Displaying 13 resources
Stories of the Wrights Flight
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.Lesson plan includes firsthand accounts of the Wright brothers first flights on December 17, 1903, which students compare to a s...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0The Unfinished Lincoln Memorial
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, Visual Arts, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Types of Media, History-Social ScienceThis lesson, from National Archives and Records Administration Records, is centered around an archive photograph of the unfinish...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Drawings (Documentary)
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.Primarily eyewitness sketches of Civil War scenes and events, including military personnel, battles, civilian activities, and la...Contributor: Library of CongressViews: 0Favorites: 0N.A.R.A. - The Digital Classroom: History in the Raw
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, English-Language Arts, Technology, Arts, Media, & Entertainment and 3 additional..National Archives and Records Administration (N.A.R.A.) - The Digital Classroom: History in the Raw. This page discusses the imp...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Picturing Modern America
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Immigration and Migration, United States, United States History, World History and 3 additional..Picturing Modern America helps students learn about modern America (1880-1920) by analyzing primary sources. Topics include imm...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0Finding Primary Sources: Beginning Research Activities
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: American Democracy, English-Language Arts, Technology, Arts, Media, & Entertainment and 3 additional..National Archives and Records Administration (N.A.R.A.) - The Digital Classroom: Finding Primary Sources: Beginning Research Act...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0The Mathew Brady Bunch: Civil War Newspapers
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, United States History, Arts, Media, & Entertainment and 3 additional..In this Library of Congress activity, students become reporters, assigned to sort through Civil War photographs and find one tha...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0America Dreams
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis WebQuest, presented by the Library of Congress, challenges students to investigate the American Dream. In the course of thi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Using Primary Sources with American Memory Resources
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Visual Arts, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, English-Language Arts, United States History and 2 additional..Ideas for using primary sources from the Library of Congress have been summarized in this guide. Project ideas have been arrange...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0American Memory: The Learning Page Features - Inaugurations
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: Economics, American Democracy, History-Social ScienceThis Feature Presentation includes information, images and activities on the theme of Presidential inaugurations. Some of the...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0The Historian's Sources
Grades: 8 to 12Subjects: United States History, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Literary AnalysisThis lesson, from the Library of Congress American Memory Project, introduces students to primary sources--what they are, their ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0American Memory: The Learning Page Lesson Plans - The Historian's Sources
Grades: 8 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis lesson introduces students to primary sources -- what they are, their great variety, and how they can be analyzed. The less...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Utilizing the Registers of Free Blacks For the City of Staunton and Augusta County, Virginia, 1803-1864
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, History-Social ScienceThis activity, from History Matters, The U.S. Survey Course on the Web, is designed to teach the process of analyzing primary so...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0