Articles about history teaching
General resources for teaching history
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Active History
The interactive website at
Wolverhampton Grammar
School. Useful activities, lesson plans, puzzles to KS3 & 4 (ages 11-16).
Regrettably, despite being a compendium of items submitted free of
charge by practicing teachers, this site has become subscription
only, succumbing to the availability of UK government money for
schools to use the internet, but making it unavailable to history
students worldwide on the web.
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History Matters! Designed for high school
and college teachers of U.S. History courses. This site serves as a
gateway to Web
resources and offers useful practical
materials for teaching history.
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History Now
A quarterly online journal for American history teachers and
students. All issues are archived at this link
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Learn.co.uk
From the Guardian (subscription
only: your school may have it)
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Learn History
Site for KS3 & 4
(ages 11-16)
History. Good links to activities, powerpoints available on the web
for teachers to use.
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Puzzlemaker very good tool from the
Discovery channel. You enter in the key words, questions whatever and it
will miraculously turn them into word searches/crossword puzzles, word
mazes. One word of note: it can be very slow in the evening when everyone
is using them for tomorrows lesson plans...
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Teacher
Oz's Kingdom of History: A database of topically organized internet
resources for use by students, teachers, and others. Focuses mainly, but
not exclusively on U.S. History.
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Teaching History
- Directory of Online Educational Resources on Teaching World History
Huge directory of appropriate sites world wide in the English language
for teaching history
Schemes work/lesson plans
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SchoolHistory.co.uk home
Excellent site for teaching resources and ideas. Contributions
are made by teachers and include lesson plans, resources, and
differentiated materials as well as links
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Education
World Lesson Planning Channel
From the US
Education World site. Beware: this can be slow to load,
especially early morning US time - leaving planning to the last
minute?
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Edsitement!
Created by the
US National Endowment for the Humanities, EdSITEment is a portal to
the “best of humanities on the web.” The websites featured on
EdSITEment have been peer-reviewed by panels of educators and
academics. The specially prepared lesson plans utilize online
resources.
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ozhistorybytes An
innovative online journal published three times a year, with
articles designed for students and teachers. Several items are
linked to teaching schemes and ideas. Part of the Commonwealth (of
Australia) History Project.
UK focus:
The following are
UK based where much money has been spent centrally to develop IT teaching
resources, but the resources can be applied easily elsewhere too:
the official bit?
the
unofficials!
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Teachers'
Virtual School Online. UK lesson plans and materials for KS1-4.
Courtesy of Spartacus. Information on a selection of topics. Even if
you choose not to use this, some of the associated resources are
useful to use themselves or to adapt.
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SchoolsHistory
This site provides Online History lessons, easy to access background
material, GCSE revision tasks and downloadable resources for teachers.
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History Ideas
Brief list of pdf'd resources by Mark Warner
 casahistoria
home
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for updates and current topic news
2. General history
classroom resources on the web
- If you teach the International
Baccalaureate or any of the post 2008 England & Wales GCE
syllabuses you can click on your Board below to get a pdf copy
of the syllabus indicating precisely where casahistoria sites
are available for you to link to.
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Keeping Kids Safe If
you are concerned about how the internet or mobile devices might
be used by your students, this guide, suggested by Alice J and
produced by o2 should help, despite the links to o2 services.
General sites
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Association of
teachers websites Part of the UK
National Grid for Learning. includes
Member sites -
Useful educational sites for Primary and Secondary teachers, pupils and
parents. Organised by subject area and contains the main Key Stage
History sites.
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Best of History Web
Sites portal created for history teachers, students, and general
history enthusiasts. Best of History Web Sites now features links to K-12
history lesson plans, teacher guides, activities, games, quizzes, and more
throughout its pages.
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Internet Resources
in History Useful list of general resources for teachers
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studentsfriend.com A guide for high school teachers of world history
(and geography). Content includes fundamental information about history
teaching, resources, a concise alternative textbook and lesson plans
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Teaching American History Resource Center
provides links to and information about publications, resources, and
activities for teachers of history.
Free commercial/public sites
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BBC
Less comprehensive than in the past due to regulatory pressure from the
subscription sites, but still an excellent resource.
BBC Schools history
links to:
primary,
11-16,
16+
Excellent resources with links to bite size and the many, many sites
that cater for adult interest history. Plenty quizzes and
exercises if you have the IT room booked.... If you have links to their
older sites (eg GCSE sites on the Dictators) use
The Wayback machine to find them again!
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Discovery The school site of the TV company.
Especially useful is Puzzlemaker for easy
word searches, crossword puzzles and more, made by you using their web
site...
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pbsteachersource
US Public Broadcasting Service site helps preK-12 (secondary) educators
learn effective ways to incorporate online tools in the classroom
through nearly 4,000 free lesson plans, teachers' guides, homeschooling
guidance and other resourceful activities - all correlated to national
and state curriculum standards.
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TES Teaching
resources Over 282,211 free teaching resources to use in your
classroom
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Unfortunately,
more and more commercial sites are becoming just that: subscription
only. So unless you can get your college/school to subscribe ....
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3. "Traditional" resources on the web:
documents,
libraries & museums
Documents
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Spartacus Enough
said!
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Sources
on the web Excellent teacher resource on document usage from the
Center for History and New Media, George Mason
University. Well structured with guides for students on using sources.
 Documents
online are one of the real advantages the web
brings to history teaching. For a full selection see casahistoria
searches
(Documents)
or the individual casahistoria pages.
Libraries and museums
- some examples
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Most provide
resources and materials for teachers. You should google for an
appropriate/local one and then see what the museum site offers you. Many
offer a great deal eg
US Holocaust
Museum; UK National
Archives (It's new revamp provides many more materials for
teachers); British Library.
Some though, are better than others ....
Caen Memorial
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The best museum
sites now offer an interactive feel that allows them to be used as a
classroom activity, even without a visit!: eg
In Flanders Fields Museum
(but beware the zippier sites like this with vision & sound and flash
will need fast meaty networks to run them with a class at once!)
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Virtual Library museums For a list of museums on the web from
WWW-Virtual library. Howvere the WWW-VL is most useful for the next
entry:
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WWW-VL
History Central Catalogue an
internet library if ever there was one. Huge listings (not annotated but
exhaustive!). This is the European 'annex'. The
USA Mirror
is
at Indiana University.
and if after
all that you feel the need to talk....
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4. Displays
Many
have a US bias, but can be filterered through if you are elsewhere..
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AnyDay-in-History
as it says.... Just pick the one ...
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BBC On This Day: Front Page articles
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On This Day
Daily
historical facts, events, famous
birthdays, world history and music history, United States history bias.
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ozhistorybytes A useful one this!
Online journal
published three times a year, with articles designed for students and
teachers. Printed out, the articles make good display items for older
pupils.
Part of
the Commonwealth (of Australia) History Project.
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This
Day in Alternate History
A daily calendar of alternate history
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