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History IS relevant! Discover 25 ideas for actively engaging your students in history.
Grade level lesson plans for adding art to education
Teaching resources on Japan
Lesson plan to study American Girl books on Addy, escaped slave during Civil War
Free historical costume patterns for 18 inch American Girl dolls
Description of a co-op lesson plan on Felicity (American Revolution)
Resources organized by world history time period
Resources for studying different areas of the world from Columbia University
Atomic Archive history, science, issues surrounding nuclear weapons
Video clip of performance of excerpt of Beowulf in the original Anglo-Saxon
Free primary source materials
How to make your own chainmail armor
A Free Access Digital Library of Illuminated & Illustrated Books
Short quiz on food customs in various countries
Free teaching guides for Joy Hakim’s History of the US from PBS
Guesthollow’s list of homeschool links
Free online high school helps; variety of subjects.
Katie’s Trunk and Changes for Felicity (looking at the American Revolution with children’s literature lesson plan)
Kidipede online information on lots of different topics (history, science, etc) for middleschool, free with ads, subscribe for 99 cents to see with no ads
Olympic games lesson plans
Archive of historic photos from the 1860s on from Life magazine
Online free AP courses from Monterey Institute for Technology and Education---calculus (AB and BC), US history, US government, physics (B and C), environmental science
Free Learning Resources from Bringing Up Learners
National History Day Contest
NationStates is a free nation simulation game. Build a nation and run it according to your own warped political ideals. Create a Utopian paradise for society's less fortunate or a totalitarian corporate police state. Care for your people or deliberately oppress them. Join the World Assembly or remain a rogue state. It's up to you.
Scale drawing of the structure of the New York Underground
Today’s front pages from various states and countries
PASS curricula on a wide variety of topics from the state of Florida, originally designed for high school exceptional students, but make good material for younger kids without special needs as well due to presentation of the concepts in simpler language.
“Parallel Alternative Strategies for Students (PASS) volumes are unique, supplemental materials written to help students with various learning needs achieve success in the classroom. The student volumes are presented in an easy-to-understand format for students seeking a standard diploma. The information is written by the Curriculum Improvement Project team in a manner that offers more understanding in less time. The PASS materials provide resources for teaching courses without changing essential content. The teacher guides give exciting teacher suggestions to stimulate student interest with thought-provoking activities. These inexpensive, ready-to-use resources may be reproduced or used as a workbook.”
Searchable history/social studies lessons and resources
Free online magazine about Arab and worldwide Muslim culture, history, etc. Includes a Young Reader’s World section that is an abridgement of articles in the regular magazine and has discussion questions, activities, etc aimed at ages 8-15
Greek and Roman lit, history, language, etc
American history site with curriculum modules
Streaming audio of history stories, some fairy tales and a couple Bible stories
White House 101 page for kids
World history for all of us curriculum from San Diego State University
World History Matters–portal to world history sites developed by the Center for History and New Media
Plimoth Plantation online learning center
Free download audio book—Jim Weiss reading “With Lee in Virginia” by G. A. Henty
