US National Archives
Docsteach: The Constitution in Action: Article Ii (Lab Team 3)
In this activity students will analyze the Senate Journal of the First Congress and identify how the document demonstrates content contained within Article II of the Constitution in action.
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Docsteach: The Constitution in Action: Article Iii (Lab Team 4)
In this activity students will analyze the Opinion of the Court by Chief Justice Earl Warren in the Case of Miranda v. Arizona and identify how the document demonstrates content contained within Article III of the Constitution in action.
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Docsteach: The Constitution in Action: Article Iv (Lab Team 5)
In this activity students will analyze the Petition Against the Annexation of Hawaii and identify how the document demonstrates content contained within Article IV of the Constitution in action.
US National Archives
Docsteach: Benjamin Franklin: Politician and Diplomat
In this activity, students will review and analyze the founding documents of the United States and understand Benjamin Frankin's contributions and connections to these founding documents. Franklin was the only man to help shape all of...
US National Archives
Docsteach: Assimilation of American Indians
In this activity, students will analyze primary sources to determine the role and activities the federal government undertook in an attempt to 'Americanize' or assimilate Native Americans.
US National Archives
Docsteach: The Titanic Disaster: One Survivor's Story
For this activity, middle schoolers will follow the story of one Titanic survivor, Lucy Ridsdale. A fifty year old nurse from Great Britain, Lucy would survive the Titanic disaster aboard lifeboat 13.
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Docsteach: Titanic Survivors: One Ship, Two Different Worlds
This short analysis activity asks students to examine two claims filed by survivors of the April 15, 1912 Titanic disaster to understand the vast class differences between a first class passenger and a steerage passenger. Students will...
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Docsteach: Inevitable Accident or Wrongful Act: Judging the Titanic Disaster
This activity asks students to analyze evidence presented in the 'In the Matter of the Petition of the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, Limited, for Limitation of its Liability as owner of the steamship TITANIC' case that began after...
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Docsteach: The Titanic Disaster: Measuring Loss of Life, Property and Injuries
Students will analyze claims filed by survivors, families of victims and owners of cargo of the Titanic disaster. They will examine claims for loss of life, loss of property and injuries that were filed as part of 'In the Matter of the...
US National Archives
Docsteach: The Constitution in Action: Articles V,vi,vii (Lab Team 6)
In this activity students will analyze Senator Lyndon B. Johnson's Oath of Office and identify how the document demonstrates content contained within Article V,VI, or VII of the Constitution in action.
US National Archives
Docs Teach: Analyzing Evidence of the Pearl Harbor Attack
This activity is intended to get students thinking about where information comes from, how it is presented, how its presentation affects understanding, and how information is used. Because the featured document relates to the Japanese...
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Docs Teach: Checks and Balances in Action
In this activity, students will analyze documents that span the course of American history to see examples of 'checks and balances' between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches in action. Students will then match the...
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Docs Teach: Nixon Visits China: The Week That Changed the World
In this activity, students will analyze images from President Nixon's visit to China in 1972 to determine the sequence of events and learn more about American and Chinese cultural differences.
US National Archives
Docs Teach: Separation of Powers or Shared Powers
In this activity, students will analyze documents that illustrate the relationship between the legislative, executive and judicial branches. Using the scale in Weighing the Evidence, students will decide whether the United States...
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Colonial Williamsburg: Eighteenth Century Music and Dance
Site provides lesson that examines the role of dance and music in Colonial Williamsburg. Interactive group activities highlight this lesson.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: What Artifacts Reveal About the Past
This site provides a lesson plan to teach the importance of analyzing artifacts, past and present.
University of Chicago
University of Chicago: Oriental Institute
Home page of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. A very simple, but easy site to navigate and find what you are looking for. Links to research archives, electronic resources, and projects are available on this site.
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Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Using Primary Sources in the Classroom [Pdf]
This lesson provides guidelines for teaching students how to use primary sources such as images, text, or statistics (e.g., maps, census). Includes a document analysis worksheet.
PBS
Pbs: The 1900 House
PBS transports a modern family back to 1900 so that we may learn, from their experience, what daily life was like at the turn of the twentieth century.
Black Past
Black Past: Woodson, Carter
This encyclopedia entry tells about Carter Woodson, an influential black educator, researcher, and author.
Harp Week
Education at Harp Week: The Civil War Illustrations Activity
A set of three activities where students explore and analyze illustrations and cartoons from Harper's Weekly magazine that showed what life was like in the United States during the Civil War. The first activity looks at why the North won...
US National Archives
Docsteach: The Third League in Professional Baseball
Students will analyze three documents from the court case The Federal League of Baseball Clubs v. The American and National Leagues of Baseball Clubs to gain an understanding of baseball contracts and labor issues in the Progressive Era....
US National Archives
Docsteach: Baseball on the World War I Homefront
Students will begin to learn about the changes that occurred on the American homefront because of World War I by analyzing correspondence from Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt and Boston Red Sox Owner and President...
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Docsteach: Baseball: A Morale Booster During Wartime?
Students will learn about the role of baseball on the American homefront during World Wars I and II. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy (during World War I) and President (during World War II), commented on the...