Book Recommendations
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Crash Course Videos
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Crash Course is one of the best ways to educate yourself, your classmates, and your family on YouTube! From courses like Astronomy to US History and Anatomy & Physiology it's got you covered with an awesome variety of AP high school curriculum topics. With various witty hosts at your service, you won't even notice you're getting smarter. |
TEDed: Videos & Lessons
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Research Dozens of Fascinating Topics Browse hundreds of TED-Ed Animations and TED Talks designed to spark your child’s curiosity. You'll also find thousands of other video-based lessons organized by age-level and subject. |
Atlas of World History Animated Map
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Watch Civilizations Grow and Collapse on an Interactive Map
This website provides an online interactive world history atlas where you can track the political boundaries of the world throughout history till 3000 BC. As soon as this website loads, it opens a world map and runs an animation that takes you through the time starting from 3000 BCE to the current century. It has a time scale at the top highlights the time and shows the political history and geographical boundaries on the map. |
CNN Ten
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Get 10 Minutes of Unbiased News
CNN 10 puts current events into a 10 minute summary in a comprehensive and organized way. Their show is updated daily on weekdays and they give shoutouts to different schools at the end of every episode. |
Newsela
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Authentic Content from the Most Trusted Names. The news articles span a wide array of content, including science, money, law, health, arts, sports, and opinion. The site provides high-quality nonfiction texts from well-regarded media sources, such as the Washington Post, the Scientific American, the Los Angeles Times, and the Associated Press. An added benefit of using the site is that students not only practice reading nonfiction but also stay current with what is happening locally and globally. |
ProCon
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Read About Some Controversial Topics The mission of ProCon.org is to promote critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting the pro and con arguments to controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan,and freely accessible way. |
Teaching History with 100 Objects
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Research Some of the Most Celebrated Objects in History
Teaching history with 100 objects consists of 100 resources based on objects selected from museums in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales and from the British Museum. These Object Files may be used individually to support and enhance teachers’ current practice or can be combined to provide object-based units of study for a historical period, culture or theme. |
NPR's Story Corps
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Listen to Real Stories Told by Real People Story Corps is an American non-profit organization whose mission is to record, preserve, and share the stories of Americans from all backgrounds and beliefs. |
Podcast Recommendations
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Human Rights Watch
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Research Human Rights Issues from Around the Globe. Human Rights Watch defends the rights of people in 90 countries worldwide, spotlighting abuses and bringing perpetrators to justice. |
Teaching Tolerance
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Research Social Justice Issues Teaching Tolerance is a program of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Its core goals are to “foster inclusiveness, reduce bias, and promote educational equity” for K-12 students in the United States. Teaching Tolerance is also the name of the biannual magazine, above in its iPad edition, published by the group |
LA Conservatory
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Learn Cool Stuff About LA The Los Angeles Conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of Los Angeles County. |
Smart Art History
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Learn About Some Art and by Extension, Some History Smarthistory unlocks the expertise of hundreds of scholars, making the history of art accessible and engaging to more people |
Stanford History Education Group
Stanford University created resources for teachers and students to explore historical topics from a fresh and critical perspective.
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Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles
Eyewitness to History
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Read Some Primary Resources Eyewitness to history is a collection of primary sources organized by topic and time period. |
New York Times: The Learning Network
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Explore Lessons Written by the New York times The Learning Network site is dedicated to helping people teach and learn with Times content. Every school day since 1998, it has offered fresh classroom resources — from lesson plans and writing prompts to news quizzes, student contests and more — all based on articles and images published on NYTimes.com. |
100 People: A World Portrait
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Learn More About Global Diversity The 100 People Foundation helps students to better understand the complex issues facing our planet and the resources we share. By framing the global population as 100 people, our media makes education more engaging and effective, and improves students' abilities to remember and relate to what they learn. |
Have you ever made a Padlet? (Need a Book Suggestion?)
The Choices Program: Brown University
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Research Current and Historical World Affairs The Choices Program is a program affiliated with the Department of history at Brown University and works to create lessons that content history and current affairs. |
PBS News Hour Extra
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Explore Lessons and Resources Created by PBS News Hour Using the standards and resources of PBS’s NewsHour, PBS NewsHour Extra provides middle and high school students and teachers with quality educational resources based on current issues and events. Extra’s mission is to help middle and high school students understand world events and national issues and answer the question, “Why should I care about the news?” |
Big History Project
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Try to Understand Big Ideas in a Historical Context
Big History examines our past, explains our present, and imagines our future. It's a story about us. An idea that arose from a desire to go beyond specialized and self-contained fields of study to grasp history as a whole. This growing, multi-disciplinary approach is focused on high school students, yet designed for anyone seeking answers to the big questions about the history of our Universe. The Big History Project is a joint effort between teachers, scholars, scientists, and their supporters to bring a multi-disciplinary approach to knowledge to lifelong learners around the world. |
Smarter Balanced Practice Test
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Practice Taking the End of the Year State Test |
Fact or Fake News; Test Your Judgment
Pew Research Center
Quiz: How well can you tell factual from opinion statements? |
Factitious News Game
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College and Scholarship Information
Archaeology Magazine
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Read About Current Archaeological Studies Archaeology magazine is a bimonthly magazine for the general public, published by the Archaeological Institute of America. (The institute also publishes the professional American Journal of Archaeology.) The magazine's website has a plethora of free articles, photographs, videos, and podcasts. |
National Geographic Recommendations
Click the image and investigate the diets of nomadic cultures.
(Article and AMAZING PICTURES!) 
Click the images and investigate the Ancient Aztecs.
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Click the image and investigate the history of Ancient Rome.
(Articles, maps, interactives, videos, and more) 
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The Khan Academy
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Learn about Any and All Historical Topics
Khan Academy is an American non-profit educational organization created in 2008 by Sal Khan, with the goal of creating a set of online tools that help educate students. The organization produces short lessons in the form of videos. Its website also includes supplementary practice exercises and materials for educators. |
Kid World Citizen
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Learn About the World Around You This website is created curated by one woman who happens to be a mom and a teacher. With this website, she shares educational activities to increase global and cultural awareness. The resources are meant for younger students, but for some relaxing low pressure activities this site is perfect. |
History Resources
Hidden World of Girls Radio Stories
A series of radio stories on NPR exploring stories of coming of age, rituals and rites of passage, secret identities–of women who crossed a line, blazed a trail, changed the tide. Written and recorded by the Kitchen Sisters, two radio producers at NPR. Warning: some topics are very mature.