I just happened upon this site by chance when I learned I may be taking over some pieces of the librarian's role next year, and I really like it. It has information for children from elementary through high school. It has videos, images, web links, information, gives the citation, you can email, print, favorite your search. Signing up gives you access to more resources and allows students to save searches and content. The home page has information that changes daily, including a word of the day that students can click on to hear the pronunciation, a video, learning game and more. Great reference tool.
From Teaching History comes these 50 core documents for you and your students to use to learn about American History. From the Declaration of Independence to the 1944 State of the Union Address and 48 others in between. If you use Wordle, or another word cloud creator, your students can find the themes running through these pieces of history.
Smithsonian's History Explorer
This site is a gold mine of information, resources and activities. You can filter your search by grade level, era, key words, resource type of cross-curricular connections. Smithsonian;a History Explorer has information for the youngest of elementary grades to the Senior in high school. With everything from books and links to interactive activities and primary sources, your History courses will come alive when you visit this site.
Discovery Education Interactive Atlas
An amazing find, this site is just what it's title states: it is an Interactive Atlas that allows students to click on an area of the world and find out information about the History, Culture, Government and the Natural World through embedded videos. This site will be a great addition to any classroom. Try to learn about a new place each week or just use it when learning about another culture or country.
What do Lady GaGa and the French Revolution have in common? Only the melody in this case but what you will find on this History Teacher's You Tube channel is a melding of historical events and pop music that will have your students singing their way through history. Check it out and who knows, maybe your students will be inspired to write their own pop history!
From animals to space, religion to writing, Wonderopolis is a fun site for daily learning of interesting facts. Everyday is a new "Wonder" that teaches background history, relevant vocabulary and related information. At the end of each day's "Wonder" is a clue to the next day's featured post. This is a great place to learn something new each day. I can imagine this as a class job to find and read the wonder during morning meeting. I can also see this as a fun segment for a video newscast from your class. So, try it and see what wonders never cease!
History Buff is an expansive and extensive collection of primary sources for students, teachers and anyone else who happens to love history. It has archived newspapers, and they recently added narrated panoramas of historical sites including Valley Forge, Independence Hall, Davy Crocketts Home and the site where the signing of the papers to end the Civil War occurred (plus many more). Thanks to @rmbyrne for this link.
Docs Teach is an amazing, free with registration, resource of primary sources, lesson ideas and ready-to-use tools to help bring history to life for your students. You can even create interactive activities that will make history classes more engaging and fun.
Make history more meaningful and put it into context with these flow charts that "help students see history as a dynamic process of causes and effects, not just a meaningless list of names and dates."
Awesome stories is a fantastic resource for history and social studies teachers and students. It is a compilation of primary resources in story context to make the history come alive. There are pictures, videos, slideshows, audio clips, documents and more on topics ranging from Sports stories like ancient Olympics to Disasters like the Holocaust and Ppompeii. This is one place in history you will certainly want to visit. Did I mention that is it FREE to subscribe to and with that subscription you will get access to ALL complete resources?!
This site is a treasure trove of facts and information on anything and everything history. I love the home page where each topic is set together like puzzle pieces so the learning helps put together the pieces of our historical puzzle! There are quotes that change with each page as well as historical facts and games. This site is a definite "must see" for history and social studies teachers and students.
This day or this week in history can be found on the website sponsored by the History Channel. There are stories and videos included. How great would it be to have a class historian whose job it would be to let everyone know what happened this day in 1927 and compare it to what "history" is being made today! A fun way to learn about the importance of what might seem like an ordinary day.
Playing history is an interactive games site for grades 3-12. There are free games that range from **Mexico Memory** to **Do I Have a Right**and many more. It's a great place to take your class to play and learn at the same time.
I honestly can't say enough about Pete's Power Point Station. It has absolutely EVERYTHING you could possibly ever need on EVERY subject you teach or holiday that comes around. It is fantastic! A note of caution: clicking on a topic will lead to more clicking. In addition to what you see on the colorful quilt-like homepage, there are 1600 additional topics. You'll want to use the alphabetized index to get where you want. Click here if you need something for**Presiden't Day** or Black History Month.