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Start the New Year with Two New ActivitiesBy The Learning Page staffPublished on 10/07/2008 The Learning Page helps teachers start the new year off right with two new activities designed to provide guidance for using the American Memory historical collections with their students. “Zoom into Maps” and “Looking at Holidays Past” highlight the Library’s digital collections by focusing on specific types of primary sources. Navigate the New “Zoom into Maps” Activity Take your students on a trip through the landscape of historical maps with the new Learning Page activity, “Zoom into Maps”. This engaging activity showcases a sampling from the rich collection of digitized historical maps. Using the “MrSID” viewer, your students can zoom in to see detailed map sections as well as download and view the maps offline. “Zoom into Maps” explores maps through eight themed groups: local geography, exploration, migration, transportation, environment, military, pictorial, and unusual maps. The steps for analysis of a map are outlined and a graphic organizer is provided for students to record their analysis. Guiding questions help you to lead your students through the analysis of a featured map. Links to examples of other maps in the Library’s collections, suggestions for exploration of local geography, and links to additional geography Web sites expand the learning possibilities. Take your students out of the classroom and into the world...Zoom into Maps! Take a Peek at “Looking into Holidays Past” We all teach about holidays. Use the new Learning Page activity “Looking into Holidays Past” to help your students analyze what they see, hear and read in primary sources. Using four primary source media formats (documents, images, sounds, and movies), help your students hone their critical thinking skills. Each section uses a specific item to model the thought process of “observe, think, and ask”. Teach your students to think like historians as they analyze engaging, primary source historical materials from the Library of Congress. [send article to a friend] [print full article] [return to front page] |
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