• Word Central
  Find Merriam-Webster's Student Dictionary or build your own at this interactive website.
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary
• Roget's Thesaurus
• Grolier Encyclopedia
• Bedford/St. Martin's Collection of Citation Guidlines

GOVERNMENT WEBSITES

• Houston Public Library Online
• Census Bureau
• Library of Congress
• National Register of Historic Places' Searchable Database

• Houston Heights Association
• Woodland Heights Association

• Collection of Oral Histories from around the Country
  Part of the History Matter's Website
• Collection of Slave Narratives
  From University of Virginia
• "What Did You Do During the War Grandma?"
  A Project of the Honors English Program at South Kingstown High School
• The Rutger's Oral History Archives of WWII
• The Drop Zone
  An engaging collection of WWII oral histories and photos
• Ten Principles of Oral History for the Family Historian
  from Baylor University's Institute for Oral History
• Online Archive of California
  These archives are housed at the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. The interviews explore what life was like for Californians, and for people living in the Western United States.

TEACHER RESOURCES

• Current National History Standards

Developed by the National Center for History in Schools
• Texas Education Agency
• HNet-Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine
  A variety of resources for History/Social Studies educators. For links to other online projects to use in your classroom:
  HNet teacher pages
• History and Social Science Lesson Plans
  Part of the Education World website
• Lightspan.com
  An online resource for teachers featuring lesson plans.
• Quia!
  Online quizes and games that test essential knowledge in all sorts of subjects including history and geography
• Oral History for Texans
  This website contains two documents in pdf format that discuss both practical and theoretical considerations of working on an oral history project.

HISTORY & SOCIAL STUDIES WEBSITES

• HyperHistory Online
  A great inter-active timeline for quick reference and research
• The Daily Life Website
  Find out what every day life was like in ancient civilizations all over the world.
• European Voyages of Exploration
  From the University of Calgary
• History of 19th Century in Political Cartoons
  Check out the very first political cartoons in history.

TECHNOLOGY TIPS

• Tammy's Technology Tips--General computer instructions, lesson plans, student instructions, and rubrics for assessment of classroom computer projects.
  
• Kathy Shrock's Guide for Educators --Categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth.
• Texas Center for Educational Technology--Issues and strategies involved in the integration of technology.
• Web for Teachers Home--The online space for teachers integrating technology into the curriculum.

• 169 Years of Historic Houston
  Learn about Houston's history in this web site, published by HoustonHistory.com.
• Texas History Timeline
  From Lone Star Junction
• The Austin Colony
  Prepared by the Brazos County Historical Museum

• School House Rock
  Learn all sorts of things about American history (and other subjects too) with these animated music videos.
• Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
  A good overview of American history from European exploration to the present
• Digital History
  Includes some information from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History but also has texts and other primary sources from the era of European exploration to today.

• The Peopling of North America
  From the Univeristy of Calgary. Examines migratory movements within North America
• Discovers by the Alphabet
  Part of Discoverers Web
• Virtual Jamestown
  Check out this page to get a glimpse into England's first permanent settlement in the New World--Jamestown.

• The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communitites in the American Civil War
  Takes a close look at the Civil War Era throught the eyes of two communities.

• Modern World History
  A BBC website that explores the causes and milestones of WWII. Features great interactive quizes and a timeline.
• World War II: The Homefront
  A Think Quest website focusing on the effects of WWII on life in the US.
• World War II:Documents
  Created by the Yale Law School Avalon Project
• We Witnessed the Attack on Pearl Harbor
  A Scholastic website detailing the events leading up to and during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
• A People at War
  Explores the contributions of Americans, at home and abroad, to the WWII effort using documents from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
• Women Come to the Front
  A collection of the stories of women who experienced WWII's front firsthand the stories of women who were at the front in WWII
• The 36th Infantry Division in WWII: A Pictoral History
  An exhibit from the Texas Military Forces Museum that dipicts the history of the Army division composed almost entirely of Texans.
• Deliverance! It has come!
  This website recounts the events missionary Herman K. Beaber experienced as a Prisoner of War in the Phillipines during World War II.
• Life Interrupted
  An overview of what life was like for Japanese Americans who were placed in the Arkansas internment camps during World War II.

• Architectural History of the Houston Heights
  Speech given by Dr. Stephen Fox from Rice University