The National Archives provides primary source sets, educator resources and articles, and printable primary sources analysis sheets. This page on the site outlines how to analyze primary source documents. Document analysis is the first step in working with primary sources. Teach your students to think through primary source documents for contextual understanding and to extract information to make informed judgments.

The purpose of this lesson is to assist student exploration of several of the primary source documents related to the creation of the executive branch. Through independent reading followed by a round robin assignment and an essay to explore current application of executive power, students will develop their historical inquiry skills and understand the scope and meaning of executive power under the U.S. Constitution.

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In this episode of Art School, visit Paccarik Orue in the studios of Rayko Photo Center where he is currently an Artist-In-Residence. Tag along with Orue as he makes photographs in the Iron Triangle neighborhood of Richmond, California. From 2009-2011, Orue photographed residents and structures there for his book titled, There Is Nothing Beautiful Around Here.

Orue also introduces us to his latest body of work, which is centered in the city of Cerro de Pasco in his home country of Peru. Cerro de Pasco is one of the highest cities in the world, perched atop the Andean Mountains. Even though he has returned to his homeland, Orue feels like an outsider.

In the second video, learn how to scan, clean and color-correct medium format film, as Orue demonstrates the necessary steps for digitizing color film negatives.

This 1946 federal court ruling marked a victory for Mexican Americans and chipped away at the separate but equal doctrine, declaring segregated schools based on national origin unconstitutional.

This is a project for Spanish 2 that is the culmination of a unit on reflexive verbs/daily routines. To show their understanding of reflexive verbs and speaking about routines, students will use iMovie to create a "day in the life" video describing their routines. This lesson is intended to be used with iPads, specifically with the applications Pages and iMovie. Creative Commons image credit: "film" by popturfdotcom is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

In this activity, students analyze various primary documents related to presidential decisions. After examining the documents, they determine which president was involved and place the document on a map. They decide if decisions made were part of domestic or foreign policy. Through discussion and analysis, students are led to understand that the decisions a president makes are part of his legacy. Requires a basic knowledge of key historical events. Online resource, includes discussion questions. Complex.

Provide excerpts from Montesquieu's, ÒSpirit of LawsÓ, the Magna Carta, the Mayflower Compact, and the English Bill of Rights. Have students read and summarize each excerpt and then have them identify and describe a key Constitutional principle found in the excerpt. This is a discussion of where did the ideas possible come from. For example the English Bill of Rights is a good example of separation of powers and checks and balances, as it describes things the King is not allowed to do without the consent of Parliament. Some of the excerpts require a good understanding of the context to really understand the principle so that may be required as part of the reading. A document analysis worksheet from the national archives Text/HTML may be a good tool as students are reading the document.

AI has the amazing capability to generate art, images and even complete video sequences but does it have actual creativity and imagination? And how does this type of AI work? Learn more about how AI is able to generate art including images we've never seen.

The students will predict if these items will float or sink. Coke, Diet Coke, and Diet Caffeine Coke.

Everyone makes mistakes, but oftentimes we feel embarrassed about them. Your class will take a big step forward in being comfortable taking risks and making mistakes!

Inquiry based lesson plan allows kids to explore governments around the world: who is in charge, how they are chosen, and what happens when leaders make unfavorable choices. Includes supporting questions, articles, and activities.

A New York Times columnist worries that programs like ChatGPT threaten the future of writing — and the benefits and joys of excelling at it. Do you agree?

Students will learn the potential costs and benefits of social media, digital consumption, and our relationship with technology as a society in the three-week lesson. This inquiry based unit of study will answer the following questions:

Essential Question: How can we use science fiction’s ability to predict the future to help humanity?

Supportive Questions 1: What predictions of future development has science fiction accurately made in the past? This can include technology, privacy, medicine, social justice, political, environmental, education, and economic.

Supportive Question 2: What predictions for future development in contemporary science fiction are positive for the future of humanity? What factors need to begin in your lifetime to make these predictions reality?

Supportive Question 3: What predictions for future development in contemporary science fiction are negative for the future of humanity? What factors need to begin in your lifetime to stop these negative outcomes?

(Thumbnail is a screenshot of the OER Commons lesson page, taken 7/26/2022 by Christina Nelson.)

Watch a video of a first grader reading correctly, smoothly, and at a natural speed.

Watch a video of a second grader fluently reading. She reads smoothly, at a natural speed, and with expression.

This task asks students to write a proof that applies the properties of parallel lines and congruent triangles to prove a parallelogram property. It can be used in the classroom as an individual, small group, or whole-group practice problem or as an assessment question. More examples of its use in the classroom can be found in the "Public Remarks" section below. Illustrative Mathematics provides this summary: "This is a reasonably direct task aimed at having students use previously-derived results to learn new facts about parallelograms, as opposed to deriving them from first principles. The solution provided (among other possibilities) uses the SAS triangle congruence theorem, and the fact that opposite sides of parallelograms are congruent."

Watch this video to determine if your 1st grader shows understanding when read.