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History - General

• EdSiteMent - Lesson plans for US and world history. There are also links to history websites.
• History Lesson Plans - From the History Teaching Institute of Ohio State University.
• National History Education Clearinghouse - This site has teaching and professional development resources. It is a good place to look for internet resources to use in your lessons.
• Teaching History with Technology - Lesson plans, lists of history web sites, and online history games.
• A Book in Time - This site has fiction reading lists for both United States and world history. There are also craft activities, maps, and resources for creating timelines.
• Eyewitness to History - Quotes from people who witnessed historical events. These are from all time periods and countries.
• The Women's History Museum - Many resources for teaching women's history.

United States History

• History Lesson Plans - Search for lessons by topic and grade level. From EdSitement.
• National History Education Clearinghouse - Lesson plans and other helps with history instruction.
• Smithsonian's History Explorer - Lesson plans, worksheets and web sites for all grades.
• Smithsonian Learning Lab - Smithsonian resources for teaching American history with primary resources.
• LOC for Teachers - This site is for teachers and provides lesson plans for resources and digital collections from the Library of Congress.
• Teaching With Documents - US history lesson plans from the National Archives.
• National Park Service - Curriculum based programs. If you are planning a field trip to a national park, this site helps you plan your visit and has teaching materials.
• The US Mint - the history of US coins.
• PBS Learning Media - This site has thousands of videos about US history.
• Digital History - A wealth of information about American history. Lesson plans are keyed to primary sources. There are also biographies, chronologies, maps, and much more.
• History Matters - Site for high school and college students and their teachers. It has a wealth of material for US history and history lesson plans.
• US History and Children's Literature - Teach history through children's literature. By Carol Hurst.
• 71 Digital Portals to State History - Help for students researching state history. From the Library of Congress.
• The Conquistadors - Based on the PBS TV series. This site has both information on the conquistidors and lesson plans for middle and high schools.
• The Museum of the American Revolution - Philadelphia, PA
• Civil War Curriculum - For all grades from the American Battlefield Trust.
• Gilder Lehrman Center for Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance - The Source Documents section has many primary sources such as court decisions, cartoons, letters, and maps which may useful to educators. There is also a page on the Amisted with related web links.
• HarpWeek - Teaching and background materials from Harper's Weekly magazine. This site is rich in materials from 1850 to the end of the 19th century. You will find materials on the Civil War, reconstruction, and elections from this period.
• Lesson Plan: The Civil War - Literature based unit on the civil war for upper elementary classes
• The Civil War in the Classroom - Teaching ideas for the Ken Burns video of The Civil War. This is from PBS.
• The Industrial Age: The Robber Barons and the Captains of Industry - Lesson Plan from Edsitement.
• The Age of Imperialism - Lesson plan.
• World War I Lesson Plans - From the World War I Museum in Kansas City.
• The American Experience - PBS video series.
• Multicultural History in America - Lesson plans and plans for special holidays.
• The Heritage and Culture of Puerto Ricans - with lesson plans.

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Pennsylvania History

• Explore PA History - Articles on Pennsylvania History and lesson plans for all grades. There is also a guide to visiting Pennsylvania.
• Historic Pittsburgh - Digital archive of materials provided by the University of Pittsburgh.
• Philly History - An online archive of thousands of Philadelphia pictures from 1860 and later.
• Bemjamin Franklin - There is a teacher's guide to this PBS web site on Franklin.
• Independence Hall - There is a teacher's guide at this web site.
• The History of the Liberty Bell - This site is by the National Science Foundation.
• Philadelphia History Timeline
• The State Museum of Pennsylvania - Online exhibits and links to other PA historical sites.
• Native American Tribes of Pennsylvania

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World History

• National History Education Clearinghouse - Lesson plans and other helps with history instuction.
• The Student's Friend History and Geography - This site offers a free alternative textbook for world history along with teaching suggestions for High School Social Studies.
• Teaching the Middle East - Lesson plans on the culture and history of the Middle East from the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
• The Roman Empire in the First Century - From PBS. There are lesson plans for middle and high school students.
• Asia for Educators - This is a site by Columbia University.
• A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese History - Resources are arranged by subject, and there is a timeline and maps. There are also lesson plans in pdf format.
• Archaeology Magazine - Keep up with news in archaeology.

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