Using the National Archives Primary Sources Evaluation Worksheets & Ideas for Student Products to Demonstrate Learning

What do you see in these two pictures? Based on what you see, what three things can you say about each picture? What questions do you have about the pictures? How could you answer your questions?

Why do you think these houses are made the way they are? What advantages / disadvantages are there to the way these houses are made? How is the house you live in like these or different from these? Why do you think that is?

Take two minutes to study the photograph. What objects can you see? Based on what you see, list three things you can infer from this photograph. What questions does this photograph raise in your mind? How could you answer those questions?

How did the invention of the Winchester repeating rifle change the west? Who benefited and how? Who lost and how? Support your answers with specific facts and / or details.

Take two minutes to study the photograph. What objects can you see? Based on what you see, list three things you can infer from this photograph. What questions does this photograph raise in your mind? How could you answer those questions?

How did the invention of the steam locomotive change things? Who benefited from the invention of new methods of transportation? In what ways? Who lost? In what ways? Support your answers with specific facts and / or details.

Take two minutes to study the photograph. What objects can you see? Based on what you see, list three things you can infer from this photograph. What questions does this photograph raise in your mind? How could you answer those questions?

How did the invention of barbed wire affect the west? Who benefited and how? Who lost and how? Support your answers with specific facts and / or details.

Take two minutes to study the photograph. What objects can you see? Based on what you see, list three things you can infer from this photograph. What questions does this photograph raise in your mind? How could you answer those questions?

Take two minutes to study the photograph. What objects can you see? Based on what you see, list three things you can infer from this photograph. What questions does this photograph raise in your mind? How could you answer those questions?

After conducting research, ask students to imagine themselves as 19 th century child miners before writing journal entries describing their life. Drawing of Bradley Mine Bilston. Women and children miners.

Have students research Fort Selden, including the correspondence of James Henry Storey, then write their own letter home to their family from the perspective of a soldier describing their life. Fort Selden, NM – Letters from Fort Seldon On This Day In New Mexico History – January 20, 1891