If your question entails a hot-topic problem or demands an eclectic approach, you might consider the Web as a supplement to the standard library resources already described on this page. The Web is a massive, tangled directory of knowledge producers, research, facts, and entertaining tidbits of information, but there are many useful guides to evaluating Web sites. One aimed at teaching evaluation skills to undergraduates identifies five key evaluation criteria that are especially important. We highly recommend Google , which ranks results by number of links leading to a site. The NCHS publishes National History Standards in online and in print form, plus over 60 World History and United States History teaching units.
Topical units contain rich collections of primary sources.
Handouts and primary sources are reproducible for classroom use. The NCHE links history in the schools with many activities sponsored by state and local organizations, and provides a communications network for advocates of history education in schools, colleges, museums, historical councils, and community groups. Members include historians and history teachers, school administrators, authors, publishers, historical association and historical museum personnel, and history buffs. The NCSS, as the largest association in the country devoted solely to social studies education, serves as an umbrella organization for teachers of history, geography, economics, political science, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and law-related education. The OAH in Bloomington, Indiana, promotes historical study and research in the field of American history.