History Curriculm, Lesson Plans, and Resources
History & Culture
Smithsonian Education offers free History and Culture lesson plans
Smithsonian's History Explorer features free lesson plans, interactive materials, and resources that can be filtered by age and topic.
Hippocampus AP Curriculum
Hippocampus provides free multimedia curriculum across a variety of subjects.
Review the FAQs to learn about options for using their website for AP courses as a homeschooler.
Courses include US History and American Government
Review the FAQs to learn about options for using their website for AP courses as a homeschooler.
Courses include US History and American Government
Stanford History Education Group Curriculum
Stanford History Education Group is offering free lessons plans that help students read history like a historian. "The Reading Like a Historian curriculum engages students in historical inquiry. Each lesson revolves around a central historical question and features sets of primary documents modified for groups of students with diverse reading skills and abilities. This curriculum teaches students how to investigate historical questions employing reading strategies such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading. Instead of memorizing historical facts, students evaluate the trustworthiness of multiple perspectives on issues from King Philip's War to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and make historical claims backed by documentary evidence."
History Channel games, puzzles, quizzes, videos
A variety of multimedia enrichment activities are available through the History Channel.
History of the World Timeline
Dipity allows users to create their own multi-media time lines and share with others. This is one example of a word history timeline.
History related to specific interests
Cycling through the Past is a virtual tour of an and exhibit at Museo Galileo - Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Italy. It discusses the history of cycling and it's role in our world. Don't let the name fool you. It does include information on the role of women in cycling. See also this MSU dissertation "Cycling and women's rights in the suffrage press" by Christine Neejer.