ThingLink
Turn an image into an interactive graphic with ThingLink!
Crop It
Use this four-step learning routine to deeply explore visual primary sources.
Crafting Digital Stories
Don’t just test students, allow them to create! Discover digital tools that help students share history knowledge.
Glogster
Glogster—a “posterboard” creator for the digital media age.
Google Earth
Bring geography into the history classroom with resources from Google Earth.
Joe Jelen on the New York Public Library Digital Gallery
This digitized photographs contained in this collection can be incorporated into lesson plans in a variety of exciting ways.
Animoto
Discover new classroom possibilities with this easy-to-use video presentation tool.
George Washington, A National Treasure
This website by the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery will help students analyze artistic works.
Media Analysis Tools
These worksheets from the Library of Congress help students analyze primary sources.
Document Analysis Worksheets
Find the National Archive’s worksheets for analyzing a variety of primary sources.
Analyzing Composition in Paintings
Incorporate art into lesson plans with this resource from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Picturing America
Analyze art in the classroom with these resources from the Picturing America initiative.
Beyond Google Searching
Google is great, but not always applicable to the history classroom. Discover a whole new world of academic online searching.
George Washington: A National Treasure
What can you learn from the Lansdowne portrait of George Washington?
Teaching with Museum Collections
National Park Service lesson plans, teaching materials, and vibrant images reveal what historical objects tell us about history.
Archive of Early American Images
Collects more than 4,000 images from books created in Europe between 1492 and 1825.
Making Sense of Documentary Photography
Textbook illustrations are often overlooked as historical evidence.
Making Sense of Advertisements
Advertisements have surrounded us for years. How can you interpret them? Where can you find them?