World History
- Fall Of Berlin Wall Anniversary
Sunday marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. AP News has a great site about the fall with interesting images and original news stories. The Washington Post has "stunning" before and after pictures, along with a crossword puzzle...
- Berlin Wall: 24th Anniversary Of The Fall
In 2009, the Denver Post put these great photographs of the fall of the Berlin Wall online. The site includes 60 stunning images --definitely worth checking out when you teach the Cold War later this Spring. My thanks to history teacher, David Korfhage,...
- Primary Sources: Teaching Students To Think
Stanford University has created over 75 lessons for high schools based entirely on primary documents. No textbooks, no lectures. The lessons are all about diaries, journals, pictures, documents, speeches, songs and photographs. The lessons are all in...
- A Plethora Of World History Links
This is an amazing site put together by Fordham University. It is nicely broken into the typical parts of world history (absolutism, scientific revolution up to WWI, WWII, Cold War, post Cold War, etc. It is a great resource for both US and world...
- China Wall Project
We have a great techie librarian who likes doing webquests for us. She likes to do it on wix.com. Here is a great one she did on the Great Wall of China. It has a word document with questions, links to a virtual tour of the wall, another...
World History
The Cold War
I doubt you are to the Cold War yet, but when you do, above is a nice short video on the Berlin Wall (and there are many other great ones at the History Channel). Here are more links that I found here.
- Fall Of Berlin Wall Anniversary
Sunday marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. AP News has a great site about the fall with interesting images and original news stories. The Washington Post has "stunning" before and after pictures, along with a crossword puzzle...
- Berlin Wall: 24th Anniversary Of The Fall
In 2009, the Denver Post put these great photographs of the fall of the Berlin Wall online. The site includes 60 stunning images --definitely worth checking out when you teach the Cold War later this Spring. My thanks to history teacher, David Korfhage,...
- Primary Sources: Teaching Students To Think
Stanford University has created over 75 lessons for high schools based entirely on primary documents. No textbooks, no lectures. The lessons are all about diaries, journals, pictures, documents, speeches, songs and photographs. The lessons are all in...
- A Plethora Of World History Links
This is an amazing site put together by Fordham University. It is nicely broken into the typical parts of world history (absolutism, scientific revolution up to WWI, WWII, Cold War, post Cold War, etc. It is a great resource for both US and world...
- China Wall Project
We have a great techie librarian who likes doing webquests for us. She likes to do it on wix.com. Here is a great one she did on the Great Wall of China. It has a word document with questions, links to a virtual tour of the wall, another...