How can opinions slant facts? Workshop participants learn how to examine primary and secondary sources and identify the author's point of view. They also examine how visual art impacts the meaning and rhetoric of sources. Full of...

This excellent teacher resource features lessons that use primary source documents in an engaging way. Included are lesson plans created by teachers, themed resources, primary source sets, presentations and activities, and collections...

If you've ever wondered how early elementary students develop historical thinking skills, check out this lesson with a group of kindergarten students. The Class of 2025 demonstrated their educational readiness while engaged in analyzing...

An hour-long professional development workshop on teaching the Korean War and containment with primary sources. Features experienced teachers. Materials and a complete lesson plan are also available.

An hour-long professional development workshop on teaching of emancipation with primary sources. Features experienced classroom teachers. Materials and a complete lesson plan are also provided

An hour-long professional development workshop on teaching the establishment of Jamestown with primary sources. Features experienced classroom teachers. Materials and a complete lesson plan are also provided.

An hour-long professional development video on teaching how the Lowell System was a departure from traditional labor practices. Features experienced classroom teachers. Materials and a complete lesson plan are also provided.

Are you looking for some problem solving activities to do with your class? Look no farther. This site includes games, worksheets, presentations in PowerPoint, and smartboard files.

Lots of useful teacher resources for making problem-solving easier and more fun for students. Includes games and worksheets.

Site provides information on how to best use the vast resources of the National Archives. Teach and study with primary resources, an excellent way to get in touch with history. Just for fun, click on "Sign the Declaration" for a chance...

Ken Burns and his collaborators have been creating historical documentary films for more than forty years. Known for a signature style that brings primary source documents, images, and archival video footage to life on screen, these...

An extensive selection of teacher resources to aide in teaching and reviewing addition and subtraction of two and three digit numbers, inverse operations, counting on, and other mental strategies for addition and subtraction. Resources...

A huge collection of teacher resources in basic multiplication and division. Information on multiplication as repeated addition and division as repeated subtraction. Includes worksheets, games, PowerPoint presentations, smartboard...

An hour-long professional development workshop on investigating the Chicago Exposition as a vision of America's future. Features experienced classroom teachers. Materials and a complete lesson plan are also provided.

Use screen captures to improve vocabulary and reach higher level thinking.

A large selection of teacher resources to help teach and review the concepts of rounding and estimating. There are many worksheets and a few PowerPoint presentations.

This is from an American history course designed for teachers to enrich their knowledge and their teaching practice. This interactive is a set of nine exercises where teachers evaluate primary resources related to a specific event in...

A great lesson plan that explores the attempts to revive the American economy after the Great Depression through the New Deal programs of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Included are a video, text and questions, and primary source materials. A...

This site presents projects for individual classrooms and collaborative projects that can be done with other classes or schools. Most of these are science projects.

This learning page features an overview of labor relations during the 1930s with links to many primary source documents from the era.

View an engraving and two photographs from U.S. history. As you view these resources, think about what you can identify and interpret through the images, and what kinds of questions you might generate if you were using these images to...