for reinforcement and review. (Part of Teach-nology.com)
- CSUN Lesson Plans - Dr. Marty Levine, Professor Emeritus of Secondary Education, California State University, Northridge (CSUN), has gathered lesson plans and resources from the Internet which social studies teachers will find useful.
- NBISP Home Page - This site, sponsored by the North bay International Studies Project, provides links to teaching information about Indian culture, history, and religion. It includes downloadable teacher produced lession plans on Africa.
- Retanet - This high school Latin America lesson plan exchange currently features 65 teacher made social studies lessons.
- Teacher's First Lessons - Featured lesson plans for K-12 teachers. A quick introduction to some of the material available on the Teacher's First site.
- A to Z Teacher Stuff's Online Collection - 269 original lesson plans submitted by teachers ... browse their growing lesson collection
- Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) - More than 30 Federal agencies make hundreds of federally supported education resources and lesson plans available at this web site.
- Forced to Flee: Famine and Plague/A> - lesson plans for the potato famine from Discovery Education that is suitable for students in grades six through eight.
- Lesson Plans Page - One of the best PreK-12 teacher resources on the Internet, and it's completely free!
- New York Times Lesson Plans - This archive contains hundreds of free lesson plans for grades 6-12. You may perform a keyword search to retrieve a lesson, browse the archive by subject, or scroll down the page to view the most recently published lessons.
- Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plans - This collection contains more than 2000 unique lesson plans which have been written and submitted to AskERIC by teachers from all over the United States and the world.
- Lesson Plans and Activities - A good collection of links (some of whom are listed here) to sites that contain lesson plans. (Part of the Best of HISTORY WEB SITES)
- Smithsonian Lesson Plans - Smithsonian educational materials emphasize inquiry-based learning with primary sources and museum collections.