Have Fun With History!

American History Teachers, homeschoolers, and history buffs now have an online resource full of American History streaming videos, activities, links and resources - because history is fun!

This website can make your American History class even more fun. It has history videos, activities, subjects and more.

Worl War I Rembered

Thanks to Open Culture for this amazing post!

Excellent find by Stephen Grant… You can now experience the battle lines of World War I in Second Life, thanks to The First World War Poetry Digital Archive and the Learning Technologies Group at Oxford University. WWI shocked the Western world with its landscape-changing warfare and high tech carnage. Remembrances of “The Great War” live on in some remarkable poetry and literature. And now Second Life too. Find more information on this project here.

Online History Games

Is a website with tons of free historical games, interactives and simulations on the web. Playing history aggregates info on these resources in a simple, searchable database making it easy to find, rate, and review historical games. There are currently 126 shared games.

World Digital Library

The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

The WDL makes it possible to discover, study, and enjoy cultural treasures from around the world on one site, in a variety of ways. These cultural treasures include, but are not limited to, manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, and architectural drawings.

Items on the WDL may easily be browsed by place, time, topic, type of item, and contributing institution, or can be located by an open-ended search, in several languages. Special features include interactive geographic clusters, a timeline, advanced image-viewing and interpretive capabilities. Item-level descriptions and interviews with curators about featured items provide additional information.

Google Earth Files

Shared by Richard Byrne

The following is a list of Google earth files for history and any other topic. If you are a google earth user you are going to enjoy the browsing through the lists.

• 199 Google Earth overlays
• 186 Google Earth files
• Google Earth Links You Might Have Missed
• Google Earth and Google Maps Help
• Google Earth Tours and DIY Google Earth Tours
• Google Earth and Google Maps Help

LIFE- The World in Pictures

Shared by Free Technolody for Teachers Blog!

I wrote about Googles LIFE Photo Archive before.

This time the LIFE website is now live and offering great visual resources appropriate for using them in teaching.

"There are five categories and many subcategories of images. The five main categories are News, Celebrity, Travel, Animals, and Sports." - Free Technolody for Teachers Blog

"The homepage of LIFE offers slideshows of popular photographs from each of the five photograph categories. The news slideshow offers images of current news as well as "this day in history" images. "- Free Technolody for Teachers Blog

Free Multimedia Activities for Middle School

On march 23, 2009 Eschool News website published an article about a new section on the Teacher's Domain, a library of free digital resources and fee-based professional development courses developed by Boston public television station WGBH.

According to the article,

"the new section called “Inspiring Middle School Literacy: Reading and Writing in Science and History.” These self-paced classroom activities are designed to enhance the literacy skills of struggling readers in grades 5-12. Teachers choose a science or history topic, then have students proceed through reading passages, videos, and interactive activities, using a glossary to build vocabulary and a note-taking area to submit writing assignments."

''Science topics include continental drift, transitional fossils, and behavioral adaptations for surviving winter; history topics include Mayan civilization, resisting slavery, and building the Eerie Canal. ''

Google Earth Lesson Plan Winners

Shared by FreeTechnology for Teachers Blog

This are the winners of theGoogle Ancient Rome in 3D Curriculum Competition.

Grades 9-12

• Benjamin Johnson of Hampden Academy in Hampden, Maine for his lesson, Walking in the Footsteps of the Romans
• Amy Rechtiene of Lake Norman High School in Mooreville, North Carolina for her lesson, A Tour of Rome Fit for an Emperor
• Sarah Ellery of Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, Tennessee for her lesson, Walking with the Emperors

Grade K-8

• Cheryl Davis of Acalanes Union High School District in Lafayette, California for her lesson, Roman Holiday with the Ancients
• Jennifer Wagner of Calvary School in Windomar, California and Kathy Shields of Creek View Elementary in Alpharetta, Georgia for their lesson, Archy-the-Arch
• Ingrid Gustafson and Carol Alcusky of Sarah Gibbons Middle School in Westborough, Massachusetts for their lesson, The Roman Record

Benjamin Johnson, created a video on his lesson plan:

Odyssey

Odyssey Online, is a journey to explore the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and 19th - 20th century sub-Saharan Africa. In Odyssey Online you'll find museum objects from the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, and the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas. You can make your own discoveries through cool puzzles, games, and worksheets.

Awesome Stories

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This is a teaching tool that can make a difference in using traditional textbooks.

AwesomeStories is a gathering place of primary-source information. Enjoy an interactive learning experience as you see thousands of hand-selected and relevant links to pictures, slide-shows, videos, audio-clips, artifacts, manuscripts, documents and other primary sources linked, in context, within each story. You can sign in for FREE to explore the extra features that the site offers.

Google Earth 5.0

With Google Earth 5.0, you can now travel back in time to see historical imagery, dive below the surface of the ocean and record a tour of your journeys. Download at http://earth.google.com

Search the Web through Timelines

TimeSearch is a search engine for those who are interested in history. The material you can find on TimeSearch are events of any kind, whenever they may have happened. TimeSearch already has nearly 10,000 events in its timelines.

Anciet Rome in 3D

Google Earth was the first tool I worked with in technology integration. It just gets better and better that you can explore more than 6000 3-D drawings of buildings in Ancient Rome.

If you want to review on how Google Earth works go back to my post.

Museum Box

This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others.

See here how it works

Smithonian's History Explorer

Smithsonian’s History Explorer was developed by the National Museum of American History in partnership with the Verizon Foundation to offer hundreds of free, innovative online resources for teaching and learning American history.