All of the best K-5 online, interactive, educational games and simulations in one place! These activities work great with your SMARTboard or interactive whiteboard for whole group or small group instruction or use in the computer lab or at home for individual learning.

The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library’s vast digital collections in their teaching. Find Library of Congress lesson plans and more that meet Common Core standards, state content standards, and the standards of national organizations.

New York Heritage is a project of the NY 3Rs Association, Inc. New York Heritage is a research portal for students, educators, historians, genealogists, and anyone else who is interested in learning more about the people, places and institutions of New York State. The site provides free access to more than 170 distinct digital collections, totaling hundreds of thousands of items.

Advancing Academic Language for All offers free downloadable units for incorporating academic vocabulary into issues such as social issues and government.

The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science.

A PowerPoint by Anthony Fitzpatrick about the White Out technique: White Out is a method of document analysis for students designed to help them develop a sense of historical literacy through the use of primary sources.

Kids.gov is organized into three audiences: Grades K-5, Grades 6-8, and Educators. Each audience tab is divided into educational subjects like Arts, Math, and History. Within each subject, the websites are grouped as either government sites (Federal, state, military) or other resources (commercial, non-profit, educational). The sites listed under the other resources category are maintained by other public and private organizations. When users click on these links, they are leaving Kids.gov and are subject to the privacy and security policies of the owners/sponsors of the outside websites.

EDSITEment offers a treasure trove for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies. All websites linked to EDSITEment have been reviewed for content, design, and educational impact in the classroom. They cover a wide range of humanities subjects, from American history to literature, world history and culture, language, art, and archaeology, and have been judged by humanities specialists to be of high intellectual quality. EDSITEment is not intended to represent a complete curriculum in the humanities, nor does it prescribe any specific course of study.

Gapminder World Offline lets you explore the world from your own computer, even when you have no Internet. Windows, PC and Linux.

The National WWII Museum is a dynamic educational resource, serving the needs of teachers and students from grade school through the post-graduate level. USA Today gave the Museum its top rank as one of the “Best Places to Learn U.S. Military History.” Exhibitions and programs allow students from all backgrounds to explore the values and beliefs—the universal concepts—that Americans and their Allies embraced during World War II.

Use the Argument Creator to map out complex arguments in a clear visual format.

The Voices of Democracy project is designed to promote the study of great speeches and public debates.

Created by distinguished teacher-scholars Amy Kass and Leon Kass, the What So Proudly We Hail literary-based e-curriculum is a rich source of materials compiled to aid in the classroom instruction of American history, civics, social studies, and language arts. This collection of classic American stories, speeches, and songs is based on the Kasses’ critically acclaimed anthology of the same name.

Register at Facing History and Ourselves for Common Core units that use historical events to combat prejudice.

Teaching Tolerance offers free theme-based units and film kits.

Stossel in the Classroom offers a new DVD free to teachers each school year. The DVDs include video segments from John Stossel’s television programs and specials, along with a teacher guide with lesson plans and ideas for complementary activities.

Use OpenEd to search for videos and games by keyword or directory subject. Browse Common Core and other standards to see associated resources, accurately aligned. Create playlists of videos and other resources.

Eight guides by leading world history scholars to analyzing primary sources: music, images, objects, maps, newspapers, travel narratives, official documents, and personal accounts

Channel One News offers a daily broadcast and supplementary educational materials are aligned to Common Core State Standards (CCSS).

Funded by a grant from the Library of Congress, TPS-Barat uses digitized primary sources from the Library to engage K-12 students, foster inquiry and enhance critical thinking skills.

Use Docs Teach to turn your students into historians with primary-source based activities that develop historical thinking skills. Activities are ready to use in your classroom. Or alter an existing activity to fit your unique needs. Exchange primary source documents and modify activity instructions. Log in to borrow from an even larger selection from fellow educators.

Kids Discover includes high-quality, easy-to-use free resources. Every Kids Discover title comes with a 12-page Teacher’s Guide and a 16-page Power Vocabulary packet, both loaded with activities, exercises, and assessments. Our Infographics take complex concepts and simplify them into easy-to-understand one-sheets, with visual diagrams and short captions. Each article includes a full photo gallery and short assessment. Help kids improve reading comprehension and build vocabulary with these fun, short articles.

Rock and Rock: An American Story is an online educational resource presented by Steven Van Zandt’s Rock and Roll Forever Foundation and offered free-of-charge to educators, students, and individuals everywhere.