National+Archives+Experience+and+Docs+Teach

[|The National Archives Experience: Digital Vaults] and [|DocsTeach] The National Archives has put together an amazing site where students can create digital content with primary resources. Students can search photographs, documents, and other records and collect them. Students can use collected items to create their own digital poster or to make a movie. Students can also create a Pathway Challenge. In a challenge, students create a series of clues that show relationships between photographs, documents and other records. Others can take part in these Pathways Challenges. There are also ready made challenges that students can take part in, I just took the Lincoln challenge. Clues are given and students have to find a record that matches the clue. This is a truly incredible way for students to interact with history. The Pathway Challenges are like virtual field trips through history. Digital Vaults does not specify an age to use the site; however, you must have an email address to save work on the Digital Vaults. If your students don’t have a school email address, they can use a temporary email address to sign on with, or a classroom email address.
 * = ==General Description == ||= [|The National Archives Experience: Digital Vaults]

[|Docs Teach] is an amazing Web Tool that helps to make History come to Life. Each of the several activity-creation tool helps students develop historical thinking skills and gets them thinking like historians. Teachers simply find and insert primary sources into a customizable and very slick template in order to customize the activity to fit their unique students. This is one of those awesome sites that make teaching easier and more fun while exciting the students and engaging them to learn at the same time. || All sources are based on US history, but the site is massive and just amazing. Can be used to supplement almost any history and Language Arts classes. Also includes a very handy Blooms Taxonomy Guide to provide you insight on the activities provided. || The Pathway Challenges arelike virtual field trips through history. Digital Vaults does not specify an age to use the site; however, you must have an email address to save work on the Digital Vaults. If your students don’t have a school email address, they can use a temporary email address to sign on with, or a classroom email address. ||
 * = ==Teacher/Student Use == || Find and create interactive learning activities with primary source documents that promote historical thinking skills.
 * = ==Things to Know Before You Go == || All sources are based on US history, but the site is massive and just amazing. Can be used to supplement almost any history and Language Arts classes.
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