Applications for Education.

Todays Document website released by the U.S. National Archives. Every early morning Todays Document features a brand-new image or document from the archives. Many of the time I just used the included artifacts to stimulate little conversations about minutes in history.

A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the importance of helping students recognize the differences between main and secondary sources. If you missed out on that post, you can.
read it here..

When I was teaching U.S. History I utilized both of the resources regularly. Often I d use, with modification, the lesson strategies connected with the artifacts. The majority of the time I simply used the included artifacts to trigger little conversations about moments in history.

Previously this week I was catching up on some RSS feeds in
Feedly when I encountered
this drawing from the patent application for the parlor game that became
Monopoly. That illustration was the included artifact of the day on the
Todays Document website published by the U.S. National Archives. When I taught U.S. History, its a resource that I regularly utilized. Every morning Todays Document includes a brand-new image or document from the archives. The documents are normally accompanied by some additional research study links and lesson strategy resources..

The Library of Congress offers a day-to-day artifact feed similar to the one offered by the National Archives..
Today in History from The Library of Congress offers a brand-new image or file together with the story of the significant event or person connected to it. The LOC normally consists of more details about the included artifact than what the National Archives includes about their day-to-day files..