Go Social Studies Go - A Good Alternative to Social Studies Textbooks

Go Social Studies Go  is a nice site developed by Kenneth Udhe, a social studies teacher in Michigan, for his students and the world. Go Soc...

An Interactive Atlas of the Valley of the Kings

Atlas of the Valley of the Kings is an interactive atlas developed through the Theban Mapping Project . The atlas contains more than 2000 i...

Lots of Great WWI Lesson Materials from the BBC

BBC Schools offers an excellent collection of resources for helping students learn about World War I. The materials are sorted into a sectio...

Interactive History Animation - Daily Life in the Iron Age

Life in the Iron Age is a neat little series of animation from BBC History. Through the series of interactive animations students learn abo...

A Map of US Military Bases World Wide and a Crash Course in Imperialism

Empire.is features a map of more than 700 United States military bases and postings around the world. The map uses satellite imagery from G...

That Was History - A Good Series for Middle & High School Students

That Was History is a YouTube channel that I recently started following. Every week That Was History releases a video about interesting eve...

17th Century London in 3D

Google Earth's Street View, 3D imagery, and historical imagery is good for showing students what London looked like in the 20th Century ...

Explore 5,400 New Artifacts In the Google Cultural Institute

The Google Cultural Institute is one of my favorite sites for students in history, geography, and art courses. The online exhibitions in th...

North Korea Explained in Four Minutes

This afternoon I spent some time jumping from one interesting and educational YouTube video to the next. Many of those videos will be appear...

A Timeline of Flight and Other Resources for Learning About Aviation

CNET's Road Trip 2013 stopped in Dayton, Ohio today. Today's stop focused on the Wright brothers. One of the resources shared by CN...

180 Years of The Spectator Viewable Online

The U.K. publication The Spectator recently announced that you can now browse through 180 years of their archives online . The Spectator Arc...

A Short Course on the Origins of Writing

Hieroglyphics? Sanskrit? What are the origins of written language? Some answers to that last question are presented in the TED Ed lesson Who...

Explore 20th Century World History Declassified

The Wilson Center Digital Archive recently published a new set of 73 collections of declassified historical documents. The documents contai...

Mapping History - Historical Patterns Animated

Some of my favorite social studies lesson plans included having students use maps to analyze data and identify patterns in history. Over the...

A Free Dictionary of Historical Terms, People, and Events

History Today offers a nice resource for quickly looking up definitions of terms frequently used in history texts, mini-biographies, and sho...

Timelines.tv - Video Timelines for History Students

Timelines.tv is a nice little resource for history teachers to bookmark and share with their students. On Timelines.tv you can find six tim...

More Than 100 New Topics in Go Social Studies Go

Go Social Studies Go is a great resource that I initially reviewed about eighteen months ago. This afternoon I received an update about it ...

From Cave Paintings to the Internet - A History of Media

Jeremy Norman's From Cave Paintings to the Internet is a great collection of images and information about media and communication throu...

Explore the Dead Sea Scrolls Online

This morning the Official Google Blog had a post about the new imagery of the Dead Sea Scrolls that they have helped to put online for the ...

European Exploration - A Game for Learning About The Age of Discovery

Last week Glenn Wiebe published a list of iPad apps for history teachers. One item in that list that was new to me was European Exploration...