Teaching Materials
Ask a Master Teacher
Lesson Plan Gateway
Lesson Plan Reviews
State Standards
Teaching Guides
Digital Classroom
Ask a Digital Historian
Tech for Teachers
Beyond the Chalkboard
History Content
Ask a Historian
Beyond the Textbook
History Content Gateway
History in Multimedia
Museums and Historic Sites
National Resources
Quiz
Website Reviews
Issues and Research
Report on the State of History Education
Research Briefs
Roundtables
Best Practices
Examples of Historical Thinking
Teaching in Action
Teaching with Textbooks
Using Primary Sources
TAH Projects
Lessons Learned
Project Directors Conference
Project Spotlight
TAH Projects
About
Staff
Partners
Technical Working Group
Research Advisors
Teacher Representatives
Privacy
Quiz Rules
Blog
Outreach
Teaching History.org logo and contact info

Digital Classroom

Does something this much fun belong in the classroom? Wordle, a free, online tool, is definitely fun to play with, but it's also a learning tool for visualizing and analyzing text. And it's adaptable to learning objectives for all elementary school grades. FIND OUT MORE »

Read and Learn

Tech for Teachers

Digital classroom tools

ZooBurst

snapshot of a ZooBurst project in the site's gallery page

Students of all ages can create their own virtual pop-up books with ZooBurst. [...] »

Mind Mapping: Visualizing Historical Thought

Photo, All Image Mind Map. Topic: Home, January 28, 2009, jonny goldstein

Discover the extent of students' understanding of historical subjects with this [...] »

Document Cameras

Photo, explaining w/ document camera, January 4, 2004, roswellsgirl, Flickr

Liberate yourself from overhead projectors with these versatile pieces of [...] »

Browse Tech for Teachers

Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

VoiceThread in a 1st-grade Classroom

A student using Voicethread in Jennifer Orr's classroom

Students are never too young for digital tools—watch first graders use [...] »

Whiteboards and the Youngest Children

Screencapture, Five-Year-Olds Pilot Their Own Project Learning, May 9, 2007

Watch kindergarten classes engage in project-based learning using new [...] »

Choose Your Own Adventure Videos

Video still, Project 2, The History 2.0 Classroom, creative commons

Remember Choose Your Own Adventure stories? Borrow the idea for video projects! [...] »

Browse Beyond the Chalkboard

PARTICIPATE

Ask A Digital Historian

Using the Web to Learn Research and Presentation Skills

Photo, National History Day Presentation, 2010, Jim, the Photographer, Flickr

Direct your students through the historical research process with these digital [...] »

Ask or Browse Questions
 
Content