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Teaching With Documents

Teaching With Documents
Skip Navigation. Teachers Home > Teachers' Resources > Teaching With Documents Lessons by Era More Lesson Plan Resources Primary Source Research & Classroom Resources DocsTeachFind and create interactive learning activities with primary source documents that promote historical thinking skills. Analysis Worksheets Teaching With Documents: Lesson Plans This section contains reproducible copies of primary documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States, teaching activities correlated to the National History Standards and National Standards for Civics and Government, and cross-curricular connections. Teaching with primary documents encourages a varied learning environment for teachers and students alike. PDF files require the free Adobe Reader. Teachers > Connect With Us Primary Sources DocsTeach Visits & Workshops Other Resources Related:  American History

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Harry Ransom Center Lesson Plans Guide to the Collections The web version (2010) of the Ransom Center's Guide to the Collections (2003) contains information relating to the collections in a considerably revised and updated version. The printed guide is no longer available for purchase. Please note that this Guide is a narrative summary of our collection strengths, not a catalog. To search for specific materials, please see the Research section of our website. For convenience, links have been made to the Finding Aids search page for manuscript, art, performing arts, and photography collections that have finding aids. To search the Guide, enter a term below; to browse, click on one of the Areas of Study in the right-hand menu. The Library Chronicle Online The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin was published between 1943 and 1998. The journal was published in three series (1943-1969; a New Series [1970-1989]; and volumes 20-27 [1990-1997]).

Gettysburg Animated Map « Back to Maps | More on Gettysburg » « View All Animated Maps | More Animated Maps: JavaScript and Adobe Flash 9 are required to view the CWPT Animated Maps. Watch our animated map of the Battle of Gettysburg, produced by Wide Awake Films. Learn more about this important Civil War battle in Pennsylvania. More New Animated Maps Let Us Know Have feedback? Want the Latest? « Back to Maps | More on Gettysburg » « View All Animated Maps | More Animated Maps: JavaScript and Adobe Flash 9 are required to view the CWPT Animated Maps. Watch our animated map of the Battle of Gettysburg, produced by Wide Awake Films. More New Animated Maps Let Us Know Have feedback?

Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. 12 Resources All Social Studies Te One of the things that some readers may not know about me is that I actually do have a day job and don't spend the whole day on the Internet. My day job is teaching high school social studies. For the last couple of years my teaching assignments have been US History and US Civics. In the past I've also taught World Studies courses. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. How All 50 States Got Their Names Alabama Before Europeans landed on American shores, the upper stretches of the Alabama River in present-day Alabama used to be the home lands of a Native American tribe called – drum roll, please – the Alabama (Albaamaha in their own tribal language). The river and the state both take their names from the tribe, that's clear enough, but the meaning of the name was another matter. Despite a wealth of recorded encounters with the tribe – Hernando de Soto was the first to make contact with them, followed by other Spanish, French and British explorers and settlers (who referred to the tribe, variously, as the Albama, Alebamon, Alibama, Alibamou, Alibamon, Alabamu, Allibamou, Alibamo and Alibamu) – there are no explanations of the name's meaning in the accounts of early explorers, so if the Europeans asked, they don't appear to have gotten an answer. The rub, of course, is that experts in the Alabama language have never been able to find any evidence to support that translation. Alaska Hawaii

All About Explorers | Henry Hudson Henry Hudson According to detailed records recently discovered in the archives of the Cork County Records Office in Ireland, Henry Hudson was born in room 441 of the Blarney Medical Center at 3:17 PM on Monday, August 13, 1593. He was a very well-educated man who attended the famous Harvard University. Hudson’s main goal as an explorer was to find a northern passage to the Orient. The Voyages of Henry Hudson (Click to enlarge) On his second voyage, Hudson also used the Hopewell. Hudson’s third voyage was on a smaller ship named the Half Moon. The fourth and final voyage that Hudson made was on a ship called Discovery. While Hudson never did find the Northwest Passage to Asia as he had hoped, he did help to expand human knowledge with his explorations of the Pacific Ocean. Click here for other places to learn about this explorer

The Best Sites For Learning About The Constitution Of The United States | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... Federal legislation requires schools in the United States to offer lessons related to the U.S. Constitution on U.S. Constitution Day — September 17th of each year. You might also be interested in The Best Resources For “Bill Of Rights Day.” Here are my choices for The Best Sites For Learning About The Constitution Of The United States: The Constitution Center has to be everybody’s first stop. Here are collections of the online lessons I used in my United States History classes last year on the Bill of Rights and on the Constitution. The Constitution For Kids has three “levels” of explanations about the U.S. The History Channel has many multimedia features related to the Constitution. How Stuff Works has many videos related to the Constitution. Here’s an interactive “learning object” from the Wisconsin Online Resource Center on Amendments To The Constitution. Here’s a bilingual (English/Spanish) glossary for the Constitution. Quiz Tree has some interactive quizzes on the Constitution. Mr.

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