Activities

The following link takes you to a Google site created primarily for fifth grade classrooms but could be adapted for any age/grade. The theme is Civil War and the subject is cross-curricular.





Google Search Education: Lesson Plans and live training on how to search for academic sources. @http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation/index.html

[|The National Archives Digital Vault] poster and video creation tools allow students to drag and drop digital artifacts into a poster or video. The National Archives provides images, documents, and audio in an easy to use editor. When making a poster students can combine multiple images, change background colors, and create captions to make collages of digital artifacts. See the screen capture below for a demonstration of poster editing.

The National Archives Experience provides lesson plan ideas, resources and training for teachers as well as actual activities using Web 2.0 tools and links to primary source documents to incorporate into a classroom environment. http://www.digitalvaults.org/#/create/

Ohio History Teachers Primary Resources and Lessons - The following link will provide you with materials and lessons designed to help your students understand primary source materials and how these materials provide a connection to the past. @http://www.ohiohistoryteachers.org/02/04/ups02.shtml

What is a Primary Source? Communities in Crisis? The following link is a to a cross-curriculur language arts/technology/social studies lesson @http://learningtogive.org/lessons/unit16/lesson1.html

Saving America's Civil War Battlefields: Civil War Lesson PLans and Resources @http://www.civilwar.org/education/teachers/lesson-plans/

Using Primary Sources: Letters from Presidents This activity uses personal letters from men who have served as chief executive of the United States of America. @http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/02/lp254-05.shtml @http://www.americanpresidents.org/

Smithsonian Education provides lesson plans and primary sources for an inquiry-basd learning approach. @http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/lesson_plans.html