Teaching for Change provides teachers and parents with the tools to create schools where students learn to read, write and change the world.
By drawing direct connections to real world issues, Teaching for Change encourages teachers and students to question and re-think the world inside and outside their classrooms, build a more equitable, multicultural society, and become active global citizens. |
Based on the popular print books, The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in classrooms across the country. History comes alive when it is told from varying perspectives to create a comprehensive look at events that are not limited to white male perspectives.
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The Veteran's History ProjectAn initiative by the National Folklife Center to capture the memories of war veterans through interviews, memoirs, videos and photographs. It is a little hard to navigate as many files are simply records of what is available at the library of congress, but you can access much of the digital collection through their theme list or alphabetical list.
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National ArchivesThe National Archives has amazing resources for teachers and students, like DocsTeach (a program that provides topical lesson plans through primary sources), YouTube content, HistoryPin (showing where historical events occurred using GoogleMaps), iTunes U (Courses, collections, videos, podcasts, and primary sources, all available as free downloads), and document analysis worksheets to help you evaluate resources.
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Library of Congress Digital CollectionsThe Library of Congress has thousands of digital resources on American History and Culture, including a Historic Newspapers database, a Historic Sound Recordings database, and collections of videos and photographs.
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Smithsonian's History ExplorerChock full of games, artifacts, interactive resources, and lesson plans, Smithsonian's history explorer is a must visit for students and teachers alike. Know what you are looking for? Search by resource type, grade level, historical era, or cross curricular connections. Just want to explore? Click around to find hidden treasure!
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Smithsonian CollectionsSearch over 9.3 million records of museum objects, archives and library materials including more than 1.3 million online media files in the Smithsonian collections. History comes to life in the every day objects people used and in the photographs and paintings they made.
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The Civil War Home PageOne of the largest and most comprehensive collections of Civil War related material available on the Internet, including articles, primary sources, maps, images and videos.
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GeoreferenceOverlay historical and modern day maps on an interactive tool to see where historical events occurred, and compare changes over time, created by the British Library.
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Congress.govWhat to know who said what when in Congress? What the actual text of a certain bill says? Who voted for what? Use the Congressional Record to search by issue, like "Health Care", or by a congressman or time period as far back as 1995!
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