5 Awesome Websites To Boost Summer Learning. Is this what your kids are looking like by this time during the summer? The awesomeness of not going to school has worn off, they’re bored of their toys, and it’s too hot/cold/rainy/far away to go to the beach? When I was a kid, we played a lot of board games – limited to whatever we had that still retained all of the original pieces, or whatever some friends had.
Todays kids have a world of awesome stuff at their fingertips with the internet, so why not tap that to keep them busy, entertained, and learning at the same time? Here are a few suggestions for awesome websites that incorporate learning! BrainPop BrainPop offers a variety of fun brain teaser type games. Prongo Prongo offers both free and paid games for kids 3-12 (ish, broken down by age group appropriateness). National Geographic For Kids National Geographic For Kids offers kid-friendly information on travel/geography, plants and animals.
Learning Games For Kids PBS Kids. American Memory from the Library of Congress - Home Page. Library of Congress Home. New Deal Network. Rice University The Papers of Jefferson Davis. Primary Sources: Overview of Collections. One of the nation’s top collections of rare law books is housed in the Paskus-Danziger Rare Book Room of the Lillian Goldman Library at the Yale Law School. The collection is particularly strong in Anglo-American common law materials, including case reports, digests, statutes, trials, treatises, and popular works on the law. Other strengths include Roman and canon law, international law (especially the works of Hugo Grotius and Samuel Pufendorf), and early law books from most European countries. Of special interest ... Hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.Location: Sterling Law Building, 127 Wall St., Level L2, Room 003 Phone: 203 432-4494 Web site: (back to top)
Repositories of Primary Sources. Internet History Sourcebooks. Internet Ancient History Sourcebook The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook has expanded greatly since its creation, and now contains hundred of local files as well as links to source texts throughout the net. See Introduction for an explanation of the Sourcebook's goals. See the Help! Page for all the help on research I can offer. Although I am more than happy to receive notes if you have comments on this web site, I cannot answer specific research enquiries [and - for students - I cannot, or rather will not, do your homework.]
The Ancient History Sourcebook works as follows: This Main Index page [this page] shows all sections and sub sections. Additional Study/Research Aids In addition to the above structure, there are a series of pages to help teacher and students. Ancient History in the Movies Subjects covered by the source texts in each Section. Studying Ancient History The Ancient Near East Mesopotamia Egypt Persia Israel Greek Civilizations Greece The Hellenistic World Introduction. Curriculum. The Reading Like a Historian curriculum engages students in historical inquiry. Each lesson revolves around a central historical question and features sets of primary documents modified for groups of students with diverse reading skills and abilities. This curriculum teaches students how to investigate historical questions employing reading strategies such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading.
Instead of memorizing historical facts, students evaluate the trustworthiness of multiple perspectives on issues from King Philip's War to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and make historical claims backed by documentary evidence. I am so excited to find your website and your lessons. I will begin working with my students on learning how to read like a historian. As an 8th grade teacher I struggle getting my students interested in reading their American History textbook.
Karen Peyer, Teacher, Russell Middle School, Colorado Springs How do I use these lessons in my classroom? 1. Defining Primary and Secondary Sources - Toolkit - The Learning Centre. Archived Content This archived Web page remains online for reference, research or recordkeeping purposes. This page will not be altered or updated. Web pages that are archived on the Internet are not subject to the Government of Canada Web Standards.
As per the Communications Policy of the Government of Canada, you can request alternate formats of this page on the Contact Us page. Toolkit Defining Primary and Secondary Sources By Michael Eamon, historian and archivist, Library and Archives Canada Primary Sources Secondary Sources When Is a Primary Source Not a Primary Source? Libraries and archives hold objects, like documents and books, which help us to find out what happened in the past. Primary and secondary sources, when used together, help us to understand people, ideas and events from the past. Primary Sources People use original, first-hand accounts as building blocks to create stories from the past.
All of the following can be primary sources: Secondary Sources C.W. What do you think? Internet History Sourcebooks. Primary Sources for History & Literature Teachers - America in Class. History - Digital Education Resources | Documenting Democracy. The National Archives Experience | DocsTeach. The National Archives Experience | DocsTeach.