Bring History Alive with Primary Source Documents!

摘要

DocsTeach is a free app from the National Archives that provides access to thousands of primary source documents. They are divided by topic and era and include letters, diaries, drawings, maps, photographs, official state documents, and more. Using primary resources and the included lesson seeds, students in my fifth grade class studied the meaning of the Declaration of Independence, questioned whether it was treasonous for the colonies to break away from British rule, examined the contributions of Benjamin Franklin, and scrutinized the relationships between the Native American nations and the settlers.