Pike_teacherweb's List: HistoryIA6-9

An overview of the people and events of the Holocaust
through photographs, documents, art, music, movies, and literature.

IWitness is an online application that gives educators and students access to search, watch, and learn from more than 1,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses.

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!

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.

As the inevitability of the Revolution grew, every person in the American colonies was faced with a difficult dilemma, whether to remain loyal to the Crown, avoid taking sides, or join the fight for liberty and freedom. Their choice--tory, timid, or true blue? In this interactive site, students explore the viewpoints of various characters, learning step-by-step about the dilemmas they faced.

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.

Mission US is a multimedia project featuring free interactive adventure games set in different eras of U.S. history. The first game, Mission 1: "For Crown or Colony?," puts the player in the shoes of Nat Wheeler, a 14-year-old printer's apprentice in 1770 Boston. As Nat navigates the city and completes tasks, he encounters a spectrum of people living and working there when tensions mount before the Boston Massacre. Ultimately, the player determines Nat's fate by deciding where his loyalties lie.

Try this beautiful interactive timeline of British history.

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.

The lottery of birth is responsible for much of who we are. If you were not born in the country you were, what would your life be like? Would you be the same person? If It Were My Home is your gateway to understanding life outside your home. Use our country comparison tool to compare living conditions in your own country to those of another. Start by selecting a region to compare on the map to the right, and begin your exploration.

Can you help the Guinard family to make ends meet and get ahead in their poverty-stricken homeland, Haiti? In this sometimes tragic and always challenging simulation game, you help the parents, Jean and Marie, and their children, Patrick, Jacqueline, and Yves, make decisions about work, education, community building, personal purchases, and health care that might brighten their future.

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!

Our Courts is a web-based education project designed to teach students civics and inspire them to be active participants in our democracy. Students can participate in some interactive activities--for example, arguing both sides in a hypothetical Supreme Court case about clothing restrictions in schools.

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!

Read about the lives of 20th century presidents and explore timelines momentous events in their lives. HistoryIA6-9