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WORLD HISTORY American Historical Association (AHA) www.historians.org/teaching/index.cfm AHA has a long-standing commitment to teaching and history education at all levels of schooling, and supports it in a variety of ways. At the annual meeting, the AHA and its affiliates sponsor many sessions on teaching. The AHA offers a number of prizes and awards, and supports the good work of National History Day. The web site has gathered together a wide range of publications, and links to other organizations working in the same area.
Bridging World History www.learner.org/channel/courses/worldhistory Bridging World History is organized into 26 thematic units along a chronological thread. Materials include the Unit’s content overview, selected readings, bibliography, videos, audio glossary and thematically organized activities. The program is distributed by Annenberg Channel which is a free satellite channel for schools, colleges, libraries, public broadcasting stations, and other non-commercial community agencies. It runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and airs the video programs funded by Annenberg Media. It is available free to any agency with a Ku-band satellite dish and a DigiCipher II satellite receiver. World History is only one of the many subjects available to schools.
Facing History and Ourselves Facing History offers curriculum materials and professional development programs on especially tragic periods of history, such as the genocides that occurred during the Holocaust and in Rwanda and Armenia; injustices toward African Americans throughout history; and exclusionary acts against Asian immigrants to the U.S. during WWII. The site features multimedia resources, study guides, an online teaching community, and links to other Web and print resources. The nine regional offices of Facing History can be found on the web site.
The The teachers and scholars who collaborate through
Historical Text Archive (HTA) The HTA publishes high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects. The site is divided into articles, e-books, and links. The site contains over 6000 links in approximately 25 categories.
The History Channel.com Many of the History Channel programs can be purchased on this site. The site provides teachers’ manuals/study guides for many of these. The site also has speeches; maps; videos, CD-Roms and DVDs; and other materials of value to history teachers. Teachers are encouraged to subscribe to both a newsletter and a magazine. These are high quality programs and supportive materials. The History Channel Multimedia Classroom is a special feature of the site. It contains a set of interactive social studies teaching tools drawn for its award-winning program content.
H-WORLD H-World is a member of H-NET Humanities & social Sciences OnLine. The H-World discussion list serves as a network of communication among practitioners of world history. The list gives emphasis to research, to teaching, and to the interaction of the two. Because world history is a new and developing field, H-WORLD makes a special effort to establish institutions and collections of resources. The H-WORLD Gopher provides an archive of previous discussions, plus collections of syllabi, descriptions of academic programs, bibliographies, and links to other resources in world history.
Integrating Archaeology into K-12 Education www.montgomerycollege.edu/departments/neharchaeology This web site provides a global education resource for teachers interested in engaging students in the scientific investigation of archaeology and teaching about one form of preservation. Educators can use the site to: find reliable definitions to key terms related to archaeology, learn about how to integrate archaeology into existing curriculum, search the Archive of Archaeology Lesson Plans and obtain archaeology modules, read about past teacher training experiences, and identify upcoming seminars and programs.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project The Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented clearly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. There are four main source books: Ancient History, Medieval History, Modern History, Byzantine Studies. Other History Sourcebooks include: African, East Asian, Global, Indian, Islamic, Jewish, Lesbian and Gay, Science, Women. The Global History Sourcebook explores the interaction between world cultures. It does not look at history as that of separate cultures, but at ways in which the “world” has a history in its own right. Trade, War, Religion, Empire, and Arts and Music are organizing themes.
The Center has published over seventy teaching units
that are fruits of collaborations between history professors and experienced
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National Council for History Education (NCHE) NCHE is a non-profit corporation dedicated to promoting the importance of history in schools and in society. NCHE links history in the schools with many activities sponsored by state and local organization. NCHE holds an annual conference. The web site provides a listing of links to other organizations and sources as well as a listing of teaching resources. The publication, Building a History Curriculum: Guidelines for Teaching History in Schools also can be found there.
Primary Source Primary Source is a non-profit educational resource
center with a long history of offering high quality professional development
and curriculum resources to K-12 teachers and school communities. The
organization’s mission is to promote social studies and humanities education
that is historically accurate, culturally inclusive, and explicitly concerned
with ending racism and other forms of discrimination. The program offers
study tours to
Women in World History Curriculum This interactive site is full of information and resources about women’s experiences in world history: Biographies, an Online Catalog, Links, Lesson Plans, Reviews of Curriculum, and Book Reviews. Reproducible, spiral bound units offer coverage of the lives of women in a global setting. The easy-to-use original stories, primary sources, critical thinking essays, and activities, complement historic periods and themes that are regularly covered in grades six through twelve.
World History Association The WHA is the foremost organization for the promotion of world history through the encouragement of teaching, research, and publication. It was founded in 1982 by a group of teachers and academics determined to address the needs and interests of what was then a newly emerging historical sub-discipline and teaching field. The WHA has been unique in bridging the gap between secondary and post-secondary educators. The WHA sponsors the quarterly Journal of World History and an annual conference.
The
World History Connected (WHC) WHC is an EJournal of
Learning and Teaching designed for everyone who wants to deepen the
engagement and understanding of world history: students, college instructors,
high school teachers, leaders of teacher education
programs, social studies coordinators, research historians, and librarians.
WHC presents innovative classroom-ready scholarship, keeps readers up-to-date
on the latest research and debates, presents the best in learning and
teaching methods and practices, offers readers valuable teaching resources,
and reports on exemplary teaching. WHC is free worldwide. It is published by
the
World History for Us All http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/dev/default.htm World History for Us All, a project of
World History Network This web site was created to assist researchers, teachers, and general users in searching electronic resources to answer questions about world history. Here are three search sites: research, teaching, discussion. For teachers, resource types include field trips, forums on teaching, future curriculum, lessons and units, professional development, syllabi, teaching journals, and websites on teaching. For resource content, the user can choose a topic, subtopic, region of the world and time period.
World History Sources http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/index.html World History Sources is a program of the Center for
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