I found this website while doing some research for a lesson. The short video clips for U.S. History are very in depth and to the point. I have used them for gaining knowledge for myself and also as an anticipatory set or review. The website was originally created to provided free multimedia content for general high school and college classes. The lessons are thorough and engaging, and provide lots of information for discussion.
For a history teacher, this website is a bookmark must. It was created by Ms. Pojer of Horace Greeley High School in New York. According to the link on her website, it is ranked #7 on the best history websites page. If you are looking for power points, test questions, proper citing webpages, maps, lesson plans, you name it, she has it. There must be over a thousand links to everything related to social studies. Awesome!
I have learned a lot this year about teaching history and one of the most important things is that many people can learn better when they can see what they are learning. Life magazine recently put their entire collection of pictures on-line. As a history teacher, this has been great. There are pictures of everything you could imagine dating back to when photography first started to become available during the Civil War. This website has been a great resource for me as a supplement to my lessons as it gives students a visual component to what I am trying to convey to them.
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