8th Grade - US History

From Law-Related Education (Lessons for every grade level)

Great 8^th Grade Resources from San Antonio ISD and North Ridge Middle School

Oyez, Oyez, Oh Yay! - focuses on the landmark court decisions that Texas students must know to be successful in preparing for the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) assessment tests in U.S. government and history

National Archives - Teach with documents using our online tool. Locate teachable primary sources. Find new and favorite lesson plans, and create your own activities for your students.

DocsTeach – The online tool for teaching with documents, from the National Archives.

Stanford History Education Group - The Reading Like a Historian curriculum engages students in historical inquiry. Each lesson revolves around a central historical question and features sets of primary documents designed for groups of students with diverse reading skills and abilities.

Teaching History - Teachinghistory.org is designed to help K–12 history teachers access resources and materials to improve U.S. history education in the classroom.

EdTechTeacher - Our list of Best History Websites aims to provide quick, convenient, and reliable access to the best history-oriented resources online in a wide range of categories and has been designed to benefit history teachers and their students.

Digital History - Enhances history teaching and research through primary sources, an online textbook, extensive reference resources, and interactive materials.”

The Howard Zinn Project - Based on the lens of history highlighted in Howard Zinn’s best-selling book A People’s History of the United States, the website offers free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme, time period, and reading level.

Smithsonian Education - The Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access (SCLDA) uses all the Smithsonian offers to empower learners to explore their own interests and collaborate with others to bring ideas to life. We create models and methods that make the Smithsonian a learning laboratory for everyone.

HippoCampus.org Free, core academic web site that delivers rich multimedia content–videos, animations, and simulations–for US History and World History.

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - A nonprofit organization devoted to the improvement of history education. The Institute has developed an array of programs for schools, teachers, and students that now operate in all fifty states, including a website that features more than 60,000 unique historical documents.

Connect 2 Texas: Video Conferencing from Texas Museums (Some are free and some have fees)

Connect2Texas is a network of Texas-based educational content providers including museums, authors, and cultural, historical and scientific organizations.

These providers utilize interactive videoconferencing to deliver live educational programs and professional development to school children and educators across the country. Bring the scientists, experts, and authors directly to your students without leaving the classroom!

History Channel -thousands of videos and articles.

Newsela - is an Instructional Content Platform that supercharges reading engagement and learning in every subject. This site has news articles for grades 2-12 and each article has the ability for teachers to change the reading levels. This site also has quizzes, annotations, and writing prompts. There is also a feature to teach vocabulary in context.

360 Cities - Can't take a field trip to historic locations, find high resolution 360° panoramic images and videos.

AirPano is a project created by a team of Russian photographers focused on taking high-resolution aerial 360° photographs and 360° video. Today AirPano is the largest resource in the world -- by geographical coverage, number of aerial photographs, and artistic and technical quality of the images — featuring 360° panoramas and 360° videos of the highest quality shot from a bird's eye view.

Scholastic Magazine Subscription: Many teachers in our district are having the parents pay for their students subscription of the grade appropriate Scholastic Magazine. Each student gets their own copy and the teacher gets the supplemental materials that go along with the magazine that arrives.

Flocabulary - is a learning program for all grades that uses educational hip-hop music to engage students and increase achievement across the curriculum. Teachers at 20,000 schools use Flocabulary’s standards-based videos, instructional activities and student creativity tools to supplement instruction and develop core literacy skills. 2 week free trial