World History
- When Work Is Done
When Work is Done Teaches about primary sources using photographs to compile an album of early 20th Century American leisure life. It is geared towards high school students. From the site: The main vehicle for this lesson is the web site "When Work is...
- World War I Anniversary: National Archives
Britain's National Archives launched a great site for the 100th anniversary of World War I. This week they launched the first batch of digitized war diaries. You'll also find pod casts and videos and much more worth investigating. My thanks...
- Models Of The Universe: Primary Sources From The Library Of Congress
Studying the Scientific Revolution or the Enlightenment? Check out these primary sources from the Library of Congress showing Aristotle's early view of the universe with the earth at its...
- Mit's Visualizing Asian Cultures
This MIT site, called "Visualizing Cultures"is a great resource for both World History and AP World when we study imperialism. The site includes outstanding visual narratives on which curriculum units are based. Most of the curriculum units ask students...
- Visual Statistics
This site is quite possibly the coolest one I have ever seen. (Thanks to FreeTech4Teachers for the link) Gapminder has tons of statistics that you can show your students in a visual format. Rather than dry charts and graphs, your students can see...
World History
20th Century Heroes and Villains from the National Archives
My colleague, Jeff Feinstein, who teaches US and European history, sent me this awesome link to the UK's National Archives. It deals with 20th century heroes and villains: Winston Churchill and the bombing of Dresden, John Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Joseph Stalin and the industrialization of the USSR, Benito Mussolini and the invasion of Abyssinia, Harry Truman and the atomic bomb, Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement.
Click on each name and you'll find a treasure of sources, photographs, charts, graphs, and posters. The site's design is great and the sources for each individual are quite manageable for the kids.
I think that this site along with the curriculum sources from Stanford are among the best for their ease of use in the classroom.
- When Work Is Done
When Work is Done Teaches about primary sources using photographs to compile an album of early 20th Century American leisure life. It is geared towards high school students. From the site: The main vehicle for this lesson is the web site "When Work is...
- World War I Anniversary: National Archives
Britain's National Archives launched a great site for the 100th anniversary of World War I. This week they launched the first batch of digitized war diaries. You'll also find pod casts and videos and much more worth investigating. My thanks...
- Models Of The Universe: Primary Sources From The Library Of Congress
Studying the Scientific Revolution or the Enlightenment? Check out these primary sources from the Library of Congress showing Aristotle's early view of the universe with the earth at its...
- Mit's Visualizing Asian Cultures
This MIT site, called "Visualizing Cultures"is a great resource for both World History and AP World when we study imperialism. The site includes outstanding visual narratives on which curriculum units are based. Most of the curriculum units ask students...
- Visual Statistics
This site is quite possibly the coolest one I have ever seen. (Thanks to FreeTech4Teachers for the link) Gapminder has tons of statistics that you can show your students in a visual format. Rather than dry charts and graphs, your students can see...