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EDUCATOR-TESTED CONTENT STAND-BYES
* Timelines * Dewey Decimal Resources * Booklists * Regional Songs * Films by continent and genre and chronology | The Jewish Experience in Films * Literature through genres
* Boston Focus: maps and illustrations of colonial Boston * Boston photographs - Sections of Boston * Primary documents - classroom lessons
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CLASSROOM PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENTS
* Classroom-tested 1700s simulated Town Meeting * Dynamics of Literature Circles * Internationally-tested Travel Buddy Projects * Classroom-tested American Colonial 1700s Simulation and components * Classroom-tested interdisciplinary Revolutionary War Period unit * Student-created Mortuary Art * Student-created graphs using 1700s Negro Population Statistics * Original and adapted Reader's Theater resources * Online search to complete a Revolutionary War Period Scavenger Hunt
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TEACHER-CREATED CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT TOOLS
* Rubrics in the classroom
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CONNECTING GENEALOGY TO THE CLASSROOM
* Personal Dabbling in Genealogy
* Teaching Children Social Studies using 1635 Virginia and New England passenger lists
* Teaching Children Social Studies using Mortuary Art
* A Mathematical Study of Paul Revere's Family - Family Tree
* Boston's Ellis Island in East Boston | 1909 Immigration Service - George B. Billings letter | Immigration scans | 1904 waterfront detainees)
* Using the 1870, 1880, 1900 censuses to follow - Chinese in North Adams, MA
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VOLUNTEERING AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES AT BOSTON
* "Teaching with Documents" input:
* NARA Exhibit - Documented Rights and online resources
* A focus on immigration patterns
* Presenting the 54th Massachusetts Civil War Regiment
* Connecting Harriet Tubman, Lewis Hayden, Frederick Douglass - Tubman's Life
* The 1839 Amistad Civil Case
VOLUNTEERING AT THE COUNCIL ON AGING AT WALTHAM
* Book-to-Film, 2012-2018 Sessions - Resources for: Short Stories
* Meet Reel People, 2015-2017 character discussion.
* Nonfiction Book Discussion, 2019-2022 - includes nonfiction selections and content resources.
* The Playful Mind - components of a healthy brain lifestyle for staying sharp
* Brain Boosts - varied types of quick brain joggles
* Ongoing puzzles - the most current leisure fun
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CLASSROOM USE OF PRIMARY DOCUMENT TYPES
* 1635 Virginia and Massachusetts Passenger Lists
* 1600s Fishing station illustration
* 1765 Evidence of Boston women shopkeepers using their ads (Elizabeth Murray; Susanna Renken; Sarah DeCoster; Ann Thomas
* 1775 Depositions and Broadsides surrounding April 18, 1775 (Lexington Alarm)
* 1789 Boston Procession and 1790 Occupation of Boston Males Data
* Apprentice system to Industrial Revolution
* Boston's Black Initiatives to Freedom, 1800s
* 1818 Boston City Directory - North Slope of Beacon Hill
* 1839 Amistad Habeas Corpus Warrant
* 1850 Boston U. S. Census (Ellen and William Craft)
* 1854 Waltham, Massachusetts - Waltham Watch Works
* 1870 North Adams Shoe Factory Strike (Calvin T. Sampson and the 75 Chinese shoemakers)
* 1888 Harriet Tubman Affidavit
* 1900 Waltham Canoeing along the Lakes Region
* 1900 U. S. Census Showing Children at Work in Boston
* 1913 Child Labor Law campaign - posters and photographs of Lewis Hine
* 1913 Certificate of Death - Boston Newsboy Dies
* 1939 Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market area linocut (WPA project)
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Insights about life in WALTHAM, MA
* Waltham Watch Factory Exhibit
* Noted people of Waltham
* Planning of Wellington Crossing - former Middlesex Tuberculosis Hospital site (local newspapers)
* Classroom resources about Waltham's history
* 1854 Waltham, Massachusetts - The Factory with 7500 Windows
* 1900 Waltham - Recreation along the Charles River - No Kissing in Canoes
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* Inquiry Unlimited's educational practitioner * Practitioner's Boston as a Classroom
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