Elementary School Teachers

Textbooks may be fantastic, but curriculum is even better.

February and March mark deadlines for several national professional development opportunities.

On June 14th, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) released the Nation’s Report Card: U.S. History …

To engage with a source, ask, “What do I know, what do I want to know, and what have I learned?”

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

Examining changes in early American homes helps interpret the past. It reflects the transitions that occurred in that …

We history teachers who teach English language learners face a dilemma: how can we teach our students a rigorous history …

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

Anthony Pellegrino explores the history of one segregated school, and complicates his understanding of a traditional …

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

Third graders explore civil rights history in their own hometown.

Collect information from your students and your peers with Google Forms.

You can use a number of frameworks to help you understand and teach historical thinking. Teachinghistory.org’s Daisy …

This digitized photographs contained in this collection can be incorporated into lesson plans in a variety of exciting …

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

Connect with your ELL students with this bilingual Puerto Rico Encyclopedia!

Scratch the surface of Asian Pacific American history this May, and keep digging.

What can a quilt, a map, some photographs, a haversack, and a receipt tell you about the past?

Looking for a primary source website created especially for elementary teachers?

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

Explore this education- and tourism-centered website for lesson plans for teachers, as well as dozens of thematic topics …

You don’t have a smartboard, but overheard projectors aren’t quite flexible enough for you. What to do? High-school …

Rwany Sibaja recaps our presentation at the 2011 American Historical Association conference in Boston.

How do you teach cultural heroes without simplifying history? First-grade teacher Jennifer Orr takes care to make …

Looking for history right where you are. You’d be surprised how inspiring local history can be.

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

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

Help students think about where evidence for history comes from.

Use primary sources to tell stories and discover what the stories you create say about historical bias.

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

Elementary students investigate the first presidential assassination and debate whether it was avoidable.

Zotero makes gathering, annotating, organizing, and cross-referencing research simple.

Turn your students into ‘master chefs’ by using learning menus that allow differentiated instruction.

Do you use video creation as a culminating activity? Teacher Mark Smith suggests trying it at the beginning of a unit.

Considered attending a conference for professional development? Here are some suggestions on where to look and what to …

In order for students to grasp the importance of American civic republicanism, they must first understand its origins.

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

Missed our workshop at the American Historical Association in Chicago? Catch a recap here.

Teacher Eva La Mar’s third graders become historians, writers, and videographers as they explore a community site.

Introducing your students to primary sources for the first time? Watch fourth-grade teacher Marty MacKenzie guide her …

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

Bring history to life with Skype and other digital technologies.

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

Teach in a virtual classroom? Try this collaborative online whiteboard tool.

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

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

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

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

Create a lesson, worksheet, or class page, and publish it online right away.

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

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

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

Collect information from your students and your peers with Google Forms.

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

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

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

Google is great, but not always applicable to the history classroom. Discover a whole new world of academic online …

Digitize class surveys and poll student knowledge with this tool.

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

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