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Category: Teaching Activities & Lesson Plans
Constitution Day: Application in the Classroom
Take ideas for classroom activities from these Constitution Day family activities at the National Archives.
Poetry Slam: A Different Way to Use Primary Sources
Students assemble key sentences from primary sources into poems to tell a larger story.
Congress Creates the Bill of Rights
Introducing Congress Creates the Bill of Rights, consisting of: an eBook, a mobile app for tablets, and online resources for teachers and students.
Constitution Day is September 17!
Celebrate and learn more about our Federal Government’s founding document with these activities and resources.
Why Did We Need a New Constitution?
For Constitution Day, your students can see the economic problems of the Articles of Confederation by reading this petition.
New DocsTeach Activity: The Night Before D-Day
We commemorate the 70th anniversary with an activity focusing on two documents related to the Allied invasion of June 6, 1944.
The First Act of the First Congress
The First Congress faced numerous tasks, but one thing was so important that it was the first act signed into law.
Teaching with Artifacts: What Edith Galt Wilson’s Suit Can Teach Students about World War I and Women in America
Students feel like detectives on a mission to discover what they can learn about history when they learn with artifacts.
National Teacher Appreciation Day #ThankATeacher
#ThankATeacher today for National Teacher Appreciation Day!