Primary Sources for the Interactive Whiteboard: Colonial America, Westward Movement, Civil War 60+ Whiteboard-Ready Documents With Background Information, Guiding Questions, and Interactive Activities to Help Students Gain a Deeper Understanding of Histor

by Baicker, Karen

• ISBN13: 9780545257930
• ISBN10: 054525793X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-01
• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching Strategies)

Summary

From the concise, austere Mayflower Compact to enterprising Gold Rush advertisements, this whiteboard-ready collection of authentic documents captures students' interest in the events and people of American history, spanning the colonial era through the late 1800s. Teaching materials provide background information, document-based discussion questions, and interactive whiteboard activities that help students analyze and evaluate each document and understand it in the context of its historical period. Includes a CD with Promethean ActivInspire files. For use with Grades 4-8.

Author Biography

Karen Baicker has written several social studies textbooks, including Communities: Adventures in Time and Place (McGraw-Hill, 2001). Her guides for teaching historical events include Immigration: Then and Now (Scholastic Professional Books, 1997). Other titles from her Primary Sources Teaching Kit series include Explorers, Immigration, and Civil Rights.