I'm excited! While I was other fun activities/assignments for my online module I stumbled upon this amazing site called The National Archive:Docs Teach. It allows social studies (history) teachers to pair their assignments/activities with primary documents. There is a print feature for the documents so teachers can use it in their classrooms as well as online.They provide templates and guidelines how to make an activity too. This appeals to me on two fronts. My history nerdy self and my future teaching self. Only I have two regrets. Where was this when I needed something for my Tech Overview and why didn't I find this sooner? Oh, well the wealth of information and the activities create so many possibilities.
This will be an amasing tool someday for my classroom. However, in the meantime I wonder if I can use it for my studying history needs. It's worth the exploration. So many interests so little time.
I wonder if Leonardo Da Vinci ever said those words? He had so many different interests how did he make time for them all? Anyways, I am currently delving into his world for a research project. That's the best part about history. Historians are almost like detectives. We look at sources primary and secondary as if they were clues. Clues into a society apart from the modern world but at times we find that the chronicles of yester-year are prefaces to how we perceive our own lives. For example what would life be like in America if we hadn't won the American Revolution? What would be our citizenship status/identity entail?
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