Document Based Activities for the Middle Grades; - Tapa blanda

BOOK 1 COVERS THE FOLLOWING TOPICS: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, WESTWARD EXPANSION AND WOMAN SUFFRAGE. U.S. History Document-Based Activities is divided into three sections: The American Revolution, Westward Movement, and Woman Suffrage. Each section contains background information on the topic, a variety of primary sources, and challenging activities to help you integrate the artifacts into your curriculum. Through these activities, students will improve their abilities to analyze, create, discuss, hypothesize, and evaluate. These are skills that are required in state standardized tests. They are also skills that are needed by all citizens to meet the many complexities of the twenty-first century. Included are letters, historical documents, diary excerpts, photos, cartoons, art, maps, ads, and other artifacts that are classified as primary sources. By learning how people of the periods actually felt, students will better understand the people and events that shaped the history of our nation. Grades 5-8.