Using Lincoln History in a Box

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Newark Public Schools

17 February 2010/Woestman

History in a Box

• Multimedia Materials

• Primary Source Documents

• Teaching Ideas

• Where do I start?

Flexibility

• No set way to use resources• Use YOUR professional judgment

• Remember some not all

• Let’s get started!

Visual

• Washington and Lincoln– On cardstock

• Mr. Lincoln’s War (Selected Letters, Photographs & Songs) -DVD– Overview

• Printed guide to what’s on there

– Songs– Photographs– Letters

• Vision of the Future

• Letters - Copies and Transcripts– Adapting for student learning– Underline terms students might need help

with– Essential Question/s

Other small DVD

• Digital copy of print book– Let’s work from the print book– Table of Contents– p. 169 – Questions

• Section 1, Question #8• P. 158

• Essential Questions– Review handout