History

History Matters
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
A production of the Center for New Media and History, History Matters is a fantastic online resource for history teachers and students. Contains lesson plans, syllabi, links, and exhibits.

The Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/
This superb site for American history contains primary and secondary documents, exhibits, map collections, photographs, sound recordings and motion pictures.

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
http://www.gliah.uh.edu
This site includes: a U.S. history e-textbook; over 400 annotated documents, primary sources on slavery, Mexican American and Native American history; U.S. political and social history; classroom handouts, chronologies, and glossaries. One very unique feature, the site's Ask the Hyper Historian, allows readers to pose questions to professional historians.

Best of History Web Sites
http://www.besthistorysites.net/
Best of History Web Sites lists and ranks the most outstanding history-oriented resources available online in a diverse range of categories. Sites are rated for usefulness and accuracy. Best of History Web Sites is an invaluable and time saving tool for teachers. Not to be missed!

SCORE
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
The Schools of California Online Resources for Educators (SCORE) Web site is a terrific resource for both teachers and students. The site contains reviews of education and history-related web sites, lesson plans, maps, and more.

The African-American Journey (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/
This site explores the variety and complexity of the African American experience. Multiple categories include: arts, history, politics, people, and television. In the history category you'll find plentiful information on slavery, the Harlem Renaissance, military history, the Civil Rights movement and speeches and other historical documents.

The West (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/
This Web site is a supplement to Ken Burn's documentary. Includes a timeline, glossary, biographies, a photo gallery, maps, documents, and much more.

Shaping San Francisco
http://www.shapingsf.org
This interesting site, created by Bay Area writers and historians, presents a "hidden history" of San Francisco. The site's Encyclozine presents the following topic areas: Labor, African American, Women, Ecology, Women, Transit, Gay, and Literary.

Back to top

Lesson Plans/Curriculum

Myth & Reality: The California Gold Rush and Its Legacy
http://museumca.org/goldrush/curriculum/
curr-over.html#OVERVIEW
Developed by the Oakland Museum of California, this on-line curriculum provides units for grades four, five, eight and eleven that explore one of the defining events of our country's history - the California Gold Rush. This on-line version contains lessons excerpted from the Museum's more extensive printed curriculum by the same name.

History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers
http://my.execpc.com/~dboals/boals.html
A retired high school history teacher produced this well-organized resource of links to history and education-related sites. Check out "K-12 resources" for a set of links to 215 sites for lesson plans and links.

Lesson Plans and Resources for
Social Studies Teachers
http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/
Dr. Marty Levine, Professor Emeritus of Secondary Education, California State University, Northridge (CSUN), has gathered lesson plans and resources from the Internet which social studies educators will find very worthwhile and valuable for teaching.

Back to top

Standards

http://www.cde.ca.gov/standards/
Electronic versions of the content standards adopted by the California State Board of Education.

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/standards/
National Standards for History, Economics, Civics, and Geography at this web site by the National Center for History in the Schools.

Back to top