Mansel Wells's List: HS Social Studies Featured Sites

www.teachingamericanhistory.org/podcasts - Preview

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This post is regularly updated. It gives a list of History podcasts with the accompanying thoughts about them.

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podcasts history on 2008-09-06

History podcasts, history courses that are podcast, history podcast directories and history magazines that are podcast

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This page is a podcast directory to some of the best History Podcasts available. The intentions are twofold - first to create an easy database of great history podcasts, in order to provide the best historical podcast directory, and second to create pages where different podcasts on the same topic are gathered together.

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Lessons for how to use Google Earth in Social Studies

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This is a must-see site!
Included are
- Online Textbook
- Primary Sources
* Court Cases
* Historic Newspapers
* Landmark Documents
* Social History
- Ethnic Voices
* Asian Americans
* Italian Americans
* Irish Americans
- For Teachers
* Explorations
* Classroom Handouts
* Learning Modules
* Lesson Plans
* Resources Guides
- Active Learning
* Conduct Inquires
* Create Exhibits
* Do History Through ...
- Multimedia
* E-lectures
* Film Trailers
* Flash Movies
* Games Database
* Historical Music
- Interactive Timeline
- Visual history
* A House Divided
* America's Reconstruction
- Virtual Exhibitions
- Special Topics
* Current Controversies
* Ethnic america
* Film & History
* Historiography
* Private Life
* Science & technology
- History Reference Room
* Biographies
* Book Talks
* Chronologies
* Encyclopedia
* Glossaries
* History Profession
* Images
* Maps
* Museums & Archives
* Music
* Speeches
* Websites
* Writing Guides

www.digitalhistory.uh.edu - Preview

on 2009-02-09 and saved by 350 people

Journey back in time and around the globe! This expanding collection of video segments, activities and lesson plans from public television and its partners brings alive selected topics in U.S. and world history

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on 2009-01-22 and saved by 9 people

Videos that relive moments in American history

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on 2009-02-09

The History Lab™ is an online template where teachers can build primary-sourse based lessons and activities for use by their students. Teachers can store their lessons in the History Lab database and retrieve or modify them at any time.


The History Lab™ is free for use by all K-12 teachers and university professors who believe in the educational power of primary sources -- the raw materials of history -- and are seeking an effective, pedagogically sound way to incorporate them into their classes.

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on 2008-09-17 and saved by 13 people

Historical Image Collection
These images are in th public domain, however some restrictions may apply to their use.
Please visit www.archives.gov for more information.

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on 2008-09-16 and saved by 11 people

a set of interdisciplinary social studies lesson plans that utilize a set of historic photos of American children taken between 1900 and 1920.

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on 2008-09-16

This interactive online exhibit is a complement to an exhibit at the National Archives. It allows visitors to explore extraordinary photographs and primary documents from the collections of the National Archives as they learn from firsthand accounts of historical events

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on 2008-09-16

HistoryWired offers a virtual tour of a large collection of objects from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

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on 2008-09-16

A free online computer game from Cable in the Classroom lets students experience the pressure cooker of a presidential campaign, requiring players to manage campaign money, lobby interest groups, and make gut-wrenching decisions when scandal threatens their bid for the White House. First created during the 2004 campaign season, “eLECTIONS” was refined and reintroduced this year. Players can run for president as a Democrat, Republican, or third-party candidate and can choose their platform issues, ranging from taxes to national defense to education. Each player moves through a game board that includes pitfalls such as small-scale family or campaign scandals. As the 2008 presidential race heats up this summer and fall, the site’s creators say eLECTIONS could be a valuable tool to help students understand the events driving the campaign. “eLECTIONS is an excellent resource for teachers and students who are trying to understand the events and decisions that shape voter contests,” said Joanne Whe

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on 2008-09-15

On this page, you can share your experiences and opinions about the new curriculum materials, ACT, ANALYZE, ACT: A BLUEPRINT FOR 21st CENTURY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, developed by PBS Teachers and the Media Education Lab. Your feedback and reflections on the lesson plans, videos and interactive quiz will help us improve our curriculum.

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politics on 2008-09-04

Take the Let's Get Political Quiz to learn about the various components that make up our political personalities and to measure your own style of civic engagement.

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Discover the Stories of New Americans
The New Americans Web site offers an educational adventure for students in grades 7–12. The site supplements the PBS documentary series, which explores the immigrant experience through personal stories. Interactive sections of the site allow students to explore the immigration experience through a timeline, maps and activities in tracking family history and examining the effect of immigration on the nation. Eleven lesson plans involve students in activities such as analyzing factual data or conducting oral histories of first- or second-generation immigrants. For workplaces, schools and community organizations that would like to use shorter stories from The New Americans to increase understanding of recent immigrants, Active Voice and Kartemquin Films offer three brief, themed Video/DVD Modules and Discussion Guides for a nominal fee.

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