Teaching Materials

Following are recommended sites:

EDSITEment
"The Best of the Humanities on the Web from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Verizon Foundation. This educational partnership brings online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom."

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: A Moravian Settlement in Colonial America
"The National Park Service's Teaching with Historic Places Lesson Plans"

American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning
"...aims to revitalize interest in history by challenging the traditional ways that people learn about the past."

History Matters
"Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History
survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to Web resources
and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents
and threaded disucssions on teaching U.S. history."

American Memory Learning Page
"This web site was created to assist educators as they use the American Memory web site to teach about United States history and culture. The site provides tips and tricks for using the American Memory collections, as well as frameworks, activities, and lessons that provide context for their use. It will be useful to life-long learners of all ages. "

National Records and Archives
"...contains reproducible copies of primary documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States, teaching activities correlated to the National History Standards and National Standards for Civics and Government, and cross-curricular connections. "

Updated: 4 May 2006