Congress Creates the Bill of Rights app is now available for Android devices.
Category: Teaching Activities & Lesson Plans
Space Race Teaching Activities
Students learn about the pioneering Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space programs that set the foundation for the modern space program and played an integral role in the Cold War.
Art as Propaganda in World War I
Two new WWI teaching activities introduce students to artists employed to show the war to Americans back home.
New DocsTeach Activity: Congress in Article I of the U.S. Constitution
Students match primary sources to clauses from Article I of the U.S. Constitution that detail six powers of Congress in our newest online activity.
100 Leaders in World History
Our partner National History Day invites students and people of all ages to vote for the best leaders in world history.
Congress Creates the Bill of Rights: iPad App and Educational Resource
Congress Creates the Bill of Rights, our new mobile app for iPads, allows students to explore the proposals, debates, and revisions that shaped the Bill of Rights.
National Archives Documents in New iPad App–The New Immigrants: NYC 1880-1924
Over thirty National Archives documents are part of a free educational app for the iPad called the New Immigrants: NYC 1880-1924. Created by the New York City Department of Education (via app developer Vanguard Direct), the app includes photographs, written documents, graphs and charts from the National Archives related to the topic of New York City … Continue reading National Archives Documents in New iPad App–The New Immigrants: NYC 1880-1924
The Importance of Treaties for Teaching American Indian History
Start teaching the history of a Native American tribe or tribes using American Indian Treaties and our online tools.
New Resources for Teaching the History of Native America
Our new webpages yield primary sources related to American Indians and teaching and research tools.
Ahoy Mateys! New Whaling Documents Come to DocsTeach this Month
Whaling is a major part of history! It offers windows into the past through music, art, mathematics, science, and geography.