History Project
- created by a history professor in an attempt to provide teachers
with easy-to-use resources in helping teaching world history
for incoming college students.
Educational Web Adventures - online adventures that challenge students and stimulate learning in the content areas.
The Archaeology Channel - ( K - 12 ) - contains a huge number of links to resources for teachers. At the Teacher Resources section, choose from Activities, Exhibits, Interactive, Lesson Plans, Newsletter, Organizations, Periodicals, Programs, Texts and Printables, Web sites, Workshops, or Bibliography.
The History Place - must-book-mark site for all history and social studies teachers.
History/Social Studies Web Resources - site contains thousands of links for K - 12 history teachers in 32 categories.
BC
Archives site - great site for learning provincial history.
Russian History - this site has over 50 topics ranging from a comprehensive history to a Cyrillic alphabet.
Exploring Ancient World Cultures - provides online course supplements, primary texts, and histories for teachers and students of the Ancient World.
Resources for Education - Archeological resources from A - Z.
Horace's villa Project, Licenza, Italy - This site offers information about Horace's Villa and the excavations undertaken there from 1997 to 2001.
Pyramids: The Inside Story - Have you ever dreamed of exploring the pyramids of Egypt? If so, enter here, wander through the chambers and passageways of the Great Pyramid, and learn about the pharaohs for whom these monumental tombs were built.
Ancient Egypt - (Grades K - 12), it is a stunningly beautiful and fabulous informative Web site created by the British Museum in London.
Treasures of the Sunken City - Welcome to the companion Web site for the NOVA program, "Treasures of the Sunken City," scheduled to be rebroadcast on Tuesday, July 8, 2003. This program chronicles the underwater discovery of the fabled Pharos lighthouse, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, just offshore from the modern city of Alexandria in Egypt.
Neandertal News - visit this Web site to find out more about Neandertal bones discoveries, complete with map.
Early Humans: Projects and Internet Resources - learn more about the culture and lifestyle of late Stone Age hunter-gathers in Britain and northwest Europe through pictures and stories.
Guide to Internet Resources for Studying Human Evolution - Early Humans : Projects and Internet Resources.
Charles Darwin, 1809 - 1882 - visit this site for the complete text of three popular Darwin works, The Descent of Man, On the Origin of Species and the Voyage of the Beagle.
Fossil Hominids - here you'll find lots of material to support the theory of human evolution, including links to articles about hominid species and fossils.
The History Place Homework Help - This site is well organized and easy to navigate. It includes five steps to write a better history paper and offers content-driven links rather than links simply listed by name.
HistoryWired - History junkies could spend hours exploring the "backstage tour" of over 450 objects sitting in storage at the National Museum of American History.
History Lab - ( K - 12 ) - presented by the Washington State Historical Society and offers a number of fun online, historically based activities.
Mayflower Web Pages - ( 3 - 12 ) - this site contains content for all things Mayflower related from passenger lists to journals and manifests.
Echoes of Cannelton - features local stories tied to history.
HyperHistory Online - ( 4 - 12 ) - this site contains over 2000 files cobering 3000 years of history.
Making of America ( 6 - 12 ) - created by the University of Michigan and Cornell University to put primary source documents for the antebellum period through Reconstruction, on the Web.
The Encyclopedia of World History, Ancient, Medieval, and Modern - Bartleby.com offers this collection of more than 20,000 entries ranging from prehistoric times to the year 2000.
HistoryChannel.com - Along with basic research tools such as a searchable database of articles, timelines linked to explanatory texts, and its fascinating "This Day in History" (in multiple categories) this site offers a wealth of supplemental activities and materials for classroom use.
World History Chronology Project - North Park University in Chicago, Illinois hosts the World History Chronology. The project consists of timelines developed by university instructors and hyperlinked articles written by students.
World History - This link takes you to the history section of Infoplease, a reference site that includes an encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, and almanacs as well as a homework center for students.
Yale Map Collection - Maps reveal information about both the prevailing knowledge of the world's physical characteristics at the time they were made, as well as people's perceptions of their place in that world.
World History & Geography : A Guide for High School Teachers - The goal of this Web site, funded in part by the U.S. Department of Education, is to develop a clear plan for teaching World History and Geography in high school, and then provide strategies to implement the plan in the form of a downloadable PDF file, The Student's Friend: World History & Geography.
History Links 101 - This resource site for World History classes is also maintained by a classroom teacher. It is intended to save time for other history teachers who would like to use the Internet as an instructional tool, but just don't have the time to sift through the thousands of potentially usable sites currently available.
Discovery and Exploration - The WWW Virtual Library was founded in 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee. This not-for-profit system consists of specialized guides and directories maintained by experts in various fields.
1492: An Ongoing Voyage - The Library of Congress hosts this online exhibit, which describes America before and after European contact as well as the Mediterranean world during this time in history.
The
European Voyages of Exploration - The Web site of the Applied
History Research Group of the University of Calgary is designed
for use as a comprehensive tutorial. The material presented focuses
on 15th and 16th-century Spain and Portugal, the motivations
behind explorations sponsored by these two nations, and the consequences
of colonization.
Discoverers Web - Andre Engels, a doctoral student in the Netherlands, has developed the Discoverers Web, a comprehensive collection of links to Web sites with information about explorers and exploration.
European Explorers - Mr. McDowell, a 7th grade Early American History teacher in Colorado, has developed a Web page for his history students that includes links to information about various explorers from Portugal, Spain, France, England, and the Netherlands.
Little Explorers Picture Dictionary - Designed for use in 2nd and 3rd grades, this area of the dictionary provides information about different explorers.
Who Goes There: European Exploration of the New World - The site includes an overview of the various motives behind exploration, information about individual explorers categorized by country, and several activities (i.e., crossword puzzles, word searches) students can complete using their knowledge about explorers.
Mr. Donn's World History Lesson Plans and Activities - Lin and Don Donn are classroom teachers who have developed and/or collected volumes of materials for teacher and student use. This particular link takes you to just the World History K-12 Activities and Lesson Plan portion of their site.
Internet Lesson for World History - ( 4 - 12 ) - the lessons at this site deal primarily with ancient history.
Egypt Lesson Plans - ( K - 8 ), fabulous collection of lessons about Egypt comes from Detroit-area teachers working in conjuction with the Detroit Institute of Art.
Distinguished Women of Past and Present - Including writers, educators, scientists, heads of state, politicians, civil rights crusaders, artists, entertainers and hundreds of other notable women of time, this site organizes links to biographical information available on the Web.
4,000 Years of Women in Science - Over 125 women from our scientific and technical past are profiled, including inventors, scholars, writers and mathematicians and astronomers.
Women's Suffrage - comprehensive collection of women's suffrage information.
Women's Suffrage ( timeline ) - this inclusive timeline presents the years when women were granted rights to vote and to stands for election in each country on the globe.
Women in America, 1820 - 1842 - Providing counterpoint to Tocqueville's representation of nineteenth century American women in Democracy in America, Mary Halnon's collection of primary source material from Irish, German, Scotch, English and French travelers offers a rich and varied picture of the life of American women.
Biographies of Women Mathematicians - An on-going project for students in mathematics classes at Agnes Scott College, this site features biographical essays and comments on and some photos of women mathematicians.
Reel Women Foundation - From Alica Guy-Blache, the first women film director, and Francis Marion, the world's most prolific screenwriter, to Euzhan Palcy, Hollywood's first Black female director, and Jodie Foster, successful actress now running her own production company, the Web site of Reel Women Productions, a full service video and film production firm, features seven exceptional biographical sketches of pioneering women in the cinema industry.
Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches From Around the World - Dedicated to preserving and creating access to speeches by influential contemporary women from around the world, this growing collection contains speeches from notable women in all fields of human accomplishment.
Quotations by Notable Women - Quotes from over 250 notable women throughout time. The serendipity of alphabetical arrangement creates such juxtapositions as Boedicea next to Erma Bombeck and Florence Nightingale and Anais Nin.
Duke University Special Collections Library - (Grades 9 - 12) - offers a wide variety of remarkable primary source texts, many related to women.
Women in World History Curriculum - In 1985, the U.S. Department of Education awarded a grant to develop a resource bibliography about women in World History and Global Studies for secondary school classroom use.