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Teaching Resources on the Web

There are a number of useful web sites dealing with the teaching of history. This page lists some general educational sites as well as those focusing more specifically the teaching of history.

Teaching History Sites

• American Memory Learning Page
  Web site created by the Library of Congress to "assist educators as they use the American Memory web site to teach about United States history and culture. The site provides tips and tricks for using the American Memory collections, as well as frameworks, activities, and lessons that provide context for their use." Included are activities, lessons and resources such as:
  • Become a Historical Detective
  • Mindwalk Activity
  • Using Primary Sources in the Classroom
  • The Constitution: Counter Revolution or National Salvation
• Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest
  This UW center has created history curriculum guides covering Asian Americans in Washington State, Klondike Gold Rush, and Cold War in Washington State. The site also has the text from a UW survey course on PNW history and other material.
• History Matters and World History Matters
  These two sites are designed for high school and college teachers of history survey courses and provide a "gateway to Web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents and threaded discussions on teaching."
• H-Net Teaching
  Centralized page linking to 7 H-Net electronic discussion groups dealing with teaching. One group, H-High-S, "facilitates an ongoing discussion of curriculum, instructional strategies, and educational resources involved in teaching history, social studies, and related subjects in American secondary schools." Included are discussion logs, resources and reviews.
• Historian's Toolbox
  Collection of 13 web-based tutorials created by California State University covers everything from topic selection to locating, evaluating and documenting sources.
• National Archives Digital Classroom
  This site encourages "teachers of students at all levels to use archival documents in the classroom" and "provides materials from the National Archives and methods for teaching with primary sources." Included are activities, lesson plans and worksheets such as:
  • Written Document Analysis Worksheet
  • Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment
  • Photograph Analysis Worksheet
• National History Education Clearinghouse
  "Central online location for accessing high-quality resources in K-12 U.S. history education" including best practices, teaching materials and other support for teachers of history.

General Educational Sites

• EDSITEment
  This web site for educators includes a collection of high-quality web sites and lesson plans.
• Educator's Reference Desk
  Collections of lesson plans and links to online education material.
• ERIC - Educational Resources Information Center
  ERIC is national resource supported by the Department of Education providing access to a wide range of educational literature.
• The Gateway to Educational Materials
  "The Gateway to Educational Materials is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites."
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
  Created by a middle school library media specialist, this list "is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning."
• Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction for Washington State
  Provides links to curricular resources, federal and state legislative bodies concerned with education, including activities of the Commission on Student Learning and WWW servers at K-12 schools and universities nationwide. Also provides access to other useful collections of educational sources on the Web.

Image: Tulalip Indian School, c. 1912. Courtesy of American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Digital Collection.