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1. National Park Service Maps
   http://www.nps.gov/akso/ParkWise/Students/Maps/maps.htm
   
   
2. History and Politics Out Loud
   http://www.hpol.org/
   
   
3. Geography Lessons and Activities, K-12
   http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/education/ideas.html
   
   
4. Lesson Plans and Resources for Social Studies Teachers, K-12
   http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/
   Includes several hundred social studies lesson plans, online activities, teaching suggestions for current events lessons, and additional resource materials.
   
   
5. Louisiana History 101, 5-12
   http://www.louisiana101.com/
   Various Louisiana lesson plans and activities
   
   
6. Using Primary Sources in the Classroom
   http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/primary.html
   This site helps teachers enhance their social studies curriculum by providing suggestions for using authentic artifacts, documents, photographs, and manuscripts from the Library of Congress and additional sources.
   
   
7. AFRO-American Almanac
   http://toptags.com/aama/
   The AFRO-American Almanac ® is an on-line presentation of the African in America. A historical perspective of a nation, its people, and its cultural evolution. From the beginning of the slave trade through the Civil Rights movement, to the present. Information that will give you a better understanding of the problems we face today as a nation.
   
   
8. American Treasures of the Library of Congress
   http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/
   
   
9. American West
   http://americanwest.com/
   Featuring: Westward Expansion, Western Trails, America's Freedom Documents, Cowboys, Indians, Native Americans, Pioneers, Trappers, Scouts, Gunslingers, Outlaws, Gun battles, Ghost Towns, Gold & Silver Mining, Saloons, Dodge City, Tombstone, O.K. Corral, Virginia City, Doc Holliday, Kit Carson, Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickock, Davy Crocket, Daniel Boone, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Buffalo Bill, Sitting Bull, Roy Rogers, Western Theme Parks, Museums and Exhibitions, the Prairie, Buffalo, Horses, Rodeos, Stage Coaches, Frontier Railroads, River Steam Boats, and anything of interest or of significance west of the Mississippi River.   
   
   
10. Americas Story
    http://americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi
    Presented by the Library of Congress
    
    
11. Amistad Case
    http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/amistad_case/amistad_case.html
    Presented by the National Archives & Records Administration
    
    
12. Ancient Egypt Discovery Case, 1-12
    http://www.rom.on.ca/egypt/case/
    This site provides teachers and students with tools to explore the world of the pyramids.
    
    
13. Anthropology on the Internet
    http://www.sil.si.edu/SILPublications/Anthropology%2DK12/
    A product of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, this site is an annotated listing of hot links to selected sites with information about the field of anthropology for teachers and young people.
    
    
14. Archiving Early America, 1-8
    http://earlyamerica.com/
    This site focuses on the late 18^th to early 19^th centuries in the United States.
    
    
15. Guide to U.S. Government for Kids, K-12
    http://bensguide.gpo.gov/
    This site explores the branches of government, U.S. Constitution, how laws are made, and citizenship.
    
    
16. Biographical Dictionary
    http://www.s9.com/biography/
    This dictionary covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day.
    
    
17. Black History
    http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/AfroAm.html
    This site provides a wide variety of Internet-based resources that individual students or whole classes can use.
    
    
18. Congressional E-Mail Directory
    http://www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html
    Email addresses of U.S. Senators and Representatives
    
    
19. CongressLink
    http://congresslink.org/
    
    
20. Donnor Online
    http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/donner/index.html
    The plight of the Donner Party remains one of the most poignant episodes in the history of westward expansion during the 19th Century. "Donner Online" is a type of Web-based activity in which you learn about a topic by collecting information, images, and insights from the Internet, and then you "paste" them into a multimedia Scrapbook (a HyperStudio stack or a Web page) to share your learning with others.
    
    
21. Egyptian Hieroglyphs
    http://greatscott.com/hiero/
    This site explains the Egyptian phonograms closest to the English alphabet, and helps students translate between Hieroglyphs and English.
    
    
22. Ellis Island’s Wall of Honor
    http://ellisisland.org/
    Students can search to see if their family name is inscribed on the American Immigrant Wall of Honor.
    
    
23. Exploring China: A Multimedia Scrapbook Activity, 6-12
    http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/scrapbook.html
    This site allows students to view links for pictures, text, maps, facts, quotes, or controversies that capture their exploration of China.
    
    
24. Eyewitness: History through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It
    http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/
    Your ringside seat to history - from the Ancient World to the present - history through the eyes of those who lived it.
    
    
25. Famous American Trials, 9-12
    http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm
    
    
26. Firstgov for Kids
    http://kids.gov/
    This site provides elementary and secondary teachers with links to Federal kids’ sites along with kids’ sites from other organizations all grouped by subject.
    
    
27. Flight to Freedom, 9-12
    http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:9780/projects/flighttofreedom/intro.shtml
    This site allows “players” to experience slavery through the eyes of those who lived it.
    
    
28. Go West Across America with Lewis and Clark, 6-12
    http://www.nationalgeographic.com/west/
    This site allows students to join the Lewis and Clark expedition.
    
    
29. Greatest Places Online
    http://www.greatestplaces.org/
    This site takes students on an interactive educational journey to seven of the most geographically dynamic location on Earth: Amazon, Greenland, Iguazu, Madagascar, Namib, Okavango, and Tibet.
    
    
30. Historical Treasure Chests, 6-12
    http://k12science.org/curriculum/treasure/
    Primary sources such as letters, diaries, photographs, maps and artifacts provide students with authentic materials from the past.  By looking closely for details, students can draw conclusions about the items and formulate their own hypotheses about the time period(s) during which they were created.
    
    
31. History and Politics Out Loud, 6-12
    http://hpol.org/
    Middle and High School students can hear some of the voices of American History
    
    
32. History Channel.com
    http://historychannel.com
    Offers classroom resources and activities which supplement the History Channel productions.
    
    
33. Holocaust Survivors, 9-12
    http://holocaustsurvivors.org/
    This site allows students to read the stores of holocaust survivors, hear them speak, look at their family photographs, consult the site’s encyclopedia, and much more.
    
    
34. Maps.com Online World Atlas, 6-12
    http://www.maps.com/
    This site covers seven continents, 12 regions, 190 countries, and 50 U.S. states, including maps, flags, and statistics.
    
    
35. Middle Ages: What Was It Really Like to Live in the Middle Ages?, 6-12
    http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/
    Students can find information about religion, homes, clothing, health, arts and entertainment, town life, and related resources.
    
    
36. United States House of Representatives
    http://www.house.gov/
    
    
37. United States Senate
    http://www.senate.gov/
    
    
38. Vietnam: Yesterday and Today
    http://servercc.oakton.edu/~wittman/
    This site provides a chronology of the war and materials for study and teaching.
    
    
39. Women in World History Curriculum
    http://womeninworldhistory.com/
    This unique site is full of information and resources to help you learn about women’s history in a global, non- U.S., context. Here teachers, students, parents, history buffs, and the interested public can find information on the following topics.
    
    
40. World Almanac for Kids Online, 1-6
    http://worldalmanacforkids.com/
    This is a companion site for the print version of The World Almanac for Kids.
    
41. World War I: Trenches on the Web
    http://worldwar1.com/
    This site features information on people, places, and events that led to WWI.
    
    
42. World War II Commemoration
    http://gi.grolier.com/wwii/
    This site features the story of WWII, biographies and articles, air combat films, photographs, a WWII history test, and WWII links.
    
    
43. Colonial Williamsburg, 5-12
    http://history.org/history/teaching/index.cfm
    This site features the life and times of colonial America.
    
    
44. George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens
    http://www.mountvernon.org/
    
    
45. Smithsonian National Museum of American History, 4-12
    http://americanhistory.si.edu/
    
    
46. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 9-12
    http://www.ushmm.org/
    
    
47. The White House
    http://www.whitehouse.gov
    http://whitehouse.gov/kids/index.html