World History
Here is a great site to help you teach World Wars I and II. There are links to images, a comprehensive site on trench warfare, the PBS companion website for the wars and primary source interviews. Now what might you do with it. You could look at what you need to cover and then add in the sites here as well as parts of your text or other sites and create a more meaningful webquest (than a standard worksheet) complete with images, video and primary documents.
- The Complete Works Of Charles Darwin Online
The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online. I was very pleased to discover this new website which apparently was just launched on 9 October 2006. It currently contains more than 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images of both publications and...
- Using Primary Sources On The Internet To Teach And Learn History.
Using Primary Sources on the Internet To Teach and Learn History. Primary sources are a good way to teach history. This paper gives some ideas for how to use the Internet to do this. From the site: The Internet enables teachers to enhance the teaching...
- The Myth Of Trench Warfare
Did you know that 88% of British solders fighting in the trenches in WWI survived? That's what this awesome BBC site on trench warfare in WWI seeks to explain. You can scroll through great graphics like the one below which explain different...
- Reading Like A Historian: Sourcing A Document
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- The Standard Of Ur
My colleague, Frances Coffey, sent me this site on the Standard of Ur and this one from the BBC. She has a great idea about how to use the images--have the kids analyze it and try to apply the characteristics of civilization to it. At both sites, you...
World History
World Wars I and II
- The Complete Works Of Charles Darwin Online
The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online. I was very pleased to discover this new website which apparently was just launched on 9 October 2006. It currently contains more than 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images of both publications and...
- Using Primary Sources On The Internet To Teach And Learn History.
Using Primary Sources on the Internet To Teach and Learn History. Primary sources are a good way to teach history. This paper gives some ideas for how to use the Internet to do this. From the site: The Internet enables teachers to enhance the teaching...
- The Myth Of Trench Warfare
Did you know that 88% of British solders fighting in the trenches in WWI survived? That's what this awesome BBC site on trench warfare in WWI seeks to explain. You can scroll through great graphics like the one below which explain different...
- Reading Like A Historian: Sourcing A Document
...
- The Standard Of Ur
My colleague, Frances Coffey, sent me this site on the Standard of Ur and this one from the BBC. She has a great idea about how to use the images--have the kids analyze it and try to apply the characteristics of civilization to it. At both sites, you...