This resource motivates students to interact with and analyze primary sources on screen, building their historical understanding and bringing history to life.
From the concise, austere Mayflower Compact to enterprising Gold Rush advertisements, this whiteboard-ready collection of authentic documents captures students' interest in the events and people of American history, spanning the colonial era through the late 1800s. Teaching materials provide background information, document-based discussion questions, and interactive whiteboard activities that help students analyze and evaluate each document and understand it in the context of its historical period.
- Includes a CD with Promethean ActivInspire files.
- Gets students motivated to learn about American history!
- Helps meet social studies standards for analyzing primary sources.
- Includes interactive timelines, maps, and more!
Karen Baicker has written several social studies textbooks, including Communities: Adventures in Time and Place (McGraw-Hill, 2001). Her guides for teaching historical events include Immigration: Then and Now (Scholastic Professional Books, 1997).
Other titles from her Primary Sources Teaching Kit series include Explorers, Immigration, and Civil Rights.