Read Like a Historian
A curriculum that engages students in historical inquiry. The Stanford History Education Group produced over 75 Lesson Plans based on primary documents and activities to engage your students in the study of United States History. Asks students to form an opinion, and debate primary source materials: meaningful historical inquiry.
DBQ & Thematic Essay
Greece Public Schools in Greece, NY has collections of Document Based Questions and Thematic Essays. Many come from New York State exams
https://www.greececsd.org/
Pearson Hall
Online educational materials FREE for educators such as vocabulary building activities, review games, interactive links, and assessments.
http://phschool.com/webcodes10/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.gotoWebCode&wcprefix=nck&wcsuffix=2010
Digital History
Plenty of useful materials such as an alternative textbook, teaching ideas, primary documents, learning modules, and media rich lessons.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
Gilder Lehrman Institute
A massive variety of resources to assist teachers and students; provides documents and exercises for classroom use, and encourages excellence in student writing with essay prizes.
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/
Doc Teach
Over Four Thousand primary documents from the National Archives; tons of resources and ready to use tools to enhance your instruction
http://docsteach.org/
Time for Kids
Time Magazine's kids friendly articles.
http://www.timeforkids.com/
The Library of Congress section on American Memory
An indispensible archive from the Library of Congress section on American Memory. Download historical pamphlets from the African American pamplet collection, or three centuries of broadsides, including invitations to pioneers to get their land grants. Look at photographs from the Depression, or from the American West. Subheadings lead you to the archives of collections. You can print from the online image.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
The United States Memorial Holocaust Museum
One of the greatest and most accessible resources for any study of the Holocaust. Print photographs, letters, diary entries. Access historical summaries. Don't miss the Education department, which provides resources for teachers.
http://www.ushmm.org/
How Stuff Works
Explanations of just about everything.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/
Galileo
Video tutorials to help you find informational texts that will meet your students' instructional needs.
http://help.galileo.usg.edu/librarians/training/self_guided/
New York Times Learning Network
The New York Times has professional educators who create weekly lesson plans incorporating news articles from the paper. This page provides teaching and learning strategies you can use before, during, and after instruction.
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/