HISTORY CURRICULUM, Grades 6-12

HISTORY - WEBSITES
This section lists FREE history websites. See also "Supplemental" online materials. The "Supplemental" online materials are not free and all have a vendor purchase price.

GRADE
WEBSITE

PUBLISHER
(Vendor)

COPYRIGHT
MEETS CA STANDARDS
3 - 12 The History Net
Website sponsored by the Weider History Group, world's largest publisher of history magazines. The site contains daily features, photo galleries, and over 5,000 articles originally published in their various magazines. To find specific history, try searching their archives.
http://www.historynet.com

     

Grades 9 - 12:
US History
Am. Government

HippoCampus
A free public website that offers free courses for high school and college students.
http://www.hippocampus.org/

     
K - 12 McAllen Public Library - Homework Helper (all subjects)
http://www.mcallenlibrary.net/children/homeworkhelpers.aspx

     
K - 6 Houghton Mifflin California History-Social Science - Education Place
FREE online activities to coordinate with this 2007 California edition textbook series. Go to the website, click on the grade, click on the activity: Unit Bibliographies, Interactive Lesson Summaries, Outline Maps, Graphic Organizers, California Community Handbook, Weekly Reader: Current Events. Lists of trade books to read that coordinate with each unit in the student's history textbook.
http://www.eduplace.com
Social Studies for students:
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/ss.jsp
California state and history weblinks:
http://www.eduplace.com/state/ca/ca_links.html#link7
     
K - 12 Discovery Education
Classroom Resources
Includes Puzzlemaker, Lesson Plan Library, and Siemans' STEM Academy, a premier online community designed exclusively to foster achievement in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM).
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/
Home Resources/English
Homework help for the language arts.
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/
     
K - 12 Timeline Creator
Students can make their own customizable timeline, entering events and times of their choice.
http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/student_material.asp?id=7
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