Adventure of the American Mind
The AAM Online Education Program provides Students and Educators with a series of online lessons.
Grades: 1-12

All Hands on Deck
USS Constitution, America's most treasured ship, comes to life for your students as never before.
Grades: 1-12

American Epic
Storybooks and interactive lessons on social studies.
Grades: 1-12

American History
Colonial Williamsburg has developed several interdisciplinary lesson plans and other interactive resources for use in classrooms.
Grades: 1-12

Best of History Web Sites
Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1000 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.
Grades: 1-12

Carmo Learning
Carmo Learning offers nine world history units, ranging from Mesopotamia to World War I. Students will be reading, writing, mapping, and will become involved in art activities with fact-filled and enjoyable tasks. Each unit takes about ten class periods to complete.
Grades: 6-10

Digital History
The materials on this Website include a U.S. history textbook; over 400 annotated documents; succinct essays on the history of film, ethnicity, private life, and technology; multimedia exhibitions; and reference resources that include a database of annotated links, classroom handouts, chronologies, glossaries, an audio archive including speeches and book talks by historians, and a visual archive with hundreds of historical maps and images. The site's Ask the HyperHistorian feature allows users to pose questions to professional historians.
Grades: K - College

The Dynamic Earth
The Mineral Information Institute provides resources and lesson plans about geology and minerals.
Grades: K-12

Historical Voices
The purpose of Historical Voices is to create a significant, fully searchable online database of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century - the first large-scale repository of its kind. Historical Voices will both provide storage for these digital holdings and display public galleries that cover a variety of interests and topics.
Grades: K-12

History and Social Sciences SOLs
Resources for teaching to the Standards of Learning.
Grades: K-3

History Channel Classroom
Bring history to life in the classroom with educational resources from the experts.
Grades: K-12

Knowledge
What happened throughout the years on today's date?
Grades: 4-12

Kidipede
Learn world history. This site includes many images for those visual learners.
Grades: 4-12

Learning Adventures
Learning should be a wonderful adventure! Many parents believe that if their children are having too much fun, that they are not really learning. How sad that they do not realize that it is WHEN their children are having fun that learning IS taking place!
Grades: 4-8

Learning Through History
Each 64-page bi-monthly issue has 15+ unique articles, arts and crafts project plans, hands-on activities, study guides for historical literature, discussion questions, web links and book and video suggestions - on one historical theme per issue.
Ages: 9 - Up

The Lukeion Project
Courses and workshops are held online and supplemented with online interactions.
Grades: 6-12

Mrs. Donn's Lesson Plans & Activities
Mrs. Donn offers lesson plans and activities for history throughout the world.
Grades: K-5

NativeTech
Enjoy the games and toys section of this Native American website. Find word searches, mazes, an interactive bead design program, virtual coloring, matching games, and much more.
Grades: K-5

SCORE History/Social Science
Over 5,000 websites related to history.
Grades: 1-12

Social Studies for Kids
Kids can learn what is happening or what has happened around them while making it feel a bit more enjoyable.
Grades: 1-12

Spy Letters of the American Revolution
One the most fascinating batches of primary source documents your editor has seen! Each example has a photo of the original, its contents in readable text, the story of the message, and the method by which it was transmitted--invisible ink and secreted in a button.
Grades: 7-12

The Story of Virginia
Learn the history of Virginia when it was a colony.
Grades: 7-12

ThinkQuest
Learn about medieval castles.
Grades: 1-6

U.S. History/Civics
This 96-item test has questions, answers, and short explanations from the study materials provided to those becoming U.S. citizens. It makes a good study guide for basic civics and U.S. history.
Grades: 6-12

US History Site
The US History Site offers US History Lesson Plans, primary source documents, games, timeline, quotes and teacher resources for students and teachers.
Grades: 1-12

Virginia Pathways
Virginia Pathways is an educational video series with print and web materials, produced in association with the Virginia History Production Consortium. The series is dictated by the fourth grade Virginia History Standards of Learning.
Grades: 3-5

World History and Geography
Among other endorsements, the studentsfriend.com website has been recognized as one of the top ten history sites for teachers by the Stanford University School of Education, and it has been identified as a "hot geographic site" by the California Geographic Alliance.
Grades: 6-12

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