Teacher talk - history

• Ethics in Education - Mr. Tiatorio questions the wisdom of pursuing a virtues or character education model for teaching ethics, and calls for a history-based, critical-thinking approach. Through teaching ethics, he offers to share his work, and hopes to create a clearinghouse where teachers can contribute their own concerns, experiences and creativity in this area. The basic postings on teaching ethics are two ethics workbooks for students in grades 7 through 12. These workbooks present ways to embed ethics education into standard world and American history programs.
• History Channel.com - Along with basic research tools such as a searchable database of articles, time lines linked to explanatory texts, and "This Day in History" facts, the History Channel web site offers a wealth of supplemental activities and materials for classroom use.
• History Link 101 helps history teachers sift through thousands of potentially usable sites for good curriculum material. Sites are organized by culture and are most appropriate for middle-school students.
• History Matters: the U.S. Survey Course on the Web was designed for high-school and college teachers of U.S. history courses, and serves as a gateway to web resources and offers useful materials for teaching U.S. history.
• History/Social Studies Web Resources - This exhaustive site contains thousands of links for K-12 history teachers in 32 categories. It has a veritable multimedia online bibliography for history teachers. In addition to lesson plans and curricula, there are links to topical lecture notes, magazines, radio programs, television shows, photographs, and more.
• HistoryTeacher.net - This site is divided into American history and government, AP American history, global studies, European civilization, and AP European civilization. Most include assignments, links, resources, timelines, biographies, definitions, lesson plans, and thematic units.
• National Archives lesson plans - History teachers and students can access reproducible primary source documents for presentations and reports. Organized by era, topics include revolution and the new nation; expansion and reform; civil war and reconstruction; development of the industrial United States; emergence of modern America; Great Depression and World War II; postwar United States; and contemporary United States.  
• Native Americans - This site from James Madison University is a super resource if you'd like to investigate the history and culture of native Americans, but don't want to re-teach the same history and stories. Included are more than 50 relevant sites, bibliographies of juvenile and young-adult literature, online poetry, a list of Indian nations recognized by the U.S. government, and a list of nations that maintain their own web sites. 
• Performance Edcucation: Social Studies - Provides a selection of free lesson plans that cover a wide variety of social studies topics. Register and log in for materials on ancient civilizations, middle ages, medieval times, modern times, world history, government, geography, and religions. 
• Picturing Modern America 1880-1920 - Featuring primary documents from the Library of Congress’s American Memories collection, this site can provide teachers and students with an interactive tool for interpreting and analyzing visual images. The strength of the site is in the step-by-step interactive activities to practice interpretation skills, not as a resource for independent research. It will help prepare students for looking at document-based questions. 
• SchoolHistory - Developed by Andrew Field, British history teacher and information and communications technology coordinator, this site integrates teaching and learning history with technology. Mini-lessons, full lessons and interactive lessons are provided. There are also extensive reviewed Internet links, interactive quizzes, free downloadable worksheets, PowerPoint presentations, and other resources.
• Using cultural artifacts & primary-source documents in the classroom - Includes links to primary source documents for the U.S. and world wide as well as tips, strategies, lesson plans and worksheets for using them.