History+Sites

A Few Websites for Teaching and Learning History through Technology [] University of Houston Digital History textbook site for U.S. History [] Kennedy Center Example: [] Gilded Age Mansions [|http://www.archives.gov] National Archives Example: [|http://archives.gov/southeast/education/resources-by-state/atlanta-campaign.html] The Atlanta Campaign of 1864: The Camera at War Education Homepage: [] Southeast Regional Archives Homepage: [] Teaching with Documents: [] Docs Teach: [] Create Your Own Unit [] National Archives of the UK Example: [] Why did Britain Become a Republic? [] Library of Congress [] For Teachers [] Jim Crow Jubilee Document Set and Lesson Plan [] Professional Development Modules [] Smithsonian Institution [] History Lesson Plans and note other teacher related topics in top bar [] National Endowment of the Humanities [] 1828 Election Lesson Plan [] National History Education Clearinghouse [] First Census Lesson Plan Other links include professional and historical links [] Gilder Lehrman collection of documents and more on U.S. History [] History Now online magazine of lesson plans and more [] Lesson Plans on the Erie Canal [] Podcasts by historians [] Teachers’ Domain of Digital Lesson Plans Example: [] [] Edutopia site with a variety of links and articles [] Edutopia’s homepage for Project Based Learning with examples [] Buck Institute for Education on Project Based Learning Gives examples and markets planning tools [] A site set up by Buck Institute to promote PBL Sign up for the free PBL Co-Laboratory to create projects and collaborate with others on projects as well as view existing collaborations [] A place to find partners around the world for collaborative online projects [] Website of The Tenement Museum on NYC’s Lower East Side [] A menu of lesson plans, primary sources, and online activities by grade level [] Online magazine //Teaching Tolerance// from The Southern Poverty Law Center with articles, activities, and lesson plans Example: [] A lesson plan on editorial cartoons and bias in immigration [] Online version of the journal //Rethinking// //Schools// with articles and reviews; RS also supports the following Zinn Ed Project [] A website inspired by Howard Zinn’s radical version of U.S. History with lesson plans arranged chronologically or by topic, and directions to other websites [] An ongoing updated reference from Tom Daccord of Best History Websites There are other good collections and recommendations of History Websites which you can locate through a Google Search [] America’s History in the Making from Oregon Public Broadcasting with videos, text, and lesson plans for U.S. History through Reconstruction Example: [] Primary Sources Video Workshop for Teachers [] Feel the History, a website developed and developing out of a class on studying and producing historical constructions of meaning in the style of Ken Burns.The website gives examples, rubrics, and more. Example: [] for student work and more [] Power-Point presentations on topics of U.S. and World History, including PPt’s by other teachers and students.I find them useful primarily to assign to students to critique or for a quick review. [] Video-Streaming from Discovery Channel shows [] SAS is an award winning technology resource for education and has just recently opened its resources free to teachers.Register on the homepage for a free subscription. [] A free and non-sign-up website for collaborative conversations for classroom projects or questions [] Another free way to work in class collaboratively [] Pageflakes homepage to introduce students to websites over the summer Michael.McCann@LakeviewAcademy.com -- My e-mail address to share ideas, frustrations, finds and revelations. And thanks for coming!-- Michael W. McCann