High School Teachers

Professor Meredith Lair examines a 1971 political cartoon and what it says about U.S. reaction to the My Lai Massacre …

Fair use? Public domain? Creative Commons? Find images of history that you can use to tell its story, without worrying …

Happy Presidents Day! What better place to turn to for presidential history resources than libraries dedicated to the …

The website provides valuable resources for teachers that illuminate key events in U.S. and Arkansas history.

In this video (20 min. 49 sec.), educator Silvia Tolisano narrates a comprehensive overview of Skype and its use and …

For Constitution Day, DC teacher Amy Trenkle’s 8th-grade class carved out their thoughts on the First Amendment.

Every week during the school year, Teachinghistory.org offers a new quiz. Test your history knowledge and, if you score …

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Celebrate this holiday as a day of public service.

9/11 impacted more than just the nation. This repository of oral history video and audio clips reflects the tragedy from …

Source and approach letters and diaries with historical thinking.

Teach students to explore contingency with this great lesson plan idea.

Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship between students and their textbooks.

Hypothesize, test, and acknowledge how sources form different “pictures of the past”.

When the resources readily available to you are just not comprehensive enough.

Teach students how to utilize primary sources with this game from Annenberg Media

Bring history to life and protect student identity with personalized speaking avatars.

Immerse your students in the 1770s with this online game.

Is a school an island? James Liou talks about working to integrate schools into the community, as practiced at Boston …

Students learn more about the larger than life figure of Theodore Roosevelt through sources related to the presidential …

On the website Historical Thinking Matters, a student reads aloud a speech by former Louisiana Governor Huey Long.

Discover the extent of students’ understanding of historical subjects with this tool.

Facilitate dialogue in the history classroom with this online bulletin board maker.

Glogster—a “posterboard” creator for the digital media age.

Immerse your students in the 1770s with this online game.

Network with other teachers, or encourage your students to match minds outside of the classroom.

Map the twists and turns of a process or historical narrative with this charting tool.

Students in Kristina Frank of Eagle Ridge Middle School’s class script and film their own presidential campaign ads.

Bring history to life and protect student identity with personalized speaking avatars.

Don’t be daunted by website creation—Weebly offers a user-friendly DIY interface.

Find primary sources and the tools to present them to students—in one place.

Discover new classroom possibilities with this easy-to-use video presentation tool.

Learn how to use blogs as communication channels and pedagogical tools.

What does it take to win a presidential campaign? Try it yourself with this online game from iCivics!

Combine maps and a timeline to tell the story of change over time and place with this visual tool!

Encourage students to think critically about website content by introducing evaluation criteria and rubrics.

Digitize class surveys and poll student knowledge with this tool.

Organize and share your online finds using online social pinboard services.

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

Share away on this YouTube-style site for PowerPoint, PDF, and OpenOffice projects.

Construct your own short films demonstrating historical thinking.