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Exceptional
Internet Resource, Hotlists and Webquests
- Created by the Missouri Instructional Networked Teaching
Strategy Project.
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eThemes is an extensive database of
content-rich, age-appropriate
- resources organized around specific
themes. These resources are created by
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educators to use in their classroom. Over 750 themes,
designed with a
- wealth of embedded electronic resources. Click on
the Resource Index. Includes geography, history, literature, science, math
and other topics. Excellent.
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http://www.emints.org/ethemes/
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Sample: World
War I
- These sites cover the events of
World War I (1914-1918). Read eye witness accounts and view
photographs and maps. Other topics include the assassination
of Austrian Archduke Ferdinand, trench warfare, Choctaw Code
Talkers, President Woodrow Wilson, war propaganda, Treaty of
Versailles, the Lusitania, and the Zimmerman telegram.
Includes biographies, letters, images, posters, video, and
audio clips.
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Learn Out Loud
- A very comprehensive and
timely site which is defined as a one stop destination
for audio and video learning. Browse over 10,000
educational audio books, MP3 downloads, podcasts and DVD
videos. For our purposes, visit History, Social
Sciences, Politics, Educational & Professional.
- Under History there are many
free significant speeches in Global and United States
History
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http://www.learnoutloud.com/Home
- Center For History
and New Media
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CHNM combines cutting edge
digital media with the latest and best historical scholarship to promote an
inclusive and democratic understanding of the past as well as a broad
historical literacy. Access to a variety of exciting Projects, Tools,
Resources and News related to history.
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http://chnm.gmu.edu/
Here are just a few of the items
available:
History
News Network
This web-based magazine
features articles by historians of all political
persuasions. The site places current events in historical
perspective. Edited by Rick Shenkman, HNN is regularly read
by tens of thousands of historians and people interested in
the intersection of the past and the present.
Exploring US History
Online teaching
modules for a U.S. history survey course covering the 18th,
19th, and 20th centuries, including topics on indentured
servitude, runaway slaves, antebellum popular culture, and
advertisements in modern magazines.
World History Matters
This portal to world
history on the web offers direct access to two
projects—World History Sources and Women in World
History—that provide resources to help world history
teachers and students locate, analyze, and learn from
primary sources and further their understanding of the
complex nature of world history, especially issues of
cultural contact and globalization. Use the search engine
from the portal to search both sites at the same time or
visit and each site separately.
THE ANNENBERG VIDEO SERIES
A Biography of America at
http://learner.org/resources/series123.html#
is an exceptional video instructional series for high
school and college students produced by WGBH Boston in
cooperation with the Library of Congress and the National
Archives and Records Administration. These thirty minute
lectures incorporate first person narratives, photographs,
film footage and documents related to various historical time
periods (Twenty-six lectures listed below) .
You can view Annenberg/CPB programs
of your choice online with a broadband connection whenever you
see this icon. 
There
is no charge for this service.
Simply select a
program and go to the individual program description
listing and click on the icon. Free sign up required for
first-time users. To hear the sound and view video, you
should have
Windows Media Player, DSL, a cable modem, or a LAN
connection to a T1 line or greater, and have Javascript
enabled. For more information, please visit our
broadband FAQ.
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New World Encounters * Industrial
Supremacy
·
English
Settlement * The
New City
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Growth and
Empire * The
West
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The Coming of
Independence * Capital and Labor
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A New System of Government * TR and
Wilson
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Westward Expansion *
A Vital Progressivism
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The Rise of Capitalism
* The Twenties
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The Reform Impulse
* FDR and the Depression
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Slavery
*World War II
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The Coming of the Civil War *The
Fifties
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The Civil
War *The
Sixties
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Reconstruction
*Contemporary History
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America at Its Centennial *The
Redemptive Imagination
Additional Series
Democracy in America,
a video course for high school civics teachers covers topics
of civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions recommended by
The Civics Framework for the National Assessment of
Educational Progress developed by the U.S. Department of
Education. Also appropriate for high school and college
students as an introductory or concluding lecture. The 15
half-hour video programs, hosted by national television
correspondent Renée Poussaint, and related print and Web site
materials provide inservice and preservice teachers with both
cognitive and experiential learning in civics education.
http://learner.org/resources/series173.html#
Bridging World
History
is a multimedia course for secondary school and college
teachers (Also
appropriate for high school and college students as an
introductory or concluding lecture)
that looks at global patterns through time — seeing history as
an integrated whole. Topics are studied in a general
chronological order, but each is examined through a thematic
lens, showing how people and societies experience both
integration and differences. The course consists of 26 units
(half-hour video, interactive Web activities, and print
materials) that can be explored at either introductory levels
or as more advanced study. The course videos feature
interviews with leading world history textbook authors and
nationally known historians. The Web site includes an archive
of over 1000 primary source documents and artifacts, journal
articles from the Journal of World History and other
publications, and a thematic interactive activity on
interrelationships across time and place. Topics include:
http://learner.org/resources/series197.html#program_descriptions
American
Passages: A Literary Survey is a 16-part American literature course. The video programs,
print guides, and Web site place literary movements and
authors within the context of history and culture. The course
takes an expanded view of American literary movements,
bringing in a diversity of voices and tracing the continuity
among them. The materials, which are coordinated with the
Norton Anthology of American Literature, can be used as
the basis of a one or two-semester college-level course or for
teacher professional development.
http://learner.org/resources/series164.html
The Social
Studies in Action teaching practices library,
professional development guide, and companion Web site bring
to life the National Council for the Social Studies standards.
Blending content and methodology, the video library documents
24 teachers and their students in K-12 classrooms across the
country actively exploring the social studies. Lively,
provocative, and educationally sound, these lessons are
designed to inspire thoughtful conversations and reflections
on teaching practices in the social studies.
http://learner.org/resources/series166.html