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Free downloadable historic sound recordings. Some are full speeches and others are short clips such as "Houston we've had a problem" or "the Eagle has landed."

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This section of flickr teaches social studies by inviting viewers to comment or tag the Library of Congress historic photo collection. I searched for Titanic and found some very poignant images with comments by the people who had viewed the picture already. Some of the comments had been made by very knowledgable history buffs and others were personal responses to the photos. This could be a very powerful learning tool. The photos are all creative commons, so you can use them in projects without violating copyright.

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Digital library of texts and photos from Ancient Greece and Rome, all under a Creative Commons License. The texts are available online and include links out to other information.

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Recommended by Kelley Tenkley. Similar to Virtual Museum Box in that you can create a poster or movie of archived historical photos.

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Unbelievably good video with rap. The Week in Rap provides a weekly summary of current events in a hip-hop music video for teens and students. If you're bothered by the mostly American content, issue a challenge to your students to create the Canadian version. Recommended by Kelly Tenkley at iLearn Technology.

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Students can create a virtual museum box in which to collect items such as text, photos, video, and uploaded items needed to make an argument, describe a person or historical/geographical site etc. Students can also view other museum boxes and comment. For classroom use ideas, see Kelly Tenkley's Jan 06, 2009 post at iLearn Technology. This website was inspired by Thomas Clarkson who carried around a real museum box of artifacts to make a case for the abolition of slavery. Each compartment is actually a cube that expands into 6 more "sides" for storing information. Very cool.

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The teachers at Mountain City have created some great book and novel studies with online questions, printable questions that are easy to convert to Kurzweil format, and suggested activites for each chapter. Many also have links to other websites. Recommended by Maureen LaFleche at the Jan 8 2009 Breeze meeting.

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Watch great videos, listen to famous speeches, and search thousands of clips from The History Channel.

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This is a great resource for secondary students. Their motto is to make learning fun and relevant for students in the digital age. Graduate students have created these resource packages. Summary, dates, cram sheets, and expert analysis for U.S. (American) History homework.

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Learn about the Bio4Kids show on The Biography Channel. Information includes biographies, videos, games, and downloads. Recommended by Jon Mundorf.

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Advice for students on how to create a timeline for historical events.

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On this site, you can input a date and read a quick page about events that happened on that date including news headlines, songs, books, films, prices, toys, politics. Or you can create your own time capsule page selecting specific headlines, birthdays, songs, TV shows, toys, and books for the selected date.

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A selection of excellent sites which work well on interactive whiteboards in the classroom. Categories include math, language arts, science, history, biology, religious studies, geography, and art. This is a British site, so the math is in pounds and pence.

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