Quality Teaching Tools
Special Days
General Teaching Tools
United States History
World History
United States Government and Politics
- Online Timer
- STEPS Handbook - Edmond, Oklahoma School District -- (The best tool box I have found to date)
- Powerpoint Palooza -- From Sue Pojer (patron saint of secondary social studies teachers)
- Teaching with Documents -- From the National Archives
- Debatepedia -- Excellent Debate topics with valuable documentation
- Digital History Reader -- From Virginia Tech -- Excellent for U.S. and European Hist.
- Archive.com
- Fair Use -- Federal Copyright Law Interpreted
- Social Studies Help Center
- Project Gutenberg - Electronic Books
- New and Used Books, Textbooks, Rare and Out of Print Books
- A Handbook for Using Historical Documents to Improve Student's Thinking Skills at the Secondary Level
- QuizStar
- The Center for Learning
- Puzzlemaker - A variety of formats
- Maping United States History
- Selected Immigration Graphs
- Online Map Bank
- Teaching Sectionalism in U.S. History - Missouri Compromise and the Nullification Crisis
- Photo Essay Assignment
- Thesis Builder
- Semantic Feature Analysis Chart Lesson
Special Days
General Teaching Tools
- Picture History -- Incredible resource of images.
- Digital History - A Quality Source of Primary Documents.
- Taxonomy of Socratic Questions - for teachers who use the Socratic Method
- Thematic Approach to Teaching
- U.S. Historical Eras - Search
- Blank Blackline Maps
- Shared Lesson Plans and Strategies
- http://filmsite.org/
- The Center for Learning
- Ken Kantor's History Webquests
- Education World
- Ohio Treasure Chest of Technology Resources
- Maps, Graphs, and Tables
- Interesting Map -- A map that compares the GNP's of other countries to different states of the United States
- How to Write a News Story
- The DBQ Project
United States History
- The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - Podcasts and other great resources
- The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson and the Growth of Party Politics - by EdSitement - National Endowment for the Humanities.
- U.S. History Powerpoint Presentations by Mr. Richard Houston of Harwich High School, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
- Herff jones nystrom united states history -
World History
United States Government and Politics
- A Great Lesson on Reapportionment
- Constitutional Rights Foundation Lesson Plans on Constitutional Issues
- Bill of Rights Institute -- Lessons on Key Supreme Court Cases