ALA|Great
Web Sites for Kids: World History, has
21 annotated web sites about history. The sites are coded for
grade level appropriateness. Good stuff.
The Annenber/CPB
Project Exhibits Collection, is the source for the projects
professionally designed site on the Renaissance. Beautifully done
with excellent information.
Best of History
Web Sites, is an award-winning portal created for history
teachers, students, and general history enthusiasts. It features
links to K-12 history lesson plans, teacher guides, activities,
games, quizzes, and more throughout its pages. This site is an
award winner that features a section on teaching history with
technology. This site is a valuable resource for the history teacher.
Choose
a Guide, gives
you four options (peasant, knight, merchant, nun) to pick from,
and they describe what life is like in the Middle Ages for someone
of their social standing.
Colonial Williamsburg, is a very
cool little site to check out information about life in Williamsburg
in the 18th Century. Meet some of the people, go to some of the
places, see some of the things. I like this modest site, and it
has some good stuff for younger scholars creating projects or
reports on the colonial period.
Egyptology Resources,
is a page with links to many sources (journals, museums, other
web sites) related to Egyptology.
History for Kids, is a site
that covers history in Europe, Asia and Africa before 1500 AD.I
haven't had a chance to use this yet, but check it out and let
me know how it is.
History Now, is a quaterly
online magazine of American history. Lesson plans are available
here. More on this later.
History of Nations, is
a site with the history of every nation in the world. What? The
information is based on the United States State Department. I
haven't had time to check this out yet, but you should and then
let me know what you think.
K-12 History
Web Project, offers a wealth of resources for using the internet
for history research and projects. This site is a very useful
research tool.
Labyrinth,
Medieval Studies at Georgetown University. This is a web server
which includes special topics such as Arthurian Studies, National
Cultures, International Cultures, Pedagogical (Teaching for those
of us not from Georgetown) Resources and many other things. Get
over and take a look.
Medieval,
Renaissance, Reformation: Western Civilization, Act II, has
a great annotated lists of sites suitable for a wide range
of ages. A definite place to look for some resources if you
are teaching the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Medieval
Sites on the Web, has
a long list of annotated and unannotated sites about the
Middle Ages. This site is college level, but high school
students would probably be comfortable with the information
here.
Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson,
offers information on the life of Thomas Jefferson. You can follow
old TJ through a day in his life.
Mr.
Dowling - Middle Ages, has a
long list of material which he has written about history
around the world and through the ages. The content is easy
to understand. This is an impressive teacher generated site.
Good job.
National Center for History
in the Schools, gives you guidelines for teaching history.
You can find documents for U.S. History K-12, World History and
more. If you are working on curriculum development, this is a
good place to visit.
Odin's
Cast of Dreams and Legends,
is an archive
of history and historical resources. You'll find information
on the Greeks and Romans, the Middle Ages, American History and
more. Check it out.
The
Renaissance Connection from the Allentown Art Museum , is
an interactive educational website where you can
"be a patron of the arts. Design your own innovation. Investigate
Renaissance artworks in depth. Discover how past innovations inform
life today. And more, all enhanced with quirky visuals, irreverent
humor, and engaging interactivity that reveal the ways that Renaissance
life and culture resemble our own.
"
Renaissance Faire Homepage, is
the place to visit if you are one of those folks who are seriously
interested (I was when I lived in the States) in the Renaissance
Faire world. This site has all the info that you will need to
work in a faire. In fact, if you don't have a faire in your area,
check out this site and make a faire of your own. Great stuff.
The Renaissance!,
has some links to other pages about the Renaissance. This page
is written by a high school student and focuses on famous period
painters. The site includes a trivia game.
Richard II,
is produced by Brittannia Internet Magazine. You get an illustration
of Richard and a short biography. There are also links to other
sites about British history.
The Sixties Project
and Viet Nam Generation, Inc., contains an address for a discussion
list on the Sixties. You can also find links to other sites discussing
the Sixties. Read some of the book, music and film reviews relating
to the Sixties. There's a lot more here about the Sixties than
I remember.
Vintage Antique Postcard Postcards,
has antique postcards from around the world. An interesting piece
of history and good for using on reports - with permission of
course.
Women's Exhibition-Celebrating
Women's Achievements, contains biographies and related materials
highlighting the achievements of 21 women from Canada's past.
Good for Women's Studies and Canadian History.