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Regents Prep

http://regentsprep.org

Summary

This site helps students prepare for New York State Regents exams.

Commentary

Terrific for extra review practice. This site uses questions from past regents to help students get a feel for the questions they might encounter when they take the actual regents. I love this because this can be done from home without any extra effort. 5 out of 5 stars


The Democracy Project

http://pbskids.org/democracy/

Summary

Students can take a tour of government, follow the President for a day, and decide which election issues are most important to them.

Commentary

PBS has made learning about the election process fun and interactive in order to help students understand the process and what it means to them. 4 out of 5

PBS for Teachers

http://www.pbs.org/teachers

PBS offers teachers many resources as well as students. This site provides teachers with some helpful information.

Commentary

Lesson plans, ideas, maps, and diagrams are just a few of the things you can find here. I love using this site when Im trying to come up with some ideas. I used a lot of the information when I was student teaching.

Multi Genre Writing in History

http://www.learner.org/resources/series192.html

Summary

This is a write in the middle resource.A Workshop for Middle School Teachers is an eight-part professional development workshop designed to help teachers learn effective practices and strategies to use with middle school students in writing instruction.

Commentary

I was incredibly impressed when I watched the workshop. It had a ton of information I found to be useful. Writing is a difficult skill to teach and learn and should not be left to the ELA teacher only.

Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/families/

Summary

This webesite can help you find the resources you need for projects. Check out the “Main Reading Room” to search the many resources available. If you’re having trouble, “Ask a Librarian” allows you to e-mail a real person or chat online with a librarian from 2–4 p.m. Eastern Time.

Commentary

This website offers information ranging from literature to pictures to current events. Navigating through the site took some getting used to but the information that it provides is worth the search.

YouTube

www.youtube.com

Summary

This website is wonderful for viewing any TV programs on the history channel. The content is unlimited . This site allows you to view anything from thousands of years ago to today.

Commentary

Advantages is that you have a wide range of information at one convenient website, disadvantages is that since the website is so vast many schools block it because it can allow access to inappropriate material. In addition some of the material needs to be checked for accuracy as this site allows anyone to post videos.

Robert Marzano Instructional Strategies

http://www.marzanoresearch.com/research/researched_strategies.aspx

This site includes many of Robert Marzanos researched methods and instructional strategies. I have listed a few of the ideas below just to give you an idea about what you might find on his site.

Advance Organizers: Providing students with a preview of new content More data available

Building vocabulary: Using a complete six-step process to teach vocabulary that includes teacher explanation, student explanation, student graphic or pictographic representation, review using comparison activities, student discussion of vocabulary terms, and use of games. More data available

Complex cognitive tasks: Working on complex tasks such as investigation, problem solving, decision making, and experimental inquiry

Cooperative learning: Students working together in small groups

Cues and questions: Using hints and questions to activate prior knowledge and deepen student understanding

Scholastic for Teachers

http://www.teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/instructor/social1.htm

Summary

Another great teacher resource providing ideas and lesson plans. Includes printables and student activities and many other helpful resources.

Commentary

A wonderful site that includes the benefits of using historical fiction in the classroom. Reasons to do so and the best books to use when you decide to do it.

Best History Web Sites

http://www.besthistorysites.net/

Summary

Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1200 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.

Commentary
This link provides quick access to a number of useful history sites. The web is too vast to possibly find all of the best sites on your own. Personally I have found many useful sites right here.

History Teacher

http://www.historyteacher.net/

Summary

Listed as one of the top ten history sites on the web. Over one hundred links to helpful sites covering both global history and U.S. history.

Commentary

Incredibly helpful resource for a teacher and student to have. This site includes helpful research sites for students to use when assigned a research project. Here are just a few more