Academy Curricular Exchange
http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/soc/high.html
The Academy Curricular Exchange offers the viewer a tremendous number of teacher-submitted mini-lessons, lesson plans, and unit plans in the area of high school (9-12) social studies. Ranging from mini-lessons like “search & seizure laws (HS)” or “Civil War & Emancipation (HS)” to regular lessons like “U.S. History, create newspaper presentations for understanding WWI (HS)” or “Government, American Political Culture, a values debate (12)”, one would be able to find a lesson on anything they are looking for. While most of the links take you to a lesson plan contained on the same website, some of the links do direct the user to other websites, so careful consideration to where the user is being redirected should be taken. Nearly all the lesson plans are teacher submitted, and as is the case have been tested and used in the classroom already.

America on the Move
http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/
“America on the Move explores the role of transportation in American history. Visit communities wrestling with the changes that new transportation networks brought. See cities change, suburbs expand, and farms and factories become part of regional, national, and international economies. Meet people as they travel for work and pleasure, and as they move to new homes.”
For those desiring to learn more about transportation and its revolutionary effects on American society, America on the Move is the place to start. Based on an exhibition at the National Museum of American History, this website traces the evolution of transportation from the Early Republic to Modern American History. Images and historical narratives show how transportation methods influenced the size and composition of cities, businesses and commerce throughout the nation, even the types of food that Americans eat. Finally, interactive games make this website enjoyable for younger browsers, while lesson plans proffered on the site can help teachers with in class activities.

American Journeys
http://www.americanjourneys.org/index.asp
“American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.”
Funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Wisconsin State Historical Society, and National History Day, American Journeys is a website created for the purpose of providing a legion of primary documents and images about the exploration and settlement of the North American continent. With the assistance of renowned historians, this project has collected digital images and reproductions of key documents, pictures, and illustrations in American History. Moreover, the website offers teachers material concerning problematic issues that arise when teaching history (nomenclature, geography, choosing a topic, sensitive content). In the near future, American Journeys will expand this feature to include lesson plans.

American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html
"American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States..."
American Memory, in connection with the Library of Congress, offers a tremendous amount of information in the area of American history. The information, in the form of pictures, text, and audio clips, is easily located. One area of interest on this website is the "Learning Page" where one can find many lesson plans, searchable by either theme or title. Other areas of interest are a "Today in History" area, and a "Featured Collection" area; which for this month is United States Congressional Documents and Debates (1774-1873).

The American Promise
http://www.farmers.com/FarmComm/AmericanPromise/guide_main.html
“The American Promise brings the American democratic system to life, letting students experience firsthand what it's like to govern and make the decisions that bind us together as a country.”
The American Promise is a companion website to the PBS series of the same name. With a limited number of good resources in the areas of Government, U.S. History, Social Studies, and Civics, this website provides valuable resources to teachers. With the “Quick Start” feature on this website, consisting of activities prepared for immediate use in the classroom, all the visitor has to do is select the subject area from a drop down list to view pertinent sample lessons. Also found on this site is a Teaching Guide of the nine acts of the American Promise (in PDF format) with activity components from each act.

Awesome Library
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/history.html
“Awesome Library organizes the Web with 26,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education”
This portal site offers links to hundreds of useful history websites and lesson plans. The links are divided thematically and cover an excellent range of American history. Within each category, the links are divided into Books, Discussions, Lesson Plans, Lists, Materials, Multimedia, Papers, Periodicals, Projects, Purchase Resources, Research, Web Library Sponsors, Sub-topics and Worksheets. Each thematic category offers a selection of these resources and most of them contain a short annotation of what the linked site is. Although it does require a bit of navigating, this portal site is an amazing resource. If the browser puts a little time into looking around, it will definitely pay off in finding lesson plan materials, information and ideas. (BR)

Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu
“This Web site was designed and developed to support the teaching of American History in K-12 schools and colleges and is supported by the Department of History and the College of Education at the University of Houston.”
A combined project of the University of Houston, Chicago Historical Society, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, National Park Service, Department of the Interior, and Project for the Active Teaching of American History (PATH), this information source is extensive. Digital History provides its readers with a massive list of materials including, but not limited to, a digital textbook and encyclopedia; images, pictures, interactive games and activities, and political cartoons (good for research or sheer enjoyment); lesson plans; primary documents; and a guide on writing and researching history. The latter item on this list captures the interest of those acquainted with typical on-line resources. A website offering capable suggestions and guidelines on researching and writing history is a rarity. The lessons teach students and novices valuable tools such as choosing a topic, finding primary sources, locating information in journals, and utilizing archives and local institutions. Finally, Digital History contains links to other websites and organizations. Overall, this site is a useful and easily accessible source of information.

DiscoverySchool.com
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/index.html
In association with the Discovery Channel, DiscoverySchool.com brings a great collection of lesson plans to the Internet. This site has hundreds of original lesson plans “written by teachers for teachers” that can be located either using a pull-down menu, or by browsing by subject or grade. Some of the many lesson plans that can viewed and implemented are The Bill of Rights and the Supreme Court, Japanese-Americans of WWII, The Cuban Missile Crisis, The Korean War, and The Cold War and Beyond. With its great search feature and vast collection of lesson plans this site is a great asset for classroom instruction.

EdSitement: History and Social Studies
http://edsitement.neh.gov/tab_lesson.asp?subjectArea=3
"From the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities… Bring online educational resources from some of the world’s great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom…”
This website offers many valuable tools and features for the educator, with its most valuable feature being its wide array of lesson plans in the area of history. The collection is far-ranging from “We Must Not Be Enemies: Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address”, “Was There an Industrial Revolution?: Americans At Work Before the Civil War”, “Attitudes Toward Emancipation”, to “Oh, Say, Can You See What the Star-Spangled Banner Means?” As a precaution however (as with all on-line lesson plans), it would be advisable to check to links in the lesson plans themselves as sites tend to regularly change url addresses or fold altogether.

Education World
http://www.educationworld.com/a_sites/archives/history.shtml
Education World is a website that has located other good websites focusing on different areas of history such as the Civil War, Holocaust, American Revolution, United States presidents, and women in history. Other points of interest about this site are article archives where one can find teacher submitted lesson plans, and articles and tips on incorporating technology into the classroom. Also, there are subject resources like time-lines, worksheets, games, and activities for downloadable classroom use.

The Educator’s Reference Desk: Resources Guide
http://www.eduref.org
“While the U.S. Department of Education will discontinue the AskERIC service December 19th, you will still have access to the resources you've come to depend upon. Through The Educator's Reference Desk (http://www.eduref.org) you can access AskERIC's 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.”
The Educator’s Reference Desk is a teacher’s paradise for lesson plans, resource guides, and of course, access to ERIC. Lesson plans are easily accessed and contain some wonderful activities. Students should find the Indian Leather Painting and Roanoke Mystery lessons entertaining. If a teacher prefers research oriented assignments to group activities, the site provides a myriad of choices. Overall, this is an exceptional tool for research and lesson planning. It is definitely worth book marking.

Emigration and Immigration
http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/kade/unit19/unit19.html
The five lesson plans on this website (from the Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis Max Kade German-American Center) are intended for grades 7-12. They are all focused on German immigrants to the U.S. but touch on a good range of topics that are relevant to all immigrant groups; namely, the reasons for and against immigrating, immigrant success, failure and experiences in the U.S., things immigrants brought with them and even how immigration affected the country from which they left. The lesson include some, though not many, primary documents for analysis. Nevertheless, the lessons ask important questions from students and help them evaluate the complicated issues of immigration and its effects and implications for societies and individuals. Any part of these lessons would make a great introduction to the subject of U.S. immigration in the past centuries. (BR)

TheGateway.org
http://www.thegateway.org
“The Gateway to Educational MaterialsSM is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.”
TheGateway.org is a portal website for teachers looking for on-line educational materials. Provided by the U.S. Department of Education, this site links teachers with other government, non-profit, commercial, and private websites for all disciplines at all levels. The websites vary from text-oriented to interactive. The organization of TheGateway.org provides a fast, efficient means of surfing the internet for valuable and helpful materials.

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/
“Founded in 1994, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History promotes the study and love of American history. Increasingly national and international in scope, the Institute’s initiatives target audiences ranging from students to scholars to the general public.”
This website contains a wide range of useful resources for teachers, students, and history fanatics. From the digital collections, readers can access original documents, letters, literature, and artwork. The Lehrman collection spans a significant portion of American history, and the digital reproductions are of a very high quality. In addition to general information and special collections, teachers visiting the site will discover a wide variety of lesson plans. They generally include easy-to-follow outlines; an overview of the time period; primary documents; reading assignments accompanied by review questions; high quality pictures; quizzes; timelines; detailed maps; a recommended readings list; and the sources utilized while formulating the lesson plan. The daily assignments focus on instructing students in the proper use of archives, databases, primary and secondary sources, and other history resources. Moreover, the activities are group-oriented to nurture social skills and teamwork.

A History Teacher’s Bag of Tricks
http://marchand.ucdavis.edu/index.shtml
“This website brings you a collection of assignments Marchand used in his university classroom. These "Documentary Source Problems" encouraged students to become historians and use their own analytical skills to determine what happened in history. The assignments provide students with a collection of primary sources from which they can deduce the events of the past.”
Roland Marchand was a teacher at the University of California-Davis. This website includes lesson plans of Marchand’s as well as numerous other resources. The lesson plans skillfully incorporate primary documents into the classroom. The lesson plans deal with a good variety of topics and are provided for university, high school and middle school levels. The Slide Archive provides thousands and thousands of categorized images that would greatly enhance any lesson. The images cover the full range of U.S. History, culture and life. This site offers high quality information that is well organized and ready for classroom use. (BR)

Immigration: The Changing Face of America
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/immig/immigration_set1.html
“This feature presentation links educators to primary sources from the Library of Congress' online collections. These Web resources can make history come alive for students! The feature provides an introduction to the study of immigration to the United States. It is far from the complete story, and focuses only on the immigrant groups that arrived in greatest numbers during the 19th and early 20th centuries.”
As conceded by this website’s overview, it is only an introduction to U.S. immigration. Nevertheless, it is definitely worth looking at as it goes far beyond an average cursory introduction. Along the left hand side of the main page there are small images that link to different nationalities of immigrants. Within each section, the story of that group’s immigration to the United States is summarized. These presentations are enhanced by the inclusion of primary source materials from the Library of Congress (mainly images). Other Library of Congress websites with relevant information are also linked within these summaries. The historical information and explanations give an excellent picture of the reasons for, modes of and diverse groups that participated in U.S. immigration. Other features include several interactive games provided for students about the “Irish” language and Native American place names, interviews with recent U.S. immigrants, an international cookbook and a few excellent teacher lesson plans. This website is indeed an excellent introduction to U.S. immigration and offers many avenues for more in-depth investigation and interest. (BR)

The Learning Page
http://learning.loc.gov/learn
"The Learning Page is designed to help educators use the American Memory Collections to teach history and culture…”
The Learning Page, was created with the intent of helping educators with all of the many American Memory websites that have been produced on various topics. Pertaining to individual American Memory sites, one can find lesson plans, featured activities (including interactive puzzles and learning games), and guided questions. One interesting aspect to this site is that it offers advice and tips on how to construct lesson plans with primary documents and historians’ sources from the American Memory collections.

Lesson Plans and Teaching Strategies
http://www.csun.edu/%7Ehcedu013/plans.html#Lesson%20Plans
The Lesson Plans and Teaching Strategies website is another site that offers many lesson plans for the social studies teacher. With lessons ranging from “Age of Imperialism” and “Amistad Case” to “Women in World History”, one would be able to find a lesson on anything that they are looking for. There is no search function on the site so all of the lessons will take a while to look through (as they are all on one page). Nonetheless, some great lesson plans can be found on this site, so the time spent scrolling through them all is worth it.

Massachusetts Historical Society
http://www.masshist.org/welcome
“In the two centuries since the founding of the MHS, its mission has remained constant: to collect, preserve, and communicate historical information about Massachusetts and the nation to the widest possible audience.”
The Massachusetts Historical Society website surveys a wide spectrum of the state’s history. Utilizing primary documents, pictures, illustrations, maps, and narratives, this site gives browsers an introduction to the defining events of Massachusetts history, and in some cases, American History. Also, teachers can access a lesson plan on John Quincy Adams. The lesson plan is applicable for an individual or classroom setting, and the web team has provided the necessary text and images. Finally, this site deserves high marks for accessibility. Browsers should experience minimal difficulty finding what they need here.

Mr. Donn’s US History
http://members.aol.com/MrDonnHistory/American.html
Mr. Donn’s US History website was designed and is maintained by a fellow educator. The website that he has produced has by far the most lesson plans seen in one collection. The site itself requires some scrolling and searching as there is no search functionality, but the content of the site more than makes up for the extra time involved in looking for specific information. There are many subjects covered ranging from “Key Dates - American West's Expansion Timeline” and “The French and Indian War Unit” to “Teddy Roosevelt” (with a Teacher's Guide) and the “Lewis and Clark Thematic Unit.” The lesson plans located on this site are thorough in nature and include all the print materials needed to complete them, so this site is one worth taking the time to look at.

NARA: United States National Archives and Records Administration
http://www.archives.gov
"The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent federal agency that preserves our nation's history and defines us as a people by overseeing the management of all federal records..."
Admittedly, this site is somewhat confusing to navigate through, but having said that there is a good "Digital Classroom" section where one can find lesson plans for teachers to utilize in the classroom. One good aspect to this website is in its search features. The visitor can not only search textual records for information, but also microfilm; at the same time providing information on how to access and/or order the information (such as the microfilm). This site also allows access to the Archival Retrieval Catalog (ARC), a very good system for locating congressional records and digital images.

National Center for History in the Schools
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/
“The National Center for History in the Schools has published over sixty teaching units that are the fruits of collaborations between history professors and experienced teachers of both United States and World History.”
The National Center for History in the Schools website offers teachers teaching units based on primary sources taken from government documents, newspapers, literature, and other art. The lesson plans found on this site are well thought out and thorough in their coverage of the time period addressed. The only drawback to this site is that the lesson plans themselves are not free. For a small charge a teacher would be purchasing a quality lesson plan or teaching unit that has been approved by many other teachers over the years. Also on this site for download are teaching standards for teachers.

Nebraska Studies
http://www.nebraskastudies.org/
“Nebraskastudies.org offers teachers, students, and history buffs access to archival photos, documents, letter, video segments, maps and more – capturing the life and history of Nebraska from pre-1500 to the present.”
This is by far one of the best websites on Nebraska history. It not only offers some amazing resources, but it does so in a very organized and easily navigable way. The site is set up on a timeline stretching from pre-1500 to the present. Within each segment there is a timeline featuring important events in Nebraska history as well as corresponding events on the national and international scene. Each topic includes extensive historical analysis, primary documents, stories, images and audio/visual resources. The Tools section provides teachers some useful worksheets and resources on interpreting and understanding primary documents. There is also a Teacher Resources section that provides full lesson plans complete with primary documents, worksheets, student assignments and quizzes. Teachers will find here not only ideas for lesson topics, but also background information for their own understanding and more than enough resources for bringing it into the classroom. The site should definitely be examined by any teacher wanting to teach lessons on almost any topic in Nebraska history. BR

The New Americans
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/newamericans/
“Follow a diverse group of immigrants and refugees as they leave their home and families behind and learn what it means to be new Americans in the 21st century.”
Based on a PBS series, this website gives a rich and fascinating glimpse into the current events of a historic and integral part of U.S. History – immigration. One of the best ways to understand historical phenomena is to investigate their current counterparts, and immigration is a subject in which this technique works especially well. The issues, trials and problems faced by U.S. immigrants in centuries past are still faced today by the immigrants entering our country. On this website there are interactive activities, audio and video clips from the series, immigrant stories and an excellent section on immigrant culture. Most useful are the set of lesson plans found under the “For Teachers” section. The questions asked of students in these lesson plans do an excellent job of helping them relate and connect with peoples they are separated from by culture, experiences and time. Nearly all of the United States has a recent immigrant past, and these lesson plans, TV series and website can help us better understand that past.

New York Times on the Web Learning Center Lesson Plan Archive
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/archive.html
“Teachers can access a daily lesson plan for grades 6-12, written in partnership with The Bank Street College of Education in New York City. Each lesson plan and the article it references can be printed out for classroom use. Previous lessons are available in the archive and in thematic lesson plan units.”
This collection of lesson plans is searchable by keyword and easily browsed by topic. These features are particularly useful as many of the lessons plans are outside the realm of American History. The lesson plans usually involve interactive discussions, role-plays and simulations. One aspect that sets these lesson plans apart from others is the incorporation of current events into study of past. Many take historical events to explore current affairs, or vice versa. Topics range from Native American Art, to politics, to international relations, but the majority deal with modern U.S. History. This site could be used as a good resource for new ideas and perspectives on how to present U.S. history. (BR)

PBS – American Experience
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/index.html
“As television's longest-running, most-watched history series, American Experience brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that helped form this nation. American Experience Online premiered in November of 1995 and has since won accolades from viewers and critics alike. To date, American Experience Online has produced over 85 feature sites.”
This resource is valuable as a companion to the PBS American Experience programs or simply as a resource website. Be sure to check first with the season schedule to see what programs are going to be run soon on your local PBS station. The program sites are listed thematically, alphabetically, and chronologically. They can also be searched by keyword. Within each site there are primary documents, biographies and often games, video clips and other multimedia resources. There is a good selection of topics so it should be easy to find something of interest. This site would be great for students to learn about new topics and find out what events in history interest them the most. If coupled with a viewing of one of the programs, the teacher resources would prove very helpful to facilitate good classroom activities. BR

Rubistar Home
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
“RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch.”
Although not necessarily a website dedicated to history, teachers can definitely benefit from this resource. A rubric is a set of criteria that teachers use to help grade assignments and clarify the student’s responsibilities in its completion. Because history often depends on a combination of personal interpretation and documented facts, grading objectively sometimes seems almost impossible. With rubrics, this obstacle in teaching history does not seem such an impassable barrier. Rubistar has a program that helps teachers swiftly generate a rubric for his or her classroom needs. Part of the 4teachers.org website and maintained by Al Tec at the University of Kansas, this resource is accessible and user-friendly. Teachers should not have difficulties with this website. Nonetheless, the website creators also included a tutorial session for anyone unfamiliar with the program.

Smithsonian Education
http://educate.si.edu
"Smithsonian educational materials emphasize inquiry-based learning with primary sources and museum collections. We provide photographs and reproductions, guidelines for working with them, and links to other online resources…”
The Smithsonian Education website brings to the educator valuable tools in the area of teaching with museum resources. The visitor to this site can find lesson plans, in school activities, and a resource bank with websites to help the educator with the materials. The Educators Tool Kit section is a great feature to this site that allows the educator to download worksheets which serve to help students get the most out of any museum visit, and also to view ways of including the museum information into the classroom (such as Creating a Classroom Exhibit, or Creating a Classroom Museum).

Social Studies
http://www.ed.gov/free/s-social.html
“More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result of that work is the FREE web site…”
If an educator is looking for resources and lesson plans in the area of the social studies, this site would be a great place to visit. With new teaching and learning resources added monthly, this website is continuously expanding to better aid educators. This website offers Gateway to Educational Materials, “which offers a database of more than 17,000 education resources across more than 100 websites.” Some specific social studies areas include civics, history, state history, the U.S. Constitution, U.S. government, and U.S. history.

The Social Studies Education Home Page
http://ted.coe.wayne.edu/sse/index.html
“The goal of this web site is to provide a platform for the Wayne State University Social Studies Education students and faculty to reach out to the educational community at large with instructional ideas and research findings.”
Brought to you by Wayne State University, this site has a limited amount of lesson and unit plans, but a fair number of links to other resources. The links themselves are to other websites, but the other websites for the most part are credible and respected sites with many lesson plans of their own. This website includes not only lesson plans dealing with American History (focusing on Civil Rights and Native American histories), but also an “Ideas for Classroom Teachers” section which provides practical advice and information for preservice teachers as well as those already in the field of teaching.

The Social Studies Help Center
http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/index.html
“Social Studies help for the 11th grade American History and 12th grade Economics and AP Government. There are class notes, numerous Supreme Court case summaries and information on how to write a research paper inside.”
David K. Miller, a teacher of 12 years and recently promoted assistant principal, started this website six years ago to help his students with their social studies classes. Since its inception, it has grown to include information ranging from American History to AP American Government. History materials include narratives about the major issues, periods, and events, which are reinforced with a variety of primary documents. Also, students looking to supplement their class notes can find resources here, since portions of his material come in the form of outlines. Just as important, Mr. Miller offers his visitors information on writing a research paper and documenting sources. Teachers also stand to gain from this website. There is a section with sample rubrics for general assignments or thematic papers. Finally, Miller supplements his website by providing links to others.

Social Studies Sources
http://education.indiana.edu/%7Esocialst/
“This page is designed for K-12 social studies teachers and students. It also has information and topics that are useful to pre-service social studies instructors and students.”
With content areas of General History, Government/Politics, Geography/Culture, News Sources, Cultural Diversity, and U.S. History, the Social Studies Sources website offers teachers excellent lesson plans in all of the categories, but of particular interest are the lesson plans in the U.S. History section. Along with the lesson plans, this site offers links to other credible websites (like American Memory from the Library of Congress), that serve to bring primary documents into the classroom. Some of the more interesting primary document-based websites that Social Studies Sources lists on its site are the Civil War Photographs Home Page (from the American Memory collection), the History of the United States (from Mississippi State University), and Abraham Lincoln Online.

Teachers First U.S. History Lesson Plans
http://www.teachersfirst.com/ushistory/lesn-ushist.htm
“Teachers First is a collection of original content, Internet resources, and lesson plans drawn from around the world.”
This collection of lesson plans varies both in grade level and topic. There are lesson plans on Native American topics, slavery and immigration, to mention a few. The lesson plans do a good job of involving the students and getting them to think in analytical ways. Most useful are the lesson plans that include simulation activities that help view historical events and trends from new and engaging perspectives. The lesson plans come from a diverse number of sources and cover a wide range of topics and teaching methods. Unfortunately, not all of the materials listed in the lesson plans are included. Many will provide links to handouts and other resources, but many materials are not provided. Nonetheless, there is a good amount of valuable information and resources. (BR)

Teaching with Historic Places
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/
“Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) uses properties listed in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects. TwHP has created a variety of products and activities that help teachers bring historic places into the classroom.”
One of the struggles for history teachers is to help students connect with the historical events being taught. One way to make history more relevant and approachable for students is to use tangible artifacts or historic places. This website offers over 100 lesson plans that use historic places to teach broader trends. The lesson plans are complete with historical information, pictures and activities. These lesson plans can be searched by location or theme. If a particularly difficult concept needs to be taught in class, hopefully there will be a historic place lesson plan that will help illustrate and explain the topic. There is only one lesson plan from Nebraska, but many from the Great Plains. The lesson plans survey a good range of social and cultural topics and could be easily and effectively used in any U.S. history class. (BR)

USnewsclassroom.com
http://www.usnewsclassroom.com
USnewsclassroom.com has many great features for the educator. Among themy are a lesson plan library with extras such as applicable quizzes in either PDF or RTF format and comprehension questions, and featured activities such as “Political Cartoons: Do You ‘Get it’?”. This site also has a “Resources Kit” section where one can download comprehensive units to use in the classroom, with topics including “Our Evolving Government”, “Immigration”, and “Justice and the Constitution”. This site is one worth visiting.

The WebQuest Page
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/
Brought to you by the creators of the WebQuest originally designed in early 1995, Bernie Dodge and Tom March, The WebQuest Page offers viewers a chance to view WebQuest examples designed by either themselves or others that have been approved. Defined as “an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web”, a WebQuest has been praised in recent years as an effective way to teach students. Not only does this site have many WebQuest examples on a far-ranging list of topics, but it also provides research and a rationale behind the practice itself. This site is a valuable resource and is highly recommended for everyone.