Historypin is a crowdsourced resource of historical events "pinned" against a map, from recent to ancient. Have students add an event, browse any location, and even narrow their viewing according to time period.

Gapminder shows all kinds of world stats graphs...and they can be animated over time. SO COOL!

Create your own using Google Maps!

Interactive Battle of Shiloh...super cool, and really helps one understand this complicated event. Loaded with bios and interesting facts, too!

Using primary sources to construct a narrative. So far, four activities: Spanish-American War, Scopes Trial, Social Security, and Rosa Parks. These are REALLY great!

This blog post helps break down the vast array of activities available on the Library of Congress website.

The diversity of the world, pared down to a number that is fathomable to kids...imagine the discussions this could spark!

If you're not a member, you should be! Loads of great resources here; the current highlight being a FREE electoral college map for members. Also available: PDF and .jpg images of the map for all, as well as lesson plans and activities for the upcoming election.

The History Channel offers the online citizenship test practice. Choose from the full-length version, or play the short, timed version for competition between kids or classes.

From Stanford University, go beyond the multiple-choice assessment in U.S. history using HATs: Historical Assessment(s) of Thinking. This site will be particularly useful in the TNReady era.

This is an excellent interactive poster that teaches kids what we know about the past and how we know it. Flash required.

Here is another great interactive poster about the Civil War. Flash required.

Create a "story" on MyHistro OR on the free iPad app...includes Google Map locations on each event in the story!

New Google Street View tours of Mesoamerican sites!

Make online geography quizzes that open in Google Maps! Create your own, or assign those already shared by others.

CNN student news is back! Activities and a quiz included with each ~10 minute news video.

An extensive virtual immigration experience...FlashPlayer required.

Neat video from CNN's "Explain it to Me" series explaining the gold standard and offering advice for investors.

These simulation games use Google maps in a whole new way! Students have a much better control interface (includes tutorial), and they have to navigate, search, and calculate as they complete their missions and earn points. Check it out!

The 100% FREE HippoCampus is full of textual and media content for social studies, science and math. Creating an account is also free, and allows you to make your own playlists and organize your choices.

Videos, activities and resources for all things history!

Allows students to see relative sizes of countries, states, or natural/man-made features.

A flash-animated War of 1812 tutorial, with text and animations.

Interactive map showing the War of 1812 from the Canadian perspective. Teacher support materials are linked at the bottom of the page.

From the Smithsonian, a new mystery game for U.S. history students! Site includes loads of documents and video resources, as well.

This is a great site for middle and high school social science teachers...games, activities, lesson plans, etc. all searchable by state standards!

Google has put together a fabulous collection of many historical sites around the world. Entries are searchable by location and/or theme, and include fantastic descriptions and resource collections.

If you haven't seen HipHughes deliver his U.S. history content, you are missing out! Here is his playlist covering all the elections from 1960 to 1992...there is a link to his seven other playlists on this page, as well. This guy is AWESOME.

National Geographic has done it again! Try these daily geography quizzes online, or see my iPad social studies page for the $2 app.

Here is a fabulous infographic on prohibition, though you may want to block out a few of the phrases on it before you show it to kids. ("beer-goggled" and "sloshed"...) It's an image file, so you can easily change those titles in your favorite image editor.

The History Channel has a new web video series called Coroner's Report...short videos that explore the mysteries of death in the past, from famous people to events to methods of execution. You'll need to search "coroner's report" on history.com to view a list.

Scholastic has a new timeline on immigration...the bonus for 8th grade teachers is that it includes loads of info on EARLY immigration (explorers, slavery, colonization, etc.) Very nice.

A White House interior tour is now available on Google maps! Just drag the little yellow street view guide to any part of the house that shows a blue outline.

Bios, stories, or create your own! This is a great activity for many subjects...