•  Association of teachers websites Part of the UK National Grid for Learning. includes Member sites - Useful educational sites for Primary and Secondary teachers, pupils and parents. Organised by subject area and contains the main Key Stage History sites.
• Best of History Web Sites portal created for history teachers, students, and general history enthusiasts. Best of History Web Sites now features links to K-12 history lesson plans, teacher guides, activities, games, quizzes, and more throughout its pages.
• Internet Resources in History Useful list of general resources for teachers
• studentsfriend.com A guide for high school teachers of world history (and geography). Content includes fundamental information about history teaching, resources, a concise alternative textbook and lesson plans
• Teaching American History Resource Center provides links to and information about publications, resources, and activities for teachers of history.

free commercial/public sites

•  BBC Less comprehensive than in the past due to regulatory pressure from the subscription sites, but still an excellent resource. BBC Schools history links to: primary, 11-16, 16+ Excellent resources with links to bite size and the many, many sites that cater for adult interest history. Plenty quizzes and exercises if you have the IT room booked.... If you have links to their older sites (eg GCSE sites on the Dictators) use The Wayback machine to find them again!
• Discovery The school site of the TV company. Especially useful is Puzzlemaker for easy word searches, crossword puzzles and more, made by you using their web site...
• pbsteachersource US Public Broadcasting Service site helps preK-12 (secondary) educators learn effective ways to incorporate online tools in the classroom through nearly 4,000 free lesson plans, teachers' guides, homeschooling guidance and other resourceful activities - all correlated to national and state curriculum standards. The search page for history (social studies) materials can be found here
• Unfortunately, more and more commercial sites are becoming just that: subscription only. So unless you can get your college/school to subscribe ....

articles about history teaching

• Online Publications from the American Historical Association. A good list of worthwhile articles - and all free!
• History in Colleges Ofsted, the official body responsible in the UK for ensuring & maintaining teaching standards in education has published a report into History in Colleges. Includes key views held by both teachers and their students. See also café historia for editors comments

•  Active History The interactive website at Wolverhampton Grammar School. Useful activities, lesson plans, puzzles to KS3 & 4 (ages 11-16). Regrettably, despite being a compendium of items submitted free of charge by practicing teachers, this site has become subscription only, succumbing to the availability of UK government money for schools to use the internet, but making it unavailable to history students worldwide on the web.
• History Matters! Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History courses. This site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers useful practical materials for teaching  history.
• History Now A quarterly online journal for American history teachers and students. All issues are archived at this link
• Learn.co.uk  From the Guardian (subscription only: your school may have it)
• Learn History  Site for KS3 & 4 (ages 11-16) History. Good links to activities, powerpoints available on the web for teachers to use.
• Puzzlemaker very good tool from the Discovery channel. You enter in the key words, questions whatever and it will miraculously turn them into word searches/crossword puzzles, word mazes. One word of note: it can be very slow in the evening when everyone is using them for tomorrows lesson plans...
• Teacher Oz's Kingdom of History: A database of topically organized internet resources for use by students, teachers, and others. Focuses mainly, but not exclusively on U.S. History.
• Teacher Resource Exchange: History An interesting one this: Swap teaching materials with other teachers on the web!
• Teaching History - Directory of Online Educational Resources on Teaching World History Huge directory of appropriate sites world wide in the English language for teaching history

schemes work/lesson plans

•  SchoolHistory.co.uk home Excellent site for teaching resources and ideas. Contributions are made by teachers and include lesson plans, resources, and differentiated materials as well as links
• Education World Lesson Planning Channel From the US Education World site. Beware: this can be slow to load, especially early morning US time - leaving planning to the last minute?
• Edsitement! Created by the US National Endowment for the Humanities, EdSITEment is a portal to the “best of humanities on the web.” The websites featured on EdSITEment have been peer-reviewed by panels of educators and academics. The specially prepared lesson plans utilize online resources.
• ozhistorybytes An innovative online journal published three times a year, with articles designed for students and teachers. Several items are linked to teaching schemes and ideas. Part of the Commonwealth (of Australia) History Project.