US National Archives
Nara: Teaching With Documents: Images of the American Revolution
The National Archives and Records Administration provides a lesson plan on the American Revolution. Content includes excellent historical background, as well as several primary source documents, pictures, and engravings detailing various...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Working With Larger Numbers
Explore subtraction and addition but having student collect data from rolling objects. This instructional activity has students adding and subtracting numbers they collected using strategies used in class. Use the document and video...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Greenewables
Students form expert engineering teams working for the (fictional) alternative energy consulting firm, Greenewables, Inc. Each team specializes in a form of renewable energy used to generate electrical power: passive solar, solar...
Teaching American History
Teaching American History: Document Library: Louis Lomax Interviews Malcolm X
A complete transcript of an interview with Malcolm X from 1963, before he left the Nation of Islam, in which he explains his earlier-articulated condemnations of white America.
Library and Archives Canada
Nlc: Defining Primary and Secondary Sources
Libraries and archives hold documents and books that can be used for your research projects. Learn how to divide and identify them into primary and secondary sources in this tutorial.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Sample Homework Documents
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides several reproducible sheets with homework tips and instructions.
Historica Canada
Canada's National History Society: Fur Trade Stories: From 1600 1867
The main site is huge with interactive links to different time periods, archival documents, photos, and artifacts. This section focuses on the time period 1600-1867 which included the first interactions between First Nations and...