Elementary School Teachers

Leave your students with intellectually and emotionally significant memories of their own experiences with history.

Do you want to introduce a child to the wonders of world history? Find out how!

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

Bring history home to young students with sources they can relate to—and prompt older students to think about the …

Teaching history to English Language Learners poses special challenges owing to its conceptual density and assumed …

Advertisements have surrounded us for years. How can you interpret them? Where can you find them?

Guam is often left out of discussions of U.S. history. Remedy the situation!

Three years in the making, this project of the Tennessee State Museum outlines TN state history from pre-history to the …

A 3rd-grade teacher leads her students through analysis of child labor photographs.

Congratulations to Stacy Hoeflich, the 2011 National History Teacher of the Year!

What does the flag mean in the terms of forging a cohesive U.S. identity?

Graphic organizers can be effective scaffolds for all history students, but they can be especially helpful for students …

This Women’s History Month, remind your students that women have made history in more ways then one—by recording it, as …

Invite young students into colonial history with the stories of children from three very different families.

Analysis of photographs of Civil War artillery broadens students understanding of the American Industrial period.

Regularly assess student understanding, and revise your lesson plans to match the needs of lower level learners.

Help your elementary school students get more out of historical biographies.

Whether you use the telephone or Skype, there are a number of ways to contact modern historians.

How did people in the North feel about John Brown after his raid on Harpers Ferry?

Congratulations to Teachinghistory.org writer Jennifer Orr, winner of the 2012 Kay L. Bitter Vision Award for Excellence …

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

This creative lesson transforms language into a historic artifact and enables students to analyze how language changes …

Posterboard and rubber cement may work for some projects, but students can also avoid the mess—and incorporate …

When you just can’t get your students to care what the Founders, or anyone else, wrote.

From Chinese immigrants to the Golden Spike, explore the history of the transcontinental railroad.

Chances are, you can use blogging in your classroom. Maybe you’re convinced you have too few computers, or too many …

Maximize student creativity with these tools that let students create their own cartoons.

The socio-cultural impact of historic events or time periods and the interpretation through various forms of media.

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

If you need World War II visuals, this is an excellent place to start searching.

A 5th-grade teacher teaches historical context through roleplaying activities.

Conventional applications of Web 2.0 tools expect students to read and write confidently. First-grade teacher Jennifer …

Textbooks may be fantastic, but curriculum is even better.

Piece together history from a handful of clues with 7th-grade teacher Michael Yell’s Mystery strategy.

Think of all the celebrity advertisements you see everyday. Why pick that particular person for that particular poster?

Set up and moderate an entire elementary class’s worth of blogs at once.

What is contingency? What does it have to do with K-12 historical thinking?

Vocabulary legends, guiding questions, and teamwork are all good solutions.

The Bracero History Archive—a collaborative project of George Mason University, the Smithsonian, Brown University, and …

What can a photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 reveal? Donald A. Ritchie looks at the people captured in this …

Students are never too young for digital tools—watch first graders use VoiceThread.

In this video (14 min.), UK teacher Simon Botten looks at basics in whiteboard use, aimed at elementary-school teachers. …

Create, share, and collaborate with this free word-processing tool!

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

Does something this much fun belong in the classroom? Yes!

Liberate yourself from overhead projectors with these versatile pieces of hardware.

Online searching got you down? Try using these tips and tricks in your next search.

YouTube blocked at your school? Video uploading site Vimeo is here for you.

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

In this video, UK teacher Simon Botten demonstrates beyond-the-basics whiteboard techniques for use in history and …

YouTube is an invaluable resource—just make sure to use it properly!

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

Open up a new world between whiteboards and slides with this presentation tool.

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

Maximize student creativity with these tools that let students create their own cartoons.

Beyond Google: effective use of search engines takes careful critical thinking.

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

This video, from the Auburn Early Education Center, AL, shows examples of using digital tools, such as whiteboards, to …

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

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