resourcesforhistoryteachers 

a multimedia/multicultural open content wiki for teachers and students

created by teachers and students

Fall 2025 

Week I Opening Activity 

Education 514 Course Syllabus

Pre course Survey 

Learning Log

resourcesforhistoryteachers is maintained by teachers and students from the History Teacher Education Program in the College of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

 This site features links to primary source, multicultural, and multimedia resources for teaching history in K-12 schools on more than 900 individual pages connected t learning standards in the following curriculum frameworks:

 Massachusetts History & Social Science K-12 Curriculum Framework (2018)

Gif by Jacopo Bertolotti  

• AP World History: Legacy 

• AP World History: Modern

• AP United States History

• AP U. S. Government & Politics

 AP Art History (under development) 

 AP African American Studies (under development)

 AP U.S. Women's History (Proposed and under development)

Changemakers in Global History and Herstory

Changemakers in United States History and Herstory

Free online eBook BUILDING DEMOCRACY FOR ALL: Interactive Explorations of Civics AND Government

Free online eBook Critical Media Literacy and Civic Learning  

 Women and the Wars: Hidden Histories & Untold Stories from the Homefront to the Battlefield  

•  American Revolutionary War  
•  Civil War 
•  World War I 
•  World War II 
•  Cold War and Space Race 
•  American War in Vietnam 
• Late 20th and early 21st Century Wars

 Strategies and Practices for Democratic Teaching and Democratic Schools

 Companion Wiki Site

Link to resourcesforEnglishTeachers

Telegraph key and sounder, 1876

We appreciate your input so if you have suggestions or critiques of this wiki, email Robert W. Maloy, College of Education, University of Massachusetts Amherst at rwm@educ.umass.edu

More Books by Robert W. Maloy

 AI and Civic Engagement: 75+ Cross-Curricular Activities to Empower Your Students. Torrey Trust and Robert W. Maloy. (International Society for Technology in Education, 2025)

Kids Have All the Write Stuff:  Revised and Updated for a Digital Age by Sharon A. Edwards, Robert W. Maloy and Torrey Trust (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019)

 We, The Students and Teachers: Teaching Democratically in the History and Social Studies Classroom by Robert Maloy and Irene LaRoche (State University of New York Press, 2015)

 Wiki Works: Teaching Web Research and Digital Literacy in History and Humanities Classrooms by Robert Maloy and Allison Malinowski (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017)

Animation of a Foucault pendulum (showing the sense of rotation on the southern hemisphere)

Image by Dominique Toussaint 

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

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UMass Land Acknowledgement

The University of Massachusetts Amherst acknowledges that it was founded and built on the unceded homelands of the Pocumtuc Nation on the land of the Norwottuck community. 

We begin with gratitude for nearby waters and lands, including the Kwinitekw -- the southern portion of what’s now called the Connecticut River. We recognize these lands and waters as important Relations with which we are all interconnected and depend on to sustain life and wellbeing.

2 Things You Learned from the Page: One Essential and One Surprising Unknown

One Hidden History/Untold Story from the Page You Would Share with Students

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