10. African American History- World Book Encyclopedia
11. Smithsonian Virtual Museum of African-American History and Culture
12. Teacher Vision : Black History Month:  Lesson plans, glossary, suggested Literature
13. Footprints Magazine:  Celebrating African American Culture and Achievement
14. K-12 Electronic Guide for African Resources on the Internet
15. University of Texas Online Library of Downloadable Maps
16. Great African Kings and Great African Queens
17. The Congo Cookbook
18. The National Council for the Social Studies established the Carter G. Woodson Awards for the most distinguished social science books appropriate for young readers that depict ethnicity in the United States.
19. Free Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: Teaching an learning resources on African American Culture and History

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AFRICAN CLASSROOM RESOURCES

1. For contacting African Embassies: This is a resource of and for the Washington, D.C. foreign embassy community.Classes can contact embassies to request information.  Classes can set up pen pals with students in Africa: World Pen Pals located in Saugerties, NY, has been encouraging friendship and cultural understanding since its founding in 1950 at the University of Minnesota by arranging pen pals for students around the world. Students wishing to correspond in English with a new friend abroad may request an application by contacting World Pen Pals, P.O. Box 337, Saugerties, NY 12477; 845-246-7828 (phone or FAX) or on the web www.world-pen-pals.com.
2. Epals: This is touted as the "world's largest online classroom community and leading provider of student-safe email."
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CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

1. University of Florida's Center for African Studies-- Includes information on teachers' workshops, summer institutes and lesson plans produced by teachers.
2. School District of Penn: K-12 Electronic Guide for African Resources
3. University of Penn: African American Online Lesson Plan Resources
4. African Focus-- Sights and Sounds of a Continent
5. AFROPHILE-- Recommended Titles on Africa for Children and Young People, 1996
6. Exploring Africa-- Introduction to Curriculum Resources
7. Africa: It's Not a Country!-- Recommended Titles on Africa for Children and Young People, 1996
8. Africa-- One Continent, Many Worlds
9. African Odyssey Interactive 
10. Timbuktu-- From its founding to today. Lesson plans and activities
11. African Studies-- Films and videos of Africa
12. Country Specific Links-- Includes African Embassies, diplomats and maps
13. Africa Access-- Annotations and critiques of children's materials on Africa
14. African Studies-- K-12 guide for African resources on the Internet
15. African Studies Center Outreach Program

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Children's Magazines on Africa/African American Topics

Appleseeds- Magazine, general Social Studies for young readers ages 7-9

• February 2000- Person of the Year: Jackie Robinson
• April 2003- Growing Up During the Civil War

 Cobblestone - Magazine-- Search for the following titles on this site, or search for Black or African Americans for more titles and lessons.

•  Feb. 1982- Harriet Tubman
•  Feb. 1989- Frederick Douglass: Fighter for Freedom
•  Feb.1991- Harlem Renaissance
•  Feb. 1992- African American Inventors
•  Feb. 1993- Antislavery Movement
•  Feb. 1994- Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
•  Oct. 1994- Louis Armstrong and the Art of Jazz
•  Feb. 1996- Mary McLeod Bethune
•  Feb. 1997- Tuskegee Airmen
•  Feb. 1998- African American Education: A Proud Heritage
•  Feb. 1999- Homesteading: Exodusters and the Other Black Pioneers
•  Feb. 2000- W.E.B. DuBois
•  Feb. 2002- NAACP

 Footsteps- African American History Magazine for Readers 9-14

1999

• Charter Issue- Sengbe and the Armistead
• January - The Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry
• March- Black Cowboys and Cowgirls
• September - Mansa Musa
• November - Sally Hemings

2000

• January - Blacks and the Gold Rush
• March - Negro Baseball Leagues
• May - Birmingham Bus Boycott
• September - Toussaint L'Ouverture and Haiti
• November- Slavery at Mount Vernon

2001

• January - Liberia
• March- Voluntary Immigration to the U.S.
• May - American Negro Theater
• Sept/Oct.- Cape Verde Islands
• Nov./Dec.- Martin Luther King, Jr. : The Morehouse Years

2002

• Jan./Feb. - Railroad Life
• March/Apr. - Early Music
• May/June - Colonial Slavery
• Sept./Oct. - The Great Migration
• Nov./Dec. - Blacks and the White House

2003

• Jan./Feb.- Underground Railroad
• March/Apr. - Thurgood Marshall and Civil Rights
• May/June - Black Folk Art

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FAMOUS WOMEN IN HISTORY

1. ALPHABETICAL INDEX**
2. FAMOUS PEOPLE BIOGRAPHY SEARCH
3. PEOPLE IN HISTORY

Women in History
Suggested Resources and Activities for Educators
School Board of Alachua County
Debbie Gallagher, Teacher Specialist Social Studies

1. Women's History Page http://www.dade.k12.fl.us/socsci/mandates/faces/index.html
2. Resources developed in Dade County
3. National Women's History  http://www.nwhp.org/tlp/links/links.html National Women's History Project Web site's links  
4. Distinguished Women of Past and Present http://www.DistinguishedWomen.com This is a women's history researcher's dream! You can search for famous women by name or subject.
5. Encyclopedia Britannica Women's History Site http://women.eb.com This multimedia site features over 1,200 articles and 1,000 biographies about great women. You can find a four-part timeline, topical essays, video, and audio pieces.
6. Great Speeches of Great Women http://gos.sbc.edu This site offers tons of speeches by great women. This is a solid resource for a speech class activity or research.
7. Notable Women Ancestors http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/ This site is a database of women ranging from celebrities to grandmothers. You can even add your own heroines and relatives into the mix.
8. African-American Women http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html This page offers insight into African-American women slave's experience at the personal level. It includes scanned images of manuscript pages and full text of writings of several African-American women.
9. International Women's Air and Space Museum http://www.iwasm.org This site offers interesting facts, and most importantly, web links to further information on women in aviation. 
10. 4000 Years of Women in Science and (Mathematics) http://crux.astr.ua.edu//4000ws/4000ws.html This is a wonderful site where you can find biographies, photos, and reference lists for further information.
11. History of Women in Astronomy http://astron.berkeley.edu/~gmarcy/women/history.html This is a good resource, featuring not only photos and biographies of accomplished women astronomers, but links to sites discussing current issues affecting women in this field.
12.  Women of NASA http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/index.html This top-notch and recently updated site provides information on the women who have made NASA what it is today. Check out profiles of the numerous women previously and currently involved in NASA; also engage in a chat or gather some teaching tips. This site even presents all the above information in Spanish and encourages bilingual chats.
13. 96 Years of Women in the Olympics http://www.feminist.org/archive/olympics/intro.html  This resource, complete with profiles of athletes and coaches, has an overview of women in sports and great links.
14. National Museum of Women in the Arts http://www.nmwa.org This museum's detailed permanent collection of women artists stretches from the Renaissance to the postmodern era, with over 16,000 artists files-all about women. Take a virtual tour of the museum, search past and present exhibition catalogues, teacher newsletters and packets.
15. American Women in Uniform http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/ This site has lots of good data regarding women's contributions to the war effort.
16. Florida State Archives http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/barm/fsa/women'sguide.htm This site contains women in Florida history. It has excellent links.
17. National Park Service http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/categrs/women.htm  This site contains information on National Park sites related to Women's History. Additional links are provided. 
18. Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During WWII http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html

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NATIVE AMERICANS IN HISTORY

1. NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ARCHIVE
2. NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN RESOURCE SITES
3. NATIVE AMERICANS--culture and diversity
4. WHAT IS A LONGHOUSE?
5. FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR PAGE
6. IROQUOIS INFORMATION LINKS
7. INDIAN AND THE CUPBOARD--LORE GALORE
8. IROQUOIS SOCIETY
9. SIOUX INDIAN AGREEMENT 1882
10. NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN RESOURCE SITES

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AMERICAN HISTORY FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS

1. THE HISTORIAN INDEX OF RESOURCES
2. CIVIL RIGHTS YAHOO! HISTORY LINKS
3. SEARCH BIGCHALK.COM ON HISTORY
4. THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION AND OTHER U.S. DOCUMENTS
5. AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
6. BLACK HISTORY AND LITERATURE BLACK HISTORY PAGES
7. THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS RESOURCE PAGE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION
8. U.S. HISTORICAL MAPS AMERICAN HISTORY OUTLINE
9. THE HISTORY CHANNEL ONLINE FORT LARAMIE TREATY OF 1868 FLAGS OF U.S. THROUGHOUT HISTORY
10. COLONEL AMERICA SITE SHELBURNE MUSEUM/AMERICA'S PAST
11. HISTORY SITES FOR STUDENTS THE HISTORY NET THE AMERICAN WEST determined women in journalism who fought for the right to cover the big stories during WWII.

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HISPANIC HISTORY

1. Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives  http://latino.si.edu  National Park Service: Teaching with Historic places Lesson Plans
2. "Ybor City: Cigar Capital of the World."  http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/51ybor/51ybor.htm   
3. Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with the National Register of Historic Places- September 15-October 15  http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/feature/hispanic/
4. Legado: A Legacy of Hispanic Contributions to the United States  http://www.dade.k12.fl.us/socsci/mandates/legado/index.html
5. Cesar Chavez Day of Service and Learning- March 31  http://rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/chavez

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FLORIDA HISTORY 

1. FLORIDA KIDS PAGE

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SOUTH AFRICAN STUDIES

1. Yahooligans South Africa Links
2. Going Places in South Africa
3. South Africa Fact Book
4. Nelson Mandela (Biography)
5. The Geography of South Africa
6. Swaziland

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WORLD HISTORY 

1. AP EUROPEAN HISTORY
2. HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE NET
3. BOSNIAN VIRTUAL FIELDTRIP
4. WORLD HISTORY REFERENCE DESK
5. YAHOO! WORLD HISTORY LINKS
6. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
7. ANCIENT WORLD WEB
8. CAROUSELS AND THEIR HISTORY
9. THE FIREHOUSE MUSEUM
10. EGYPTIAN DIG SITE
11. FLINTS AND STONES
12. THE MAYAN ADVENTURE
13. MAYA QUEST HOME PAGE
14. GREEK/ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY
15. TREASURES OF CZARS
16. THE VIKINGS!
17. ROME REBORN/VATICAN EXHIBIT
18. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE
19. MEDIEVAL HISTORY
20. EUROPEAN AND RUSSIAN HISTORY
21. GATEWAY TO WORLD HISTORY
22. A GUIDE TO HISTORY
23. THE HISTORY PLACE
24. THE MYSTERIES OF EGYPT
25. HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS GOPHER
26. THE PYRAMIDS AMAZING CHRONOGRAPHY
27. GREEK AND ROMAN CLASSIC ARCHIVES
28. THE HISTORIAN INDEX OF RESOURCES
29. WORLD HISTORY ARCHIVES II**
30. ROMAN HISTORY

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WORLD CULTURES AND RELIGION

1. FLORIDA JEWISH HISTORY MONTH
2. EXPLORING ANCIENT WORLD CULTURES
3. THE CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA
4. WORLD CULTURES
5. LIFE IN CHINA
6. LEARN SPANISH AND ABOUT SPANISH CULTURE
7. ANCIENT PEOPLES
8. GENEALOGY SITES
9. WORLD CULTURES
10. ARCHAEOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY
11. WORLD RELIGION LINKS
12. WORLD HOLIDAYS
13. ANCIENT AMERICANS
14. WORLD SCRIPTURES AND TRADITIONS
15. UNITED NATIONS

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AFRICAN AMERICANS AND WARS

1. AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ARCHIVE
2. AMERICAN CIVIL WAR HOME PAGE
3. AMERICAN CIVIL WAR NET
4. AMERICAN CIVIL WAR-- MILITARY HISTORY
5. AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR
6. AMERICAN COLONEL ERA AND REVOLUTIONARY WAR
7. AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR LINKS BY "LOOKSMART"
8. WORLD WAR I ARCHIVE
9. WORLD WAR I INTERNET HISTORY
10. WORLD WAR I--MILITARY HISTORY
11. WORLD WAR II ARCHIVE
12. HISTORY PLACE W.W.II TIMELINE
13. HOLOCAUST CYBRARY
14. HOLOCAUST HISTORY PROJECT
15. HOLOCAUST TIMELINE BY "THE HISTORY PLACE"
16. HOLOCAUST TEACHER RESOURCE CENTER
17. KOREAN WAR PROJECT
18. KOREAN WAR LINKS --MILITARY HISTORY
19. VIETNAM WAR INTERNET PROJECT
20. VIETNAM WAR LINKS --MILITARY HISTORY
21. THINKQUEST WORLD WAR II--HOMEFRONT
22. WARS OF THE 20TH CENTURY
23. 20TH CENTURY WAR LINKS BY "LOOKSMART"

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RESEARCH AND REFERENCE

1. HARCOURT ONLINE RESOURCES SNIPPETS-- used to track current information on political events, market trends, weather, or other areas of interest.
2. HISTORY MATTERS-- The U.S. Survey Course on the Web provides valuable resources to help teachers search the Web of quality history resources

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LESSON PLANS AND TEACHER GUIDES

1. TLC CURRICULUM RESOURCE PAGE
2. COMPUTER INTEGRATED LESSON PLANS
3. EDUCATORS PLANNING SITE
4. HISTORY MATTERS-- The U.S. Survey Course on the Web provides valuable resources to help teachers search the Web of quality history resources
5. SNIPPETS-- used to track current information on political events, market trends, weather, or other areas of interest.

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