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This is the archive for the New York Times and allows you to search every edition of the acclaimed newspaper.

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This is a great resource site for WW1

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History reference education resources WW1

this blog is a very good one by a social studies teacher. I'm going to try to follow it from now on.

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This is the homepage for the History channel under the video section. Here, if in a jam, a teacher could find a quick video resource.

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Thhis site offers nearly a hundred free lessons plans for teaching History. As a resource, it's a must to have for any social studies teacher.

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This website is great because it offers history through the eyes of the people who lived it. This will be a great introduction to oral history for students and teachers anywhere.

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This website offers thousands of lesson plans and resources for history teachers.

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This database composes many first-hand accounts of veterans who survived WW2 and have decided to come forth and discuss what they experience during the horrific battles.

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This website is very useful to any Social Studies teacher as it condenses the political cartoons published in "Harper's Weekly" since before the Civil War.

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This website offers free PowerPoints on WW2 with topics that range from all over the war and would be a great resource for any teacher.

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This YouTube clip is the opening scene of "Saving Private Ryan" where the US Army lands on Omaha Beach during the Normandy Invasion. Although it is a Hollywood movie, this scene is probably the best (and students will know of it) interpretation of this horrific battle that changed history.

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This article (within a PDF) shows effective ways to incorporate the Internet and teach history. It acknowledges the fact that most students won't enjoy their text, but if yous use websites like PBS, the History Channel.com, and others you can be an effective teacher.

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This article provides an interesting argument that for years the requirements for teaching history-related subjects of social studies were too l ow and many teachers were "coaches first." This gave students teachers who weren't as interested in their subject as they should be and hurt them in the long run.

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This article shows how history is being phased out in primary schools around the world as they move towards a more test-oriented structure that looks at math, English, and occasionally science.

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History Social*Studies Teaching School education

This website is a very useful resource that breaks down the many topics you try to go over as a history teacher into various themes. It then provides lesson plans and resources to help you if you decide to incorporate them into your classroom.

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This recent blog was written by a teacher discussing how the news only discusses the tests and never brings up a solution to the problem of high-stakes testing and he feels as if it's a cycle that teachers are stuck in.

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These are the rules and curriculum goals for the North Carolina Standard Course of Study for 9th Grade World History. If you teach this course you have to follow them.

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9th Social* Studies* NC History Rules

This blog entry was written by a reporter who is noticing the trend that as schools are forced to depend more and more on tests (mainly for Language Arts and Math,) other subjects are losing critical instruction time. One of the most notable subjects hurt is social studies.

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History Social * Studies No Child Left Behind Testing US

This is a very useful blog that I just found. It may be better than the one I used for class. The entry I really liked was how he said he was going to incorporate Google Earth and Maps into his future Geography lessons.

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