Sample_project_resources

Worksheets for primary source analysis: http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/index.html

Letters from WWII http://www.history.com/minisites/dearhome/

Letters from WWI http://www.history.com/minisites/letters

Experiencing War - from Library of Congress Stories from vets from lots of wars. Amazing. Text, video interviews, letters, drawings, etc. http://www.loc.gov/vets/stories/index.html

Project Topic: Food Supply

Rutherford Gardens Site (I think this is WW I) http://www.rutherford-gardens.com/american-gardeners.html

Freedom From Want Poster http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/powers_of_persuasion/four_freedoms/images_html/freedom_from_want.html

Homefront gallery from American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/homefront/about.html Posters in this collection: Share the meat poster: **TITLE:**Americans! Share the meat as a wartime necessity Victory Farm poster: **TITLE:**Be a victory farm volunteer in the U.S. Crop Corps--See your principal The Fruits of Victory Your Sugar Ration is 2 lb. per month Get Behind the Girl He Left Behind (hoeing) and lots more food posters we can use

Photo of school children planting war garden: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/cdn:@field(NUMBER%2B@band(ichicdn%2Bn070397

Photo of soldier writing letter home: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@field(NUMBER%2B@band(fsa%2B8d22327 Photo of VMail system http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@field(NUMBER%2B@band(fsa%2B8b08023

Music for show? http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/ihas/service/patriotic/100010387/100010387.mp3

Great resources for working with primary sources: http://www.primarysourcelearning.org/

Sample Questions from the Activity Maker:
 * 1) What's going on?
 * 2) What do you see that makes you say that?
 * 3) Repeat answering Steps 1 and 2.
 * 4) Make a claim about the source.
 * 5) Identify things you see, feel, and know that support your claim.
 * 6) Ask a question related to your claim.
 * 7) What might the creator of this source perceive?
 * 8) What might the creator of this source know about or believe?
 * 9) What might the creator of this source care about?
 * 10) Where might this picture have been taken? What makes you think that?