Top Level  /  School Education  /  Curriculum Resources  /  History  /  Senior secondary history

141 items found.

1492: An Ongoing Voyage  
URL:http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/1492/
Category:Senior secondary history  World history  European history 

This online exhibition from the American Library of Congress examines the first sustained contacts between American people and European explorers, conquerors and settlers from 1492 to 1600. During this period, in the wake of Columbus's voyages, Africans also arrived in the hemisphere, usually as slaves. All of these encounters, some brutal and traumatic, others more gradual, irreversibly changed the way in which peoples in the Americas led their lives.

1901 to World War II  
URL:http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/index.html
Category:Senior secondary history  European history  Historical Studies 

This world history sub-site covers events leading to the two world war and revolution, economic and social developments and World War II. It includes maps and some images.

1942: Battlefield Singapore  
URL:http://www.s1942.org.sg/s1942/home/
Category:Senior secondary history  World history 

This site from the Singapore National archives draws on primary resources such as archived documents, newspaper clippings, photographs, sound recordings, war diaries and oral histories of soldiers and those who witnessed how World War Two came to Singapore.

6th - 15th Centuries: The World During the Middle Ages  
URL:http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/index.htm
Category:Senior secondary history  European history  Ancient societies  Historical Studies 

This site covers World history from the 6th to 15th centuries. It contains essay-style overviews, maps, a timeline and a small number of images.

Albert Speer - Who Was He?  
URL:http://www.webquestdirect.com.au/webquest.asp?id=72
Category:Society & Environment Learning Quests  Senior secondary history 

This WebQuest is designed for students in NSW Stage 6 Modern History, Australia. It explores the role of Albert Speer as Hitler's architect and Armaments Minister during World War II. It looks at Speer's activities and various interpretations of his actions both during the 1933-45 period and his subsequent imprisonment and life after his release from Spandau Prison in 1946.

Alexander Palace Time Machine  
URL:http://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/
Category:Senior secondary history  European history 

This site provides abundant information about the Alexander Palace in St. Petersburg. Site visitors can meet Palace personalities including tsars from Catherine the Great onwards, take a virtual tour, examine floor plans, view photographs, and explore the palace history and archives.

America by Air  
URL:http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal102/americabyair/index.cfm
Category:Senior secondary history 

Explore the history of commercial air travel in these online activities. Navigate your way along an early airmail route. Make a newsreel about the first around-the-world flight by scheduled airlines. See if you would have qualified to be a stewardess in the 1950s. And much more!

American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library  
URL:http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
Category:World history  Senior secondary history 

American Memory consists of primary source and archival materials relating to American culture and history. These historical collections are the key contribution of the Library of Congress to the National Digital Library. Most of these offerings are from the Library's unparalleled special collections.

Ancient Civilizations  
URL:http://www.ancientcivilisations.co.uk/home_set.html
Category:Senior secondary history  Ancient societies 

Ancient Civilizations is written and maintained by the British Museum. It is predominantly aimed at middle school aged children but contains useful content for upper secondary also. Topics include, writing, building, religion, cities, trade and technology of the time.

Ancient Greece - history, mythology, art, culture and architecture.  
URL:http://www.ancientgreece.com/s/Main_Page/
Category:Senior secondary history  Ancient societies 

Links and information on Ancient Greece: history, mythology, art and architecture, olympics, wars, people, geography, etc...