posted by: Cindy Omlin
| February 22, 2012, 03:25 AM
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To assist students and educators in discussing the topic, free federal resources from various government agencies are available online and are being update all month long. Browse ready-to-use lesson plans, student activities, collection guides and research aids on a special webpage just for teachers.
Take a moment to peruse the following:
The Library of Congress
National Archives (“Teaching With Documents”)
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Gallery of Art
National Park Service
- War for Freedom: African Americans in the Era of the Civil War Each War for Freedom unit guides students to do research with original historic documents, to re-create moments of drama and personal choice, to understand the relevance of the struggle for their own lives, and to synthesize their learning and imagination in creative collaborative projects.
- Teaching with Historic Places uses properties listed in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects. TwHP has created a variety of products and activities that help teachers bring historic places into the classroom.
Have any resources to add? Share them below. Originally shared by Alix at AAE.
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