Additional tools for teachers


Links to Additional Tools......
*Special Programs* From the Government Technology From the media Evaluations and combating plagiarism Not for Free Professional Organizations and Professional Development Other Great Links *Downloads* updated January 24, 2009	About Me Students Employers PDE Academic Standards Share your thoughts, get ideas... visit the online community at www.wvia.org

Special Programs....

Preserve America
"Preserve America encourages and supports community efforts to discover and save history in our backyards."
http://www.preserveamerica.gov

Virginia Schools in the Great Depression
"How did the national economic crisis that began in October 1929 affect Virginians? Using primary sources from a variety of ...[primary] materials, the project provides teachers and students with an innovative approach to understanding the events, processes and conditions that defined this crucial era of American History." Great for a case study on the Great Depression
http://www.vaschools.history.vt.edu/

GSA Earthcache: Letting the Earth teach!
If you are teaching Geography or Geology, this is a really cool thing to get into with the students, provided you live near a cache. This site lists the coordinates of geologically interesting areas of the earth and provides information about how it got that way.
EARTHCACHE.ORG

Teaching Tolerance
Fight Hate and Promote Tolerance: A web Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center
This site has an unending string of resources and ideas to combat the stereotypes and generalizations about the poor and minority populations of the United States and the anger it sometimes brings.
http://www.tolerance.org/        Other areas of the site includes:
http://www.tolerance.org/teach/index.jsp   Teacher resources
http://www.tolerance.org/teach/magazine/teachingtools.jsp?p=0&is=39   Teaching tools, free learning kits
http://www.tolerance.org/teach/magazine/index.jsp Teaching Tolerance Magazine

The Choices Program
A really current, meaningful curriculum for the History teacher interested in relating their subject to present day issues and crisis.
"An educational outreach program of the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. Through its curricular resources, professional development programs, and special projects, CHOICES engages secondary level students in current and historical international issues and contributes to a renewal of civic engagement among young people in the United States."
http://www.choices.edu/index.cfm
The Choices Program U.S. History Series

Organization of American Historians
Includes information on lecture series, recent scholarship, and a great magazine for teaching historic themes such as civil rights, gender history, the Declaration of Independence and more
http://magazine.oah.org/
http://magazine.oah.org/pubs/magazine/60social/index.html
OAH Teaching Units
History, Democracy, and Citizenship: The Debate over History's Role in Teaching Citizenship and Patriotism
A report commissioned by the Executive Board of the OAH."
http://magazine.oah.org/reports/tradhist.html

Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC)
"The Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) is a consortium of state education agencies and national educational organizations dedicated to the reform of the preparation, licensing, and on-going professional development of teachers." Provides information on state standards, new research and federal programs designed to increase the effectiveness of the teaching profession.
http://www.ccsso.org/Projects/interstate_new_teacher_assessment_and_support_consortium/780.cfm
Council of Chief State School Officers home page

Thomas Jefferson Thanksgiving Festival
Experience 18th century life, including a ball with the heroes of the day - would make a great field trip if your school had the means!
http://www.jeffersonthanksgiving.org

Scholastic.com
I knew them from Junior Scholastic, a great magazine for Junior High School students and they have much more.
http://teacher.scholoastic.com

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From the Government.....

Federal Judicial Center: History of the Federal Judiciary
Judges, historic courthoused and topics for discussion
http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf

The United Nations: Cyber Schoolbus
Webquests, online games, free resources for teachers - all broken up into topics such as The Slave Trade, Human Rights, World Hunger, etc
http://www.constitutioncenter.org/education/WelcomeEducatorsandStudents/index.shtml

National Constitution Center: Student and Teacher Resources
Current events, lesson plan contests, resources for students and teachers, field trips and lots more
http://www.constitutioncenter.org/education/WelcomeEducatorsandStudents/index.shtml

The Smithsonian Institute: The National Museum of the American Indian
National Museum of the American Indian

FREE - Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
"Teaching and Learning Resources from Government Agencies" searchable by subject area and topic
FREE -- Federal Resources for Educational Excellence

Pennsylvania Department of Education
As if you didn't already know, you can get information on standards, news, job opportunities and legal questions
http://www.pde.state.pa.us/
Social Studies Standards
Assessment Assessment Anchor

United States National Park Service
An incredible website that links our national heritage and historic sites to classroom teaching.
http://www.nps.gov/learn/
National Park Service: History and Culture
A wealth of information connecting primary sources, research, history, ethnic studies and our national parks and historic places
http://www.cr.nps.gov/

National Archive and Records Administration
Right from the "horse's mouth" so to speak. Primary Sources right from the government archives. Comes with lesson plan ideas to incorporate those sources into your lessons.
http://www.archives.gov/education/

The Library of Congress Home Page
Click on the American Memory Link for great research opportunities and information. The second link goes to their American Broadside collection which is a good place to start for ideas on the early American Press.
http://www.loc.gov
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bdsds/bdsdhome.html

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Technology...........

Teacher's Domain
"Digital Media for the Classroom and Professional Development"
http://www.teachersdomain.org/collection/k12/socst.ush/
http://www.teachersdomain.org/

Top 100 Websites for Teachers
Exactly what it says - for US History and Government
http://www.assortedstuff.com/top101/?page_id=8

Teachology: The Web Portal for Educators
Very useful site, unfortunately you have to pay for the good stuff.
http://teach-nology.com/

Teachers Discovering Computers, Third Edition - Guide to Web sites
Taken from a book of mine from college, this site has lots of web site links on it to point you in the right direction for useful technology
http://www.scsite.com/tdc3/index.cfm?action=sties&chapter=2

Web Quest Portal
A wonderful starting point when trying to create a webquest for your students
http://webquest.org

Acts of Parliament: In Defense of the British
A webquest that looks at the legality of the acts of Parliament after the Revolutionary war in the context of the complaints of Loyalist refugees. It is a great example of what a webquest should be and a great idea for an assignment.
http://smith.quicktel.com/quests/british_laws.htm

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From the media........

PBS Antiques Roadshow Teachers Guide
I am not kidding - exploring artifacts to teach history. You know you love this show!
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/teachers.html

Small Planet
"Print and multimedia materials"
Small Planet

PBS video database index
We all know how good PBS is, now you can search their databases
http://videoindex.pbs.org/main/index.jsp
http://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/educators/lesson2.html
More from PBS:
Freedom: A History of US. Home PBS
PBS - New Perspectives on THE WEST

The New York Times on the Web: Learning Network
History from the New York times and includes a teachers and student network with connections to present day issues.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/index.html

CNN Student News
Similar to US News Classroom except from CNN. Current events, both U.S. and Global
http://www.cnn.com/EDUCATION/

Daryl Cagle’s Professional Cartoonists Index
Ok, this site has to be the most comprehensive archive of political cartoons from around the world. Search by artist or country or topic. Even has a teacher’s guide. A must have for any teacher toolbox.
http://www.cagle.com/

A&E Classroom
Teaching materials from the Arts and Entertainment Channel. Deals with contemporary issues and strengthening the relevance and quality of education.
http://www.aetv.com/class/teachingmaterials/index.html
http://www.aetv.com/class/index.html
http://www.aetv.com/class/teach/

The History Channel Classroom
Provides teaching material and other resources that coincide with documentaries produced by and shown on the History Channel.
http://www.history.com/classroom/

The History Channel – Save Our History
This is one of the most incredible tools out there! Regardless of the commercialism of the History Channel, the topics are interesting and the are able to reach a wide audience. With this latest venture, The History Channel has added to the enhancement of research and primary source instruction in classrooms by bringing their research processes to light. Save Our History is a unique program that combines learning with preservation and offers a free booklet of primary documents and everything you need to teach with them.
http://www.history.com/classroom/save/soh.html

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Evaluations and combating plagiarism

RubiStar Home
A source for all kinds of evaluating tools, not just rubrics
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

Rubistar 4 teachers
Template for whatever kind of rubric you need - I use this all the time!
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php?screen=CustomizeTemplate&bank_rubric_id=21&section_id=5

HistoryEd.com
Helps students evaluate the integrity and authenticity of websites and the information on them and provides a wealth of information for research
http://www.historyed.com/
http://www.historyed.com/webeval.html
http://www.historyed.com/research.html

Western Illinois University
Deals with papers and homework databases available to students, tips for combatting plagiarism in students and links to other articles pertaining to plagiarism.
http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfbhl/wiu/plagiarism.htm

Turn it in
Has some tools to check possible plagiarism and a place for peer review online. Haven't checked it out too thoroughly yet.
http://www.turnitin.com/static/home.html

VirtualSalt
Provides strategies for detecting plagiarism from students
http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm

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Not for Free.......

Problems as Possibilities: Problem-Based Learning for K-16 Education, 2nd Edition
http://shop.ascd.org/ProductDisplay.cfm?ProductID=101064

U.S. News Classroom
From U.S. News and World Report, a weekly Teachers Guide that deals with the leading political stories of the day. Unfortunately one must subscribe in order to obtain it.
http://www.usnewsclassroom.com/tg/tg_112006.html
http://www.usnewsclassroom.com/about_classroom.html

Social Studies School Service
Search for entire units by topic
http://socialstudies.com/c/@0MBh3XySwgOpQ/Pages/product.html?record@TF32156+af@ep

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Professional Organizations and Professional Development.....

Online courses (free) from teachinghistory.org:
Primary Sources Workshops in American History
America's History in the Making
The Second Wave: Immigration 1850-1920

National Council for the Social Studies.
Information about advocacy, publications, standards, and anything else associated with teaching Social Studies.
http://www.socialstudies.org/

Organization of American Historians
Multiple resources for historians and history teachers.
http://www.oah.org/teaching/index.html
http://www.oah.org

Phi Alpha Theta Home Page
National Honor Society for History Majors.
http://www.phialphatheta.org/

National Council for the Social Studies
"Social studies educators teach students the content knowledge, intellectual skills, and civic values necessary for fulfilling the duties of citizenship in a participatory democracy. The mission of National Council for the Social Studies is to provide leadership, service, and support for all social studies educators."
http://www.socialstudies.org/

ASCD For the Success of All Learners
An education advocacy and development society whose mission is to maintain “a community of educators, advocating sound policies and sharing best practices to achieve the success of each learner.”
http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/index.jsp/

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