Browse Past Blog Posts
Anthony Pellegrino's Classroom Simulations: Begin with Paris
Re-enact the Paris Peace Conference with your students, and let them [...] »
Joe Jelen on the New York Public Library Digital Gallery
This digitized photographs contained in this collection can be incorporated [...] »
Diana Laufenberg on Teaching History Thematically
Teaching chronologically is not always effective. Check out these tips to [...] »
The Conspirator in the Classroom
With the new film, The Conspirator, out in theaters, here are a few [...] »
Anthony Pellegrino's Into the Weeds: Harnessing the Power of Music to Teach Social Studies
Present the context first, or later? Teaching with music can be valuable [...] »
Amy Trenkle on Interactive Whiteboards
New technology in the classroom means new techniques and challenges. Eighth- [...] »
Searching for Sesquicentennial Sources
Teaching the Civil War? With the sesquicentennial kicking off, resources are [...] »
Joe Jelen on Google's Art Project
Budget cuts mean field trip cuts, right? Wrong! Check out high school [...] »
Copyright: Finding Images to Tell the Story of History
Fair use? Public domain? Creative Commons? Find images of history that you [...] »
Jennifer Orr on Making Technology Work for Primary Students: Part Two
Conventional applications of Web 2.0 tools expect students to read and write [...] »