Useful Websites for APWH or regular World History Teachers
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/Controller.jpf - College Board website, log in and look around. Teacher Resources tab includes good bibliography and reviews of resources. Stuff that can be purchased is at the CB store.
• Click the menu tabs at the top of the screen for links to “Institutes and Workshops” and to “Teachers’ Resources,” which provides an invaluable annotated bibliography, containing full reviews of all types of materials, from print to multimedia.
• Under “Exam Information” see copies of the essay questions (and sample student responses) from previous examinations since 2002 and the current version of the Course Description.
http://www.thewha.org/ - Useful for information on upcoming conferences - competitions and to join H-World.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_world_history/ - access (subscription) to JWH articles, but can also read abstracts
http://worldhistoryconnected.press.uiuc.edu/
The WHA’s online journal aimed at World History teachers. Also many great articles with lesson ideas and reviews of books that would be useful in any world history classroom. Including articles on environmental history and articles aimed at teachers about skills, etc.
World History for Us All - free world history curriculum, lessons, units and panoramic PowerPoint presentations (downloadable), also has History of the World in Seven Minutes
http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/worldhistory/ - home of Bridging World History - 26 thematic units (e.g. Global Industrialization, Food, Demographics, Culture) with professors speaking about the subject. Works with United Streaming videos, or just hear the program (no visual) from web, also has selected journal articles, and more than 1,000 primary sources (documents and visuals), as well as an audio glossary for those hard-to-pronounce names and terms.
http://www.worldhistorynetwork.org/ - Many great links to web sites with lesson idea, opportunities for educators, virtual field trips, etc.
British Museum's Ancient Civilizations Website - great websites with a lot of specific information, highly visual, many themes including technology!
http://edsitement.neh.gov/ - This is mostly a catalog of relevant sites in the humanities, but it also includes some lesson plans that AP World History teachers might find useful.
http://www.neh.gov/projects/si-school.html - apply often for these fabulous chances!
John Green's Crash Course on World History
Imperial conquests in Middle East
Authentic History - US focused, visuals and audio clips of music and speeches
General
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ - many documents in the Internet History Sourcebook, from different regions and time periods
http://worldhistorymatters.org/- great history site, with searchable databases
http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/index.html - many world history sources, tips on teaching about analyzing different forms of evidence
http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/index.html - women in world history, modules and websites, and more!
www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm - primary sources from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries in law and diplomacy, as well as all legal sources originally in English.
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html - British library’s primary sources!
Maps
http://www.gisforhistory.org/ - more about US history, but has some nice primary source documents, lesson plans, interactive maps, census data, etc.
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/ - can create maps from US census data using GIS tools
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ - variety of formats of historical content
Timelines for World History - a lot of Big History stuff not useful for this course, but the last four are useful
Art
http://www.googleartproject.com/ - fabulous resource for an up close look at art!
http://www.learner.org/courses/globalart/ - From the folks that brought you Bridging World History - this series helps connect art to global themes.
http://arthistoryresources.net/ARTHLinks.html - mother load of art images, largely Western, but decent world images too
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html - great art history resource
http://worldimages.sjsu.edu/ - CSU’s IMAGE Project – 60,000 searchable global images, free for educational use.
Great for a lot of art history, also resources to buy.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm - timeline
LINKS TO ADVANCED PLACEMENT WORLD HISTORY TEACHERS' WEBSITES
Great Virtual Field Trip Resources
http://www.harappa.com/ - walk around
http://www.3dancientwonders.com/index.htm - look around
Suleymaniye Mosque - Virtual Walking Tour
World Wonders Walk Through courtesy of Google Maps Street View
Historic Italy Walk Through courtesy of Google Maps Street View
Ruins of an Ancient Shona city in present day South Africa
Zamani Project's Panorama shot of famous African sites including Lalibela, Kilwa, Great Zimbabwe, etc.
Trade and other Exchanges:
Content Specific Resources
Middle East / Southwest Asia
East Asia
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ - great source on information on East Asia
http://asiasociety.org/education/resources-schools/secondary-lesson-plans - has some great lesson plans and information on Asia.
North America
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/ - US heavy, but some world too
Latin America
Africa
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimelinetoc.htm - African timelines
Arabic contributions to Science
1001 Inventions of the Muslim World
Teaching Units on Arab Studies
Period 1 (to 600 BCE)
Period 2 (600 BCE - 600 CE)
Lost Empires on Easter Island, Rome, China, Egypt and Medieval Europe
Understanding Buddhist imagery
Period 3 (600-1450 CE)
Quipu/Khipu - project to crack the code
Mesoamerica - http://www.mesolore.org/
Period 4 (1450-1750 CE)
Period 5 (1750-1900 CE)
Duke's digital library on Haiti
Stanford's archive on the French Revolution
Imperialism from casa historia
Period 6 (1900 - present)
Council on Foreign Relations site on immigration and other issues
Other General Resources (including other disciplines)
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/millennium/ - CNN Millennium Site (while supplies last – download what you can!)
https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/lan/en/globe.html - Genographic Project’s Globe of Human history – fabulous!
http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia/Search/History%20and%20Culture - Smithsonian does history, can search for topics
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/ - National Geographic does history
Pronunciation Guide - from Voyages textbook
http://www.aasd.k12.wi.us/staff/hermansenjoel/apmuseum/project%20list.htm - APWH Museum
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/ - religions, but now being moved, archived at:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060907005952/http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/relmove/
Publications (free or not)
http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200403/ - Saudi Aramco World publications (free)
http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/index/BackIssues2000.aspx - back issues
http://www.historians.org/pubs/globals.htm - list of AHA’s publications related to World History
http://www.cie.org/modules.aspx?id=N&moduleid=27 - Council of Islamic Education teaching modules
http://www.choices.edu/index.cfm - Brown’s choices program with great info on modern conflicts (some free) and historical ones (not free).
http://spice.stanford.edu/catalog/list - Stanford’s publications
http://nchs.ucla.edu/World_units.html - National Center for History in the Schools
Markus Weiner - some publications about harder to find topics
Interact - simulations in world history, including historical trials and computer simulations
Center for Learning -publishers of online and print lessons focusing on skills (are working on APWH skills, but have some already for World History and also have APUSH and AP Euro materials
http://www.si.edu/history_and_culture/archaeology_and_ancient_cultures/ - Smithsonian does history
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/ - National Geographic does history
http://www.thehistoryteacher.org/ - The History Teacher – sometimes useful
http://socialstudies.com/ major vendor, some stuff for World History, including DBQ publication
http://socialstudies.com/c/@9CS_Vp7Tj43sQ/Pages/product.html?record@TF35698
www.history-magazine.com - more US and European, but some world too
Fun links
http://www.ilike2learn.com/ilike2learn/ - geography review
http://www.dotsphinx.com/games/topo/ - topography/geography game
http://www.bl.uk/services/learning/curriculum/trading.html - trading game
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/vikings/launch_gms_viking_quest.shtml - Vikings game
http://nobelprize.org/educational/peace/conflictmap/conflictmap.html - sometimes works and is neat
http://www.ballgame.org/main.asp?section=5 - play Mayan ball game!
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/games/ - Various games from the era.
http://www.addictinggames.com/wargames1983.html - No actual login is required.
http://mw.mcmaster.ca/home.html - Medieval women - not a lot of action
http://www.cleo.net.uk/followtheyarn/games/index.html - yarn games!
Interactive online activities for history
http://www.activehistory.co.uk/ This site may be better for 9th graders. It is an interactive site that
requires a fee, but some of their lessons are available for free.
Music Sources
http://www.putumayo.com/ - A little Starbuckish but still a good source
http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/worldmusic/view/page.basic/home
http://www.folkways.si.edu/index.html - Smithsonian Folkways recordings - individual tracks available!
Relevant Videos
Gilda Lehrman Institute of American History - Charles Mann and others
Ted Talks - Hans Rosling and the magic washing machine
Ted Talks - Hans Rosling on global population growth and others
Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 minutes - The Joy of Stats
Sponge Bob Square Pants in China
Tech Resources
http://www.noodletools.com - great resource for bibliographies and search engines
http://keepvid.com/ - means to download and save videos; will keep youtube videos on flash drive and even if they are broken, taken down, etc. those videos will not change
zamzar.com - converts documents to other formats
http://www.clockwk.com/centenniavid.htm
http://quizstar.4teachers.org This is a free online assessment tool. I put my multiple choice section of my final on here and it was great!
http://prezi.com/ - online presentation maker
todaysmeet.com. Educational twitter
www.padlet.com. Kind of twitter meets pinterest (bulletin board)
http://www.photosforclass.com. Helpful for finding creative commons images, especially for student projects.
http://www.schrockguide.net/sketchnoting.html - Kathy Schrock Guide, "Sketch Noting," a help for students who have trouble reading or do not like to read.
https://www.remind.com/ - Remind-safe way to message students and keep parents aware
Schoology like google classroom.
Side by Side app-can open two websites side by side.
https://www.pdftoword.com/v2/ - pdf to word-can then edit the new word doc. (Adobe Pro also can do this)
create.kahoot.it - has an app, somewhat like Socrative. Teachers and students like Kahoot better.
canva.com, easel.ly, piktochart.com - Infographics creating sites for students and teachers:
Flick - easy way to share documents
Poll everywhere and iclicker- real time student digital feedback.
Rewordify.com -adjusts reading text level for students, etc.- articles, short passages
neusela.com-can choose lexile level
wix.com or weebly - Make websites, (site may try to trick you into paying but do NOT, it is free.)
google sites are limiting and not as good my participants claimed; some feel weebly is better.
photostory3 - produce "digital stories" or "photo stories" will need mic and computer.
Stepmap - Students create maps.
doctopus - http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/01/try-doctopus-for-managing-google.html#.VZaGLPlViko
Zip grade- a (paid) app that generates a scantron form and grades it when you take a pic of it on your phone
eduCanon.com - you can produce videos with interactive elements such as on-screen quizzes. It will keep track of individual student performance. Great for flipping classroom.
Tube chop- allows you to cut a section out of a larger youtube video and play it as a separate video
emaze- for producing visual online presentations
iCharts - great looking charts - visualize data
Dipity - free digital timeline
StatSilk - data analysis
Timeline JS - timelines from different sources
Other infographic tools reviewed at http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/infographic-tools/
Flashcard websites
http://www.bubbabrain.com/run_game_nopoints.php
Summer opportunities for travel/Study for Teachers
http://www.koreasociety.org/korean_studies/fellowships/
http://www.neh.gov/projects/si-university.html