Landmarks for Schools: Social Studies Resources
A plethora of online social studies resources annotated with full descriptions and suggested classroom use
Some resources that stood out to me:
Ad Access:
The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
In your classroom:
As students are studying different decades during the 20th century, they might be asked to desktop publish a magazine for those years including articles, photographs, and creative writing. To add color or atmosphere to the publication, students might download and include ads from the decade from this database. In media literacy studies, students might be asked to identify the approaches that various ads are using to promote their ideas.
Early America Archive
This site features documents from early America including maps, newspapers, historic documents. In most cases the material is digitized images, but some text files are available.
In Your Classroom:
The images of this site can be download, printed, and used on a classroom bulletin board during a study of the United States' early years.
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