Tech Thursday: Transform Your Students into Historians with DocsTeach.org

Instead of passively receiving information, teach your students to analyze historical documents and become an investigator and synthesizer of information found in historical images.

The National Archives docsteach.org/tools offers seven free tools that educators can use to create interactive learning activities based on any primary source in the National Archives.

The Seven Tools Are:

• Finding a Sequence
• Focusing on Details
• Making Connections
• Mapping History
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Weighing the Evidence
• Interpreting Data

You can view activities that teachers have created and shared, or create your own activity. The site also has a blog and Facebook page to follow.

Check out some of the themed DocsTeach pages:

• Teaching with the Records of Congress
• National History Day 2013 Turning Points in History
• Revolution and The Founding of the Nation
• Civil War
• 1970s America
• Turning Points in the Nixon and Ford Years
• What’s Cooking Uncle Sam?