Google Cultural Institute

The Google Cultural Institute is a collection of online exhibitions including video, images, and text. Their goal is to preserve and promote this important primary sources.  The site "includes (and increasingly subsumes) the Google Art Project, which features high-resolution images of artworks from museums in over 40 countries; the World Wonders Project, which presents three-dimensional recreations of world heritage sites; and archival exhibitions, many in partnership with museums around the world."  

You can find primary sources for countless historical events and figures and take virtual tours of well-known landmarks like Machu Picchu or the Museum of Modern Art. You can search for items in a variety of ways (see right). I could see this being used for a flipped classroom or to supplement your current lessons. Students could find historical places mentioned in stories or research famous artwork seen in textbooks. Students could create a gallery of sources to present to the class on a certain artist, time period, or location.

Here is a brief overview of what Google Cultural Institute is like:

Watch this video for an in-depth tutorial of the site:

There is also a YouTube channel for the GCI and dozens of other videos to help you integrate the site into your classroom.