Embedded Files
Pathfinders
Pathfinders
Websites
Websites
The American Historical Association
The American Historical Association has classroom materials you can browse by resource type or topic. Some topics are more robust than others.
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History has resources you can browse by topic or time period. The site has curriculum, lesson plans, essays, videos, and online exhibitions.
Khan Academy has free online courses, lessons, and practice. They have courses on US history, world history, government and civics, and AP prep.
Our district subscribes to this platform, so use your school Google account to sign in. There is a whole section for social studies articles. Articles can be customized to a student's reading level. Each article comes with a quiz and writing prompt you can customize. Student progress can be tracked.
Smithsonian's History Explorer
Smithsonian's History Explorer has lessons, interactive media, weblinks, museum artifacts, and other resources. You can search for materials by era, grade-level, or resource type.
The Stanford History Education Group is a research and development group that comprises Stanford faculty, staff, graduate students, post-docs, and visiting scholars. The group provides free history and social studies materials for teachers and students. SHEG's current work focuses on how young people evaluate online content. SHEG has created a Civic Online Reasoning curriculum to help students develop the skills needed to navigate our current digital landscape.
In addition to its physical resources, the Vermont Historical Society provides access to a number of digital resources about Vermont history.
The CIA World Factbook provides basic information about people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
Free Online Textbooks
Free Online Textbooks
You do have to make an account to access flexbooks, but it is free and considered an OER. Once you have selected a text book you can distribute it as is to students, or customize the content to suit your needs. 2.0 textbooks are interactive and allow students to take notes. There are textbooks on US history, US government, and world history. (OER)
Databases and Encyclopedias
Databases and Encyclopedias
Through Vermont Online Libraries we have access to several databases on history and social studies.
For usernames and passwords, click here.
We subscribe to Britannica, an online encyclopedia.
Primary Sources
Primary Sources
Chronicling America is a collection of historical American newspapers from 1777-1963. You can also search the Newspaper Direction to find newspapers between 1690 and present.
Sponsored by the National Archives, DocsTeach provides access to primary sources, lessons, and activities. You can filter by time period, grade level, or skill.
The Digital Public Library of America has primary source sets by topic.
The Library of Congress has a Primary Source Analysis Tool for students as well as primary source sets.
Map Resources
Map Resources
This is a database we subscribe to that provides animated maps to create timelines and demonstrate historical progress.
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