Welcome! This web site has been created for U.S.
History teachers at the high school level. The purpose of this web
site is to assist teachers by giving samples of lessons that can be used
to teach history across the curriculum. It is important for teachers
to use different methods and approaches so that we can reach all of our
students and make learning history both interesting and fun.
My web site has been
created to assist high school teachers. I will offer samples of lessons
for teaching history using art, teaching history using Internet Technology,
and teaching history using music. My web site will focus on the history
of the U.S. in the 1960s. I will include helpful web sites and reading
lists that can be used to enhance learning.
Howard Gardner’s “Theory of Multiple Intelligences” supports the idea that there are seven different types of students and intelligences. In order to reach all of the students, we must teach across the curriculum and use different approaches. Also, the use of the World Wide Web to help teach history is necessary to teach history effectively in the 21st Century. William Friedman, author of the book A Web of Commerce, A Guide to History on the Internet, encourages the use of the Internet to teach history. “The Web gives historical investigation a multimedia dimension, enabling users to examine archives of art, photographs, cartoons, lithographs, music, oral history, speeches, and graphic reproductions of artifacts”.