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This section contains reproducible copies of primary documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States, teaching activities correlated to the National History Standards and National Standards for Civics and Government, and cross-curricular connections.

The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) provides a foundation for professional development for technology integration and a common vocabulary for talking about effective uses of technology in teaching and learning. The original 2005-2006 TIM included fifty example video lesson plans. The newly revised TIM was launched in February 2011, and features 100 classroom video example lesson plans, revised and expanded descriptions of student activity, teacher activity, and instructional settings for each TIM cell, focus pages for each characteristic and level, new professional development resources, and indices for grade levels and digital tools. The site includes 25 videos lesson examples in each of four core subject areas – math, science, language arts, and social studies. These lessons were videotaped in classrooms across Florida.

Discovery Education combines scientifically proven, standards-based digital media and a user community in order to empower teachers to improve student achievement. Free lesson plans written by teachers for teachers. Here you will find hundreds of original lesson plans for elementary, middle and high school students. Use them as they are or modify them to create your own.

Check out this site for great educational material -suggested Websites and lesson plans - in literature/language arts, art/culture, social studies/history and foreign language.

The National Science Digital Library includes a variety of educational resources to further STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education. Browse the science literacy maps, short science refreshers, free multimedia downloads, or subject area collections to find just what you need to enhance student learning!

The National Archives’ Digital Classroom offers a multitude of resources for the use of primary sources in the classroom. With access to copies of primary documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States, teachers can develop their own activities and lesson plans that make historical periods come alive for their students or choose from dozens of resources that have already been developed and are featured here.

Are you looking for a way to connect your students with great explorers and great events in Science? You do not have to look any further than The Jason Project! Their free online curriculum is designed primarily for the middle grades but can be adapted to fit any grade level.

Create "thinking guides" using Exploratree's endless options. You can fill in the guides online or print them out for student use--both options offer the option to save your work for future use. Thinking guides are divided into five broad categories for use by educators and students: map your ideas, solve problems, explore, analyse (they're British!), and different perspectives.

"Pompeii and the other ancient cities along the Bay of Naples destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE continue to spark our imagination just as they did when they were dug up in the eighteenth century. The excavation of so many well-preserved examples of ancient Greco-Roman civilization helped inspire the Enlightenment and an interest throughout the Western world in ancient art and design, classical philosophy, and literature."

"This activity explores the measurement of the amount of blood being pumped by a heart. The goal of this investigation is a rich exploration of rates of change and accumulation in context. As presented here, the measurement is done from a discrete perspective, but the generalization to a continuous perspective and use of calculus (integrals) can be done easily. The measurement is based upon two common problems: (1) a flow rate and accumulation problem and (2) a concentration problem. Given a flow rate, a concentration of ice water and a duration, how much ice water is pumped over the time interval? How can you determine the concentration of ice water by measuring the temperature of the mixture? The activity is separated into four parts. These four segments are available at the bottom of every page.

Math Content"

"Modeling the Situation  (applet)

An interactive environment is used to become familiar with the parameters involved and the range of results that can be obtained."

"The Genographic Project, a partnership of the National Geographic Society and IBM, is a five-year study to understand the human journey—where we came from and how humankind came to populate the planet. Led by population geneticist Dr. Spencer Wells and a team of international scientists, this unprecedented effort will map humanity's genetic journey through the ages. The project relies on the identification of genetic markers—occasional mutations to DNA that are passed on through generations. Different populations carry distinct markers. Following them through the generations reveals a genetic tree on which today's many diverse branches may be followed ever backward to their common African root. Scientists are collecting this data from people across the globe, particularly indigenous populations, before modern globalization further erodes the cultural groupings that could provide the geographical and historical context for interpreting the diverse genetic patterns."

Our oral tradition of telling ghost stories, with which most students are familiar, builds a useful bridge to the oral tradition of the ancient epic narrators. Students begin by examining ghost stories and brainstorming a list of qualities that make the stories vivid and interesting. They then use a literary elements map as they write a ghost story they have heard, but have never seen written, and then share their stories orally with the class. Finally, students explore the genre of epics and how they are related to oral storytelling. This lesson also includes support for English language learners.

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