Pike_teacherweb's List: HistoryIA3-5

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In Spotzi, you can select statistics about population, health and disease, climate impacts, agriculture, communication, or transportation and see them illustrated on an interactive, color-coded world map. You're a few clicks away from illuminating major world challenges and accomplishments for students!

The Curriculum21 Clearinghouse provides an easily-accessible list of websites and web-based tools to help you teach. Each tool is rated by a social network of teachers. Check it out!

Well-organized and well-stocked site containing free access to documentaries on hundreds of topics.

By using these online jigsaw puzzles, students build images of the major continents.

FedEx provides a series of graphs, charts, and maps that illuminate how different parts of the world fare with regard to sustainabiity, workforce development, high-growth markets, free-trade, and other pressing challenges.

At MDG Maps, you see a map of the world. You can select a variety of different data to display on the map from the right-hand navigation. For example, you can investigate sustainability by selecting "Renewable internal freshwater" to see how each country ranks in these efforts. MDG Maps provides a fabulous display of data on income, poverty, sustainable energy.

Looking for one-page, maps that you or your students can color, annotate online, and also print? National Geographic has compiled a set of clear, informative maps with drawing tools that middle- and upper-school students can use to show what they know. Don't miss this one!

Select a subject (e.g., People > Spanish Speakers) and watch the states change size to express the number of Spanish speakers there. ShowUSA is a fantastic way to teach map-interpretation skills to young students.

Award-winning blogger Kelly Tenkely lists 28 Tools that will help history come alive.

This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others.

The BBC has prepare this easy-to-read site for primary school students about daily life in ancient Greece.

Talking History, based at the University at Albany, State University of New York, is a production, distribution, and instructional center for all forms of "aural" history. Our mission is to provide teachers, students, researchers and the general public with as broad and outstanding a collection of audio documentaries, speeches, debates, oral histories, conference sessions, commentaries, archival audio sources, and other aural history resources as is available anywhere.

Compiled by Dr. Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe, Professor of Art History at Sweet Briar College, this lists links to images of artwork from ancient history to modern times. See pictures of sculptures, paintings, pottery, and more from ancient Egypt, China, and Mesopotamia to modern Europe. It's a fabulous tour!

This wonderful site allows you to search through all resources from PBS -- video, games, and Web sites -- by choosing a subject and a grade level. Don't miss it!

Learning North Carolina's Best of the Web collection provides a searchable, annotated catalog of more than 3,000 top-quality interactive websites and also first-class lesson plans.

The British Museum compiled this Web-based exploration about gods, geography, and writing in Assyria, Babylonia, and Sumer.

Learn about the cities, rulers, masterpieces, rituals, and daily life in the ancient cities from the Mediterranean to the Indus (from the Metropolitan Museum of Art)

The University of Chicago and the Oriental Institute compiled this information about life in Mesopotamia--archaeology, daily life, religion, and writing. The Web site includes pictures of many artifacts.

Links to information about Mesopotamian daily life, pictures, maps, biographices, art, and more.