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  • Schools History
    History of Britain and Europe 1066-2000; features activities, homework help, and background on major events.
  • Twentieth Century in America
    A group of internet activities covering the major events of the 1900s in America.
  • Social Studies
    This page is designed for K-12 social studies teachers and students. It also has information and topics that are useful to pre-service social studies instructors and students. The World Wide Web offers almost unlimited opportunities for social studies education and we hope that this page will benefit both the novice and the experienced Web user.
  • Online Classroom
    Social studies lessons and links.
  • Repositories of Primary Sources
    A listing of over 4000 web-sites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.
  • National Center for History in the Schools US History Standards
    The standards are both online and in print form.
  • Colonial America - For Freedom and Profit
    United States History project designed for grades 6-12. It is an interactive, internet-based, cooperative group activity in which students build a colony from the ground up.
  • Dwayne Voegeli's Social Studies Teacher's Page
    A collection of resources geared toward 9-12 grade educators.
  • Adventure Learning Foundation
    Creates curricula which follow online adventure learning expeditions as they travel around the world. Includes resources for use in the K-12 classroom.
  • Histor eSearch.com
    Directory of online history research resources for students and educators.
  • National History Day
    Non-profit academic program designed to promote the study of history. Includes information on upcoming contests and participation, past winners, and recommended links to history resources.
  • AP History Online
    Provides Information of AP European and United States History, and Preparation for the AP Test. Done by a Student who got a "5" on the AP Test.
  • Social Studies Education: National Council for the Social Studies
    An information resource for social studies teachers.
  • The Vietnam War: Past and Present
    Resource site for high school teachers provides historical background and curriculum ideas.
  • Study Guide for Countdown to Millennium: An Oral History project
    This study guide serves as a supplement to the radio series, Countdown to Millennium: An Oral History project. This resource for teachers includes lesson plans, background on oral history collection, instructions for video interviews and web page construction, and links to oral history archives.
  • History Matters
    Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History courses. This site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers useful materials for teaching U.S. history.
  • Global Nomads Group
    GNG is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting international dialogue by partnering educators around the world. Includes a teacher survey and project overview.
  • Best History Websites
    A portal created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts. Sites are rated for usefulness and accuracy, that will help studies or teachers in a wide variety of topics and periods in history.
  • Digital Classroom
    To encourage teachers of students at all levels to use archival documents in the classroom, the Digital Classroom provides materials from the National Archives and methods for teaching with primary sources.
  • Our Documents
    Featuring 100 milestone documents of American history from the National Archives. Includes images of original primary source documents, lesson plans, teacher and student competitions, and educational resources.
  • The Local Historical Archives Project (LHAP)
    LHAP is a searchable database of historical images and documents, one that is largely compiled by students in grades 5-12. It is an educational project by which students create a local history resource available to anyone.
  • American Heritage Education Foundation, Inc.
    Provides free K-12 curriculum lessons by and for teachers in social studies, U. S. history/government, political science, philosophy, and economics. The curriculum educates students about America's factual, philosophical heritage.
  • Junto Society
    In-depth information and resources on historical dates and events, American documents, breaking news, political news, and other historical data.
  • civilisations
    Civilisations is an entirely new way to explore human history - a multi-dimensional picture of the world, where you're in charge of the timeline.
  • Crossroads - A K-16 American History Curriculum
    Recommended American history curriculum for kindergarten through college.
  • Y-Vote Mock Elections UK 2004 - London, Local and European Elections
    Y-Vote Mock Elections provide a chance for the younger generation to have their say in politics for the UK and Europe.
  • Dramatic History or Historical Drama?
    Article which argues that historians with dramatic skills should find ways to write plays about historical subjects rather than leaving such tasks to dramatists who mainly use historical figures to attract attention to their plays.
  • History and Social Studies
    Small directory of educational sites for the student, genealogist and family historian.
  • The Giant EHAP And AHAP Reviews
    Susanna's summary of the entire AP European and American History Curriculum.
  • Abby's Resource Page for Social Studies Teachers
    Hundreds of links to history, social studies, and education sites on the Web. Links are indexed for easy searching. Also home of the History Teachers' Education Ring.
  • Digital History
    Enhances history teaching and research through primary sources, an online textbook, extensive reference resources, and interactive materials.
  • American History from 1899 High School Textbook
    American History from 1899 perspective. Material from book has been broken down into 5 categories and any article is no more than 2 clicks away.
  • History Picture of the Day
    This site features a new historical photograph each day, with a brief description
  • AMVETS Americanism Program
    The program helps teach K-12 students about their American heritage, civics and citizenship through a series of contests where students design flags or posters and write essays, and win prizes.
  • Web Search

  • History of education - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    URL : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_education
    Main article: History of education in India ... The history of education in Japan dates back at least to the sixth century, when ...[2008/11/27]
  • SCHOOL: The Story of American Public Education
    URL : www.pbs.org/kcet/publicschool
    A companion website to the PBS documentary series, SCHOOL: The Story of American Public Education[2008/11/21]
  • History of Education in the Yahoo! Directory
    URL : dir.yahoo.com/Education/History
    Discover sites dedicated to the history of education throughout the world. ... Blackwell History of Education Museum. Collections feature artifacts, research ...[2008/11/09]
  • American Educational History Timeline
    URL : www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/educationhistorytimeline.html
    ... states in his book, Education for Freedom: A History of Lincoln University , it ... History of American Education Web Project. ...[2008/11/21]
  • History of Education in the United States
    URL : www.indiana.edu/~reading/ieo/bibs/histedus.html
    History of Education in the United States: a collection of web and database resources from the The Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication. Let us ...[2007/09/25]
  • CCH - CCE Links: History of Education
    URL : www.classical-homeschooling.org/celinks/history.html
    Links to articles and websites about the history of education in Western Civilization, from Classical Christian Homeschooling: Classical Education at Home.[2006/08/24]
  • Education - History Fair Photos 2007
    URL : lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/education.hom/history_day07/.../index.shtm
    Education Contact Information Cen-Tex History Fair History Fair Workshop LBJ For ... HISTORY FAIR. WORKSHOP. Register Online. LBJ FOR KIDS. Home Page. Civil ...[2008/12/02]
  • TCU College of Education | History of Education at TCU
    URL : www.education.tcu.edu/history.asp
    History of Education at TCU. What They're Saying. Education Board of Visitors. Title II Report ... S. Neeley Special Education Institute. Trio Programs ...[2008/11/21]
  • History of American Education
    URL : www.nd.edu/~rbarger/www7
    Includes articles, biographies, and photos organized by time period.[2008/10/31]
  • EDUCATION, HISTORY OF,
    URL : www.history.com/encyclopedia.do?articleId=208251
    Education Tools for Teachers, click here. For History Education, click here. ... oldest known systems of education in history had two characteristics in common: ...[2008/11/12]
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