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DocsTeach
The National Archives provides tools, activities, and primary sources to turn your students into real historians!

Teaching with Primary Documents
Lesson plans plus analysis worksheets for written documents, artifacts, cartoons, maps, motion pictures, photographs, posters, and sound recordings.

The History Project/Marchand Archive
Roland Marchand developed documentary source problems for his students at the University of California Davis. The History Project gathers these lessons here and continues to build on Marchand's model. Each assignment encourages students apply their analytical skills to a set of primary sources from which they can deduce and explain events from the past. Each has also been written or adapted for use in university, high school, and middle school classrooms.

Library of Congress Presentations
"Presentations look across the American Memory collections to investigate curricular themes. They include historical background, helping to tell the story behind the theme."

Court Games
Your students will learn by playing games: Do I Have a Right? and Supreme Court Decision. Teacher guides included. Students can print the results of how they played the game for evaluation and discussion. Have fun!

World Digital Library
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

The Great Depression Curriculum
Teaching resources from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Federal Reserve Education Website
Links to instructional materials and tools that can increase your understanding of the Federal Reserve, economics and financial education.

Games About Historical Topics
Links provided by Digital History.

Five Themes of Geography
Lesson plans and activity ideas from National Geographic.

Social Studies Learning Materials from Britannica
Interactive lessons, animations, study guides and activities.

Digital History for Teachers
Using new technologies to enhance teaching and research.

The Learning Page
Dozens of teacher-created, classroom-tested lesson plans using primary sources from the Library of Congress' American Memory Project. Ideas for using primary sources.

NCSS
Resources for teachers from the National Council for the Social Studies.

NCHE
Resources for teachers from the National Council for History Education.

Best of History Web Sites
An award-winning portal created for students and history educators by EdTechTeacher.org. History games and animations.

Twelve Great Lessons for Teaching the Great Depression
Great ideas plus links to useful sources!

Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
An overview of the people and events of the Holocaust through photographs, documents, art, music, movies, and literature.

Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms
Bring historically significant map documents into your classroom. These maps illustrate the geographical dimensions of American history. Each map is accompanied by lesson plans written for four grade levels and designed to support a variety of social studies, history, and geography curricula.

National Geographic
National Geographic helps you teach.

New York Times Learning Network
"The New York Times Learning Network is a free service for students in grades 3-12, their teachers and parents."
American History Lesson Plans
Global History Lesson Plans
Civics Lesson Plans
Current Events Lesson Plans
Economics Lesson Plans
Geography Lesson Plans
Social Studies Lesson Plans

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
The Avalon Project provides documents relevent to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government and organized by century. There is a wealth of PRIMARY SOURCE material at Avalon.

SUBSCRIPTION DATABASES

Explores the pre-modern world with in-depth focus on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
Do you want to use Ancient & Medieval History Online at home?

Use this Gale database to research people, events, and topics in U.S. history. It includes primary sources, images, and video. (Funded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners) FULL SUITE OF GALE DATABASES
Do you want to use Gale U.S. History in Context at home IN MASSACHUSETTS?
Do you want to use Gale U.S. History in Context OUTSIDE MASSACHUSETTS?

Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience.
Do you want to use American History Online at home?

Use this Gale database to research people, events, and topics in world history. It includes primary sources, images, and video. (Funded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners) FULL SUITE OF GALE DATABASES
Do you want to use Gale World History in Context at home IN MASSACHUSETTS?
Do you want to use Gale World History in Context OUTSIDE MASSACHUSETTS?

Covers people, places, and events from mid-15th century to the present.
Do you want to use Modern World History Online at home?

This Gale database offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. (Funded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners) FULL SUITE OF GALE DATABASES
Do you want to use Gale Global Issues in Context at home IN MASSACHUSETTS?
Do you want to use Gale Global Issues in Context OUTSIDE MASSACHUSETTS?

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updated 06/09/2011