HISTORY CURRICULUM, Grades K-5

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

     
K - 6 Houghton Mifflin California History-Social Science
FREE online activities to coordinate with their 2007 California edition textbook series. Go to the website, click on the grade, click one of the following activities: Unit Bibliographies, Interactive Lesson Summaries, Outline Maps, Graphic Organizers, California Community Handbook, Weekly Reader: Current Event. Lists of trade books to read that coordinate with each unit in the student's history textbook.
http://www.eduplace.com
Social Studies:
http://www.eduplace.com/ss/socsci/ca/
California Edition Textbook, Social Studies Resources
http://www.eduplace.com/ss/
     
K - 12 Internet4Classrooms
Web portal for free interactive websites for core subjects and electives.
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/
Social studies resources page.
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/social.htm
     
K - 12 McAllen Public Library - Homework Helper (all subjects)
http://www.mcallenlibrary.net/children/homeworkhelpers.aspx

     
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 Read*Write*Think
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
     
5 - 12 Digital History
Online American History Textbook, links to primary sourses, lesson plans and guides, student inquiries and activities, and multi-media.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/hyper_titles.cfm