• A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust   An overview of the people and events of the Holocaust through photographs, documents, art, music, movies, and literature
• America's Civil War Lots of information, photos, images, and artifacts, and interactive tools to teach about the Civil War
• America's Rhetoric  A database of 5000 text, audio, and video (streaming) public speeches, and more.
• BBC Interactive History - Includes animations, games, audio and video resources, virtual tours and more.
• Best of History Web Sites Created for teachers and students, this sites not only has links to the best history websites, it now features links to K-12 history lesson plans, teacher guides, activities, games, quizzes, and more throughout its pages
• Breaking Down the Walls Students have fun exploring and learning about different cultures from this website designed by 4th and 5th grade students,
• Congress for Kids Interactive, fun-filled experiences designed to help students learn about the foundation of our federal government and how its actions affect them
• C-Span Classroom Extensive coverage of 2008 presidential race
• Digital Docs in a Box Documentary kits containing a collection of annotated documents, images and audio clips primarily from the Library of Congress—all resources are copyright free and easily downloadable.
• Google Earth: Ancient Rome 3D simulation of ancient Rome. Google Earth must be installed on the computer.
• Jeopardy Games Review Jeopardy games for various subjects/grades.
• The Learning Network (New York Times) Grade-appropriate (3-12) analysis of news, timely articles, daily new quizzes, and lesson plans
• The Learning Page (Library of Congress)  Contains lesson plans, features, and activities using the primary sources that are available on the American Memory collection of the Library of Congress
• Mali - Ancient Crossroads of Africa Includes background knowledge, lesson plans, literature links, and online resources on the West African Empire of Mali.
• Map the News MetaCarta maps news articles to their location on a map
• Mr. Donn's American History Many lesson plans, activities and links about American history
• National Geographic Xpeditions Thousands of ideas, tools, and interactive adventures that bring geography to life.
• National History Education Clearinghouse Lots of great information and resources for history teachers.
• Native American and European Contact Web Resources  List of resources with content and links dealing with Native Americans and the European contact period.
• Our Documents.gov  Contains lesson plans and  activities that will help them incorporate 100 milestone documents from American history into classroom curriculum.
• OurCourts.gov A web-based education project designed to teach students civics and inspire them to be active participants in our democracy. Includes interactive games
• Primary Games Variety of activities and games
• SOL Social Studies Portaportal Links by grade level and SOL
• Teaching and Learning Virginia K-3 History and Social Science Standards of Learning Includes lesson plans, school connections, literature links, reading strategies, and online resources for kindergarten through grade three.
• Teaching History with Technology Provides lessons and activities
• Teaching with Historic Places A variety of products and activities that help teachers bring historic places into the classroom using properties listed in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places
• TerraServer  Provides a vast data store of maps and aerial photographs of the United States.
• US History Connecting the Past to the Present Include lesson plans, video clips, pictures, primary documents, Internet links, graphics, and maps.
• US History to 1877 Review Materials Technology resources from the VDOE
• Virginia Center for Digital History   Lesson plans using digital history
• Virginia Studies: Ready Resources for the Classroom  Great website organized by VA SOL including selected instructional resources, background information, and literature connections about the Commonwealth of Virginia
• Virginia Studies Review Materials Technology resources from the VDOE
• Virginia Trekkers Join 4 Henrico ITRTs as they visit the regions of Virginia through video podcasts
• You Are Here Activities and games to teach key consumer concepts from the FTC.
• WhoWhatWhen  A database of people and events from 1000 A.D. to the present. Create graphic timelines of periods in history and of the lives of individuals
• Zoom into Maps Offers hundreds of historical maps—maps showing European exploration of the Americas; migration, population and economic activity; the growth of roads, railways, canals, river systems, telephone systems, telegraph routes and radio coverage; landforms, recreational and wilderness areas; troop movements, battle routes and campsites during major U.S. military conflicts; and more
  
  

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Harrisonburg City Public Schools
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