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

Digital Classroom

a montage of images related to the digital classroom

Discover new digital tools for your classroom and how teachers are using them.

Vietnam Political Cartoon. The My Lai Ditch Claims Another Victim

High school teacher Joe Jelen introduces the primary source analysis strategy "zoom-in inquiry."

screenshot of a Napoleon Popplet

Brainstorm and organize ideas with this easy-to-use visual tool.

sample screen shot of a map of the US eastern seaboard

Discover a whole new world of mapping and geography with Google Maps!

Nowadays, even elementary students are very technology savvy. Why not utilize and enhance this knowledge by incorporating the latest technologies into your lesson plans? Watch this video from the Auburn Early Education Center and discover how! FIND OUT MORE »

Read and Learn

Tech for Teachers

Digital classroom tools

PrimaryWall

Screencap, Primary Wall main page closeup, 8 Nov 2011

Encourage student observations and dialogue with this virtual bulletin board [...] »

Ning

Screenshot, "Discover New Ning Networks," Ning

Network with other teachers, or encourage your students to match minds outside [...] »

Diigo

Screenshot, homepage, Diigo

Bookmark, organize, annotate, and share research and resources with Diigo. [...] »

Browse Tech for Teachers

Beyond the Chalkboard

Teachers demonstrate digital tool strategies

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! [...] »

Recording Experiences with First Graders

Keep young students focused during field trips—use cameras! [...] »

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 [...] »

Browse Beyond the Chalkboard

PARTICIPATE

Ask A Digital Historian

Wikipedia: Credible Research Source or Not?

wikipedia article

Factual accuracy isn't the main deterrent to citing Wikipedia. [...] »

Ask or Browse Questions

Outreach

Ask

Spotlight

Quick Links for

© 2010 - 2014 Created by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University with funding from the U.S. Department of Education (Contract Number ED-07-CO-0088)| READ MORE

Except where otherwise noted, the content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 3.0 License.

The content of this website does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. Department of Education nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Teachinghistory.org Outreach | Privacy Policy | Quiz Rules

Content