History: Instructional Resources

DBQ Project provides teachers and students with the tools to read and annotate documents, take notes, organize or “bucket” evidence, and write papers in our online environment.

The CLIC Project provides support and resources to all HSS educators who are interested in fully implementing the new Framework along with strategies that are effective, relevant, and ready to implement.

The California History-Social Science Project collection of lesson and unit plans, primary source sets, and secondary resources are designed to provide teachers (and parents who homeschool) with tools to support student learning.

Teachinghistory.org is designed to help K–12 history teachers access resources and materials to improve U.S. history education in the classroom. Contains teaching strategies, resources, and research.

History Matters is designed for high school and college teachers and students, and serves as a gateway to web resources and offers other useful materials for teaching U.S. history.

Civics Renewal Network.org provides free online classroom resources for civics education. Teachers can find the best resources of these organizations, searchable by subject, grade, resource type, standards, and teaching strategy.

FTE is known nationally for its emphasis on active learning and the engaging activities and lessons that are used to teach economics. A unique feature of FTE curriculum is the demonstrations: instructors model the activities with high school students.

ProCon.org is a non-biased information sourced pros and cons of debatable issues, as well as a host of reference information relevant to those issues, thoroughly researched and compiled.

TeachingAmericanHistory.org helps teachers bring the documents and debates of America’s past into the present through document based seminars, document collections, a web based document library, and other resources.

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation's record keeper. US government records are preserved and available through this website and can be utilized for historical reference and research.

Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching.

World Digital Library makes it possible to discover, study, and enjoy cultural treasures and significant historical documents including books, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, journals, prints and photographs, sound recordings, and films.

Digital Public Library of America provides primary source collections exploring topics in history, literature, and culture developed by educators — complete with teaching guides for class use.

Online Archive of California (OAC) provides free public access to detailed descriptions of primary source collections (artwork, manuscripts, papers, historic photographs, and so on) maintained by more than 200 libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California.