Free Graphic Editing Sofware

A PowerPoint with step by step instructions for a photo manipulation project

A free tool to create a digital story

Pronouncing Wisconsin names can be a challenge but not wtih this website

featuring the Naked Archeologist

World History for Kids

Just Awesome

Just Awesome

by Colonial Williamsburg

Media infusion article

Argument widget

through objects - BBC site

national archives

Mass Image Editor

Just Awesome!

Drepression years

Arkansas Depression Photos

Great Depression Era

What is it? It's up to you!

How Do We Know What We Know?

in Beta now but will appear soon!

Check out Adventure Activities and Skills

Click on a Chapter and then Click on the Interactives

stands “heads and shoulders” above the rest, and is the number one Best Social Studies Website for the year

Fantastic

6 items (objects from the past) led you into history

Free Poster

New site that's outta site

Plenty of Primary Sources

4000 Years you can download and use in your class

Online Databases for Social Studies (Free for 30 days)

Check out new American History section

From Great Britian: Images and Interactives

National Archives Experience

Check out the Teacher Workshops for great ideas

US History

Dafur

a collaboration between Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change!

See and Listen to folks who lived through the depression.

Dedicated to educating students and the public about the Roosevelt era and its legacy

Photos, Speeches and links

Archives of Early TV, Radio, Commericals, and Images

Audio and Images of the Decades in American History

Good Overview of the Arts during the Depression - Click the MP3 link to listen

Great example of Blogs and Podcast of the Great Depression

Listern to the popular music of this exciting age

MP3's

a Digital Storytelling pilot project using PhotoStory 3

Taken from DOE website

Click on the Depression videos

Hear from people who lived through these tough times

Video tours of places in the U.S.

A New Look at Quotes!

Interactive

The subtlety of image manipulation

Quickly produces "works cited" in 3 easy steps

A great resource for survey results.

Keep up with the Election News and lots more!

First Person Narratives

Dan Carlin will delight!

Great collection of history resources and links

Koshland Science Museum

Games and Activities

American RadioWorks eavesdrops on presidential telephone calls to hear how each man used one-on-one politics to shape history.

Appropriate for grades 5-8

Awesome

is making primary source documents and educational resources from all eras of American history available for free online.

Click on the Photos and Multimedia Tab

History Channel

Traces the complicity of Northerners in the Slave Trade

Interacive Games

Using a Blog to teach History Example

What Students Still Don't Know - Can you Pass this Quiz?

Howard Zinn's book complete online

Free until April 30th

Watch entire shows online

Watch the election commericals from 1952 +

Just Plain Awesome

Great Videos

Interactive and Awesome

From the Mass. Historical SocietyGreat look in primary source documents and the Boston Tea Party

Full American History Resource

From Civil War Period, Sioux Indians, etc

From National Archives; Primary Resource tools and Activiities

WWII

The Great Escape

BBC site full of resources

from Scholastic

includes closed-captioned video about the saga of Jewish children who were hidden from the Nazi’s

Aryans vs Jews

WWI Choose Your Own Adventure Game

Online Role Play game

from the Ball State University Collection

Free Holocaust Teaching Kit

You Tube Video

Amazing photos

Video Testimony

PBS:Frontline documentary. See the entire 60 minutes online.

Online Political Game

Like Wordle but for Political Figures

An Interactive Timeline

Discover What the World Thinks About America With Translated Foreign News Available NOWHERE Else In English.

lets you click on headlines related to environmental news, and then leads you to a summary of the story and a Google Map pinpoin

Great for Current Events around the world.

Powerful interactive map that can be used for analyzing current and past events

NY Times Opinion - Bono on Obama

Wall Street interactive chart on current job market

Great Timeline

NY Times article

PBS

Interactives

Check out the Interactives

History Channel

Chat With virtual people

Guess the Year - 1960's and 1970's

interactive game which deals with the eating habits of different countries

Awesome - Interactive

Time Slideshow

an interactive from MSNBC which shows you how long you are likely to live — depending on which area of the country you call home

Unbelieveable!

Smithsonian and Fuji Film teamed to create a fascinating interactive journey - learn about Pandas

Interesting look a Medieval Time (Viky's friend)

Free Online Games that you can play or create

Lots of Map games

Interesting online games

Tell stories or read stories from all over the world

National Geographic

Find images

Like Google Earth

Interactive Game

Upload your images and create a multimedia travel journal in minutes

K-8

Routes of famous explorers available

Wow

Play and CREATE your own Map Game

Great Flash tutorial with built in quizzes

Sahring The World's Cultural Heritage

a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations.

Time Slideshow

Awesome

Shows the Dimensions of an area where you live to an event: Oil Spill

The Children's University of Manchester

An American Epic Interactive Adventure

National Geographic

interactive map

Greece, Rome,Egypt ... Awesome

What Animal are you based on the Chinese Zodiac

The Chinese Zodiac

Choose Your Own Adventure style game from World Vision. You are the head of a Rwandan Family.

Virtual Museum of Canada

National Geographic interactives galore!

Tetris for geography!

Geography game

Like Free Rice - every correct answer you donate free cups of water

You produce sneakers in a third world country - can you be profitable?

ambitious interactive game-site designed to help students learn about the history of London from 2,000 years ago to now.

A choose your adventure type flash game where you are a child in London.

try your hand at answering the 96 questions that the Immigration Service draws from for the U.S. Citizenship exam

But more rigorous

Look at bills that are up for voting, vote on them, send your message to your reps

Games based on the Constitution and Amendments

Constitution and Its Amendments; Presidential Elections

Great lesson plan

interactive that lets users identify their opinion on several key public policy issues, and then compares those positions with t

Prezi Guide for Teachers and Students

Note: Click CANCEL until the PowerPoint opens

Great photos

Everything Virginia!

Ready Resources for Virginia SOLs

HBO resources

Interactive Games based on consumer economics, etc.

From Economic Theory to Financial Reality -From PBS Teacherline

Smithsonian -- audio capability as well as zooming text feature

Download digital repository of World Religions

BBC - Just Awesome - fantastic resource

Excellent Videos from South Africa

Excellent resources for both teachers and students

Newseek slideshow

100 videos from NBC covering Civil Rights

largest African American video oral history archive

with Glogster

Flash enabled look at Pre-slavery

Special Coverage of the Civil War's 150th Annimverary - great timeline, videos, etc.

NY Times Book Review of "The Imperial Cruise"

Create an Online Course

See her hideout in 3D

Larry Ferlazzo article

Read letter 155

Larry Cuban blog article - check out the discussion afterwards

Resource for images