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Teaching Resources for Your Classroom

Colonial Williamsburg offers a variety of quality materials to assist you in teaching American history, including:

VIRTUAL REPUBLIC AND CURRENT EVENTS
www.ideaofamerica.org

This free website allows students to educate themselves on current event issues through carefully curated news articles and then take a stand and debate and discuss the issues with other classrooms around the nation. Includes lesson strategies to help students compare the present to the past.

For more information, call 1-800-761-8331 or email eftsupport@cwf.org.

PRIMARY SOURCES CD-ROMS

These fascinating CD-ROMs will introduce your students to the artifacts, written documents, prints, buildings, and other sources that historians use to uncover the past. The Grades 1-3 CD-ROM provides an interactive experience with primary sources. The Grades 4-6 CD-ROM encourages students to analyze and evaluate evidence. In no time, you'll have your students "thinking like a historian!" Teacher lesson plans and classroom activities included. Mac or PC.

The grades 1-3 CD-ROM provides an interactive experience with primary sources. $39.95.
The grades 4-6 CD-ROM encourages students to analyze and evaluate evidence. $39.95.

To order, call 1-800-761-8331 or email eftsupport@cwf.org.