It’s Thursday, April 26, 2018, and time for Social Sciences! Welcome to our newest Homeschool Resource
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Age Range: All (All grades; children with parental supervision)
This mobile-friendly website provides access to thousands of primary resources from the National Archives to use throughout your history studies.
In addition to this, this site also provides activity lessons, guides to using primary resources, and much more. If you would like to save and share primary resources and create your activities as well as gain access to hundreds of more educator-created businesses, you can register on the site for a free account.
To begin looking for resources, when you arrive at the home page, scroll a little to find the bar with three selection options:
- Explore – Use the keyword search engine to search the primary source database or browse by period or document type including textual document, photograph, video, audio, artwork, and artifacts, or poster.
- Discover – Locate created activities and lessons similarly to searching for a source, but visitors can further refine search results to grade level, thinking skill, and activity type.
- Create – To create an activity or lesson; you will need to register for a free account. Once this is done, use the tool to make your lessons, add elements, create instructions for students and teachers, and much more. There is a functionality to share your experiences with your students and others as well as have students email you their responses to questions and view those responses in a log in your account and is a powerful tool for creating your activities to use in your classroom.
This website provides many of the tools, instruction, and resources you might need to have to use primary resources in your classroom.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie, and David Cates
