Favorite Websites

• Teaching History
• Library of Congress
• Zinn Education Project
• Gilder Lehrman 
• Teaching American History

Video

• Discovery Streaming
• TeacherTube
• YouTube

Images

• Flickr Creative Commons
• Flickr
• Google Images

Googling History

• Advanced Google Searches
• Google Alerts
• Google Earth
• Google 3D Warehouse

Creating Projects with Primary & Secondary Sources

• Animoto
• WordClouds

Geography

Maps and Map Skills

• New York Times Immigration interactive map – Learn about where various groups of immigrants came from
• Google Maps Mania – What happens when you combine maps and information
• Stat Planet
• ScribbleMaps
• Gapminder–
• KMLFactBook
• Collections of Historical Maps and Ideas for Using Them In Your Classroom

Games

• GeoGuesser
• Sheppard Software Geography Games – They also have other social studies materials
• I like to Learn–
• Kids Geography Games:
• Purpose Games

History:

• National Park Service Web Rangers
• Smithsonian Virtual Tour
• Studying the Holocaust
• Harpers Weekly Online
• Discovering Lewis & Clark
• Faces of the Civil War

Current Events:

• Today’s Front Pages – Newspaper from pages from around the country and the world
• BBC NewsMap– Click on the marker and get the link to the story
• CNN 10 
• Scholastic News

Timelines:

• Timetoast – create and share timelines:
• Hyperhistory
• Sutori

Miscellaneous:

• Seinfeld teaches History

• Photos For Class – Photos are automatically cited when they are downloaded

• English Tools – 25 tools for learning English. Designed for English teachers and learners

• 101 Great Sites for Social Studies Class

• Teaching with Documents (lessons plans and activities from the National Archives)

• Go Social Studies Go

• 21 Top Websites for Social Studies Teachers

• History Engine – a growing list of articles and episodes

• Resources for Teaching Social Studies

• Historical Dictionary by History Today