Hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Museum, the site has a plethora of images to help document the time. This informative site was created by tenth grade students for a school project. It answers many common questions about immigration and organizes information according to topic and date. A great resource for any immigration project. Historic Places A joint project of the National Park Service, the National Register of Historic Places, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, this site contains an index of lesson plans for teaching history through historic places.
Lessons are available online as are tips for creating lessons based on local historic sites.
You Be the Historian A fun way to learn history as well as investigation skills. Students try to figure out what life was like 200 years ago for a family in New Castle, Delaware by checking out artifacts from that time. This site has art, math, science, and social studies activities related to ancient Egypt. Students can learn about hieroglyphs and pyramids and create their own mini-Egypt in the classroom. A site on ancient mesoamerican civilizations, created by a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota.