American History Teaching Resources and Lesson Plans

A Book in Time: Written by a teacher for other teachers. The original project started simply as a chronological history booklist, but listings of crafts, timelines, maps, and other resources have been added over the years. The site's purpose is to help history teachers find all kinds of extracurricular resources to enrich their classes.

American History Calendar: A guide calendar site showing American history in a unique way: through a user-friendly web calendar. Birthdays of important people in American history and important events in American history can be viewed; interactive - browse by specific person or event. A printer friendly version of the calendar is also available.

Digital History: Designed to help instructors at all levels bring the past to life and to help students understand the knowledge of the past; interactive modules, classroom handouts, fact sheets, leaning modules

Discovery Education Lesson Plan Library: U.S. History Lesson Plans: Divided by grade levels: Grades K-5, 6-8, 9-12; Some lesson plans include suggestions for adaptations for older or younger audiences

Educational American History Powerpoints: Links to American History powerpoints to download and use over again

Educational American History Videos: Links to American History videos

Free Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: American History: Animations, Primary Documents, Photos, and Videos

Have Fun with History: An online resource full of American History streaming videos, activities, links and resources

The History Net: Contains daily features, photo galleries and over 5,000 articles originally published in the website's various magazines; something from almost every period of history

The History Place: Dedicated to students, educators, and all who enjoy history; History of the United States from the past and into the future

Historical Text Archive: Publishes high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects.

History Channel: The States: History, video, image gallery, fun facts and more

History Lab: Online template where teachers can build primary-source based lessons and activities for use by their students. Teachers can store their lessons in the History Lab database and retrieve or modify them at any time

History Matters:An annotated guide to the most useful websites for teaching U.S. history and social studies.

SCORE: History/ Social Studies: Over 5000 websites aligned to California's History/Social Science Curriculum

Educational American History Powerpoints: Links to American History powerpoints to download and use over again

Educational American History Videos: Links to American History videos

Free Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: American History: Animations, Primary Documents, Photos, and Videos

Have Fun with History: An online resource full of American History streaming videos, activities, links and resources

Teaching American History: Created by teachers in Virginia at a Center for History and New Media workshop; collection of lesson plans; videos; other American History resources

The History Net: Contains daily features, photo galleries and over 5,000 articles originally published in the website's various magazines; something from almost every period of history

The History Place: Dedicated to students, educators, and all who enjoy history; History of the United States from the past and into the future



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