Social Studies
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
13 Good Resources for Social Studies Teachers
I recently met an old colleague of mine for breakfast. Steve and I team taught a course together for a couple of years before he retired a few years ago. During our conversation he said to me, "Richard, what I knew you were good at was finding things our students liked."
History Animated
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good animation is worth ten thousand. After reading book after book about the Pacific War and finding only complicated maps with dotted lines and dashed lines crisscrossing the pages, we decided to depict the key naval and land battles using animation technology.
8" Self-Propelled Howitzer Photograph by SP6 Cybrary Man Utah Memorial - Pearl Harbor, Hawaii American Wars: Explore Military History Online American Military History The Price of Freedom Americans at War Military History Online
Wars
Internet History Sourcebooks Project Paul Halsall, Editor Last Modified: Nov 4 2011 | linked pages may have been updated more recently The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
If you’re looking for a free and useful tool to help bring history to life, Google has you covered. The search giant has been making big strides into education lately and classrooms around the world are benefiting. The Google Cultural Institute is an elegantly designed but elaborate resource that offers a glimpse into key happenings from years past. The website uses a horizontal-scrolling timeline view to help create a sense of time passing.
42 Interactive History Lessons From Google
Happy Valentine's Day My Angel last night I received a letter from you. I learned how strong was the pain on the day we had to separate. Do you remember those beautiful kisses?
The Great War Archive | First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Education Week Teacher: Getting Students to Think Like Historians
Published Online: October 2, 2012 First Person By Jeffery D. Nokes Premium article access courtesy of Education Week Teacher .The following sites link to online simulations, interactive web sites, virtual museums and lessons for face-to-face simulations. There are some very cool things out there! This is a partial list; there are new constantly being added! Find your own by doing google searches with keywords such as "interactive", "flash" and "simulation" along with content words like "Civil War" or "George Washington." You can also check out the Video Games page here at Social Studies Central for more research, resources and sites for more complex video games.
Online Interactive Simulations | Social Studies Central
Pennsylvania History
54 Teaching and Lesson Plan Ideas for History Teachers #sschat
Since I've recently given a set of my curated plans for math teachers, English teachers and general common core standards (see end of this post), I thought I'd share some lessons for history teachers. If you're a history teacher and not following #sschat on Twitter, you should. This is a set of 12 lessons about what it was like for children to live in the second world war. I love this set of lessons because it builds empathy and helps teach the story of world war 2 from a child's perspective.Civics
World History
US History