HYDE PARK – The FDR Presidential Library is providing assistance to teachers and students with free online activity resources on a weekly basis.
The library is instituting programs to help teachers who are shifting to online classroom scenarios as well as their home-based students.
With material appropriate for students grades 4-12.
This guide is based on fourteen short films that cover the period of time ranging from the pre-war era to the founding of the United Nations. It includes activities to help students develop their critical thinking and use multiple sources to gain a deeper and more nuanced understanding of history. The guide includes multiple primary sources ranging from political cartoons to fireside chats, historic speeches, maps, telegrams, and photographs.
Additional program guides are available here: All Online Guides».
The library is also making additional resources available for educators.
The study of history and social studies in schools today is based on primary source documents and document-based questions. This section of FDRLibrary.org explains this in detail.
Students can find additional information here:
Research can be fun when presented to students, not as an assignment for class, but rather a challenge to make a discovery.
The study of history and social studies in schools today is based on primary source documents and document-based questions. This section of FDRLibrary.org explains this in detail. Informationcanbefoundhere:
