HistorySocialStudiesActivities
History and Social Studies Activities
- Best of History Websites
- T. Mills Kelly. Teaching History in the Digital Age. Free online book
- Lincoln Mullen, How To Teach History in a Digital Age. ProfHacker
- Learner.org: A Biography of America: extensive history curriculum
- ActiveHistory
- Smithsonian Institute: Cultural heritage tours
- TimeLinesTV: History, Documentary, and Television: videos on history
- Blog posts about demographics of Minneapolis neighborhoods
- e-Booksdirectory: Free downloadable books for uses in schools
- Digital History
- ExpeditionLitTrips: History, literature, science: Studies people's/character's expeditions
- Wikisota: Resources for teaching social studies related to Minnesota places
- Histografica: Find historical pictures of places
- Virsona: Talk with historical figures
- Social Studies Central: lots of resources
- American History in Video
- Video: Michael Wesch: A Portal to Media Literacy: Using digital tools to teach cultural anthropology
- Michael Wesch: Netvibes class portal for his cultural anthropology course
- Wiki: Studying Societies
- Dan Cohen and Ray Rosenzweig: Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web
- Gilder Lehrman Institute: one million primary-source documents
- English Language Civics for ESL Teachers
- Anne Davis: Using blogs in social studies
- Betsy's Page: blog on teaching middle school social studies
- Mike Hetherington's 6th-grade social studies curriculum wiki
- Teachers Teaching Teachers: Creating A Living Archives of the 1900's
- A Living Archives: Students collecting of archival materials about the 1900s
- Using RSS Feeds in Social Sciences
- Meredith Aby's government class blog about the 2008 President Campaign, Jefferson High School, Bloomington, MN
- A History Teacher
- James Damico, Mark Baildon, & Gerald Campano, Integrating literacy, technology and disciplined inquiry in social studies: The development and application of a conceptual model. THEN Journal.
- Linda Smeins, Art History for Students Living with the Globalization of Visual Technology
- David Arnedale, University of Minnesota: Internet use in a history course
- History According to Bob
- Speaking of History blog: 8th grade history
- Educationanl CyberPlayGround - Telling Stories and Folktales
- World History II Propaganda Ism
- Telling Stories about Race and Slavery
- Becoming Citizen Historians
- EASE: 400 video clips of historical events for use in writing about history
Social Studies Teaching Resources