Today is the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. To celebrate the anniversary, documentarian Ken Burns, along with numerous partners, has launched a national effort to encourage everyone in America to video record themselves reading or reciting the speech.The collection of recordings housed on this site will continue to grow as more and more people are inspired by the power of history and take the challenge to LEARN THE ADDRESS.

Here is another  great site to help use primary sources and technology in your classroom. The U.S. National Archives Experience Digital Vaults  offers your class a good introduction to discovering and working with primary source materials. Digital Vaults focuses on a curated collection of 1,200 items. On the site, there are activities designed to help students discover important connections between primary sources. One activity  Pathways Challenges, provides quizzes that ask students to analyze a specific resource and then find the related document within the collection. You can also use the resources to create your own quizzes and students can use the resources for projects. Click below for Revolution sources:

If you would like to learn more about using primary sources, contact me.

Happy tech trails Blue Devils!