Best History Sites

Current Events - current and past current events

Digital History - resources for teaching history

Erie 1 BOCES Instructional Resources Wiki - scroll down and look for the grade level pertaining to your classroom

Games and animations

General History resources - may include secondary resources

Google Historic Photo Search from LIFE - Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today.

History Resources - many resources for the history classroom to include general resources, geography, history, and economics

History web resources - list of history web resources

Immigration - interactive Ellis Island, contains audio tracks from people who came to Ellis Island

Library of Congress

Maps 

Online History list of activities - set up in alpabetical order

Pearl Harbor - interactive about Pearl Harbor, includes Flash activity about what happened at Pearl Harbor

Secondary History resources - from SMART Technologies

WWI Study Activity - matching, concentration, word search, and flashcards

 WWII Lesson.notebook- SMART Notebook lesson about WWII