Using the National Archives Primary Sources Evaluation Worksheets

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Using the National Archives Primary Sources
Evaluation WorksheetsIdeas for Student
Products to Demonstrate Learning
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http//www.hcgs.net/logcabin.html
What do you see in these two pictures? Based on
what you see, what three things can you say about
each picture? What questions do you have about
the pictures? How could you answer your
questions?
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http//www.hcgs.net/logcabin.html
Why do you think these houses are made the way
they are? What advantages / disadvantages are
there to the way these houses are made? How is
the house you live in like these or different
from these? Why do you think that is?
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• Take two minutes to study the photograph. What
  objects can you see?
• Based on what you see, list three things you can
  infer from this photograph.
• What questions does this photograph raise in your
  mind?
• How could you answer those questions?

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• How did the invention of the Winchester repeating
  rifle change the west?
• Who benefited and how?
• Who lost and how?
• Support your answers with specific facts and / or
  details.

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Take two minutes to study the photograph. What
objects can you see? Based on what you see,
list three things you can infer from this
photograph. What questions does this photograph
raise in your mind? How could you answer those
questions?
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• How did the invention of the steam locomotive
  change things?
• Who benefited from the invention of new methods
  of transportation? In what ways?
• Who lost? In what ways?
• Support your answers with specific facts and / or
  details.

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Take two minutes to study the photograph. What
objects can you see? Based on what you see,
list three things you can infer from this
photograph. What questions does this photograph
raise in your mind? How could you answer those
questions?
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• How did the invention of barbed wire affect the
  west?
• Who benefited and how?
• Who lost and how?
• Support your answers
• with specific facts
• and / or details.

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Take two minutes to study the photograph. What
objects can you see? Based on what you see,
list three things you can infer from this
photograph. What questions does this photograph
raise in your mind? How could you answer those
questions?
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/06.jpg
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Take two minutes to study the photograph. What
objects can you see? Based on what you see,
list three things you can infer from this
photograph. What questions does this photograph
raise in your mind? How could you answer those
questions?
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hepicture.jpg
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After conducting research, ask students to
imagine themselves as 19th century child miners
before writing journal entries describing their
life.
Women and children miners. www.dudleyfamilypages.
20m.com
Drawing of Bradley Mine Bilston. http//www.wolve
rhamptonhistory.org.uk/work/industry/mining/bradle
y
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Have students research Fort Selden, including the
correspondence of James Henry Storey, then write
their own letter home to their family from the
perspective of a soldier describing their life.
Letters from Fort Seldon On This Day In New
Mexico History January 20, 1891
Fort Selden, NM 1875 http//newsnewmexico.blogs
pot.com/2011/01/on-this-day-in-new-mexico-history_
19.html