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US National Archives

Docsteach: The Constitution in Action: Article Ii (Lab Team 3)

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity young scholars will analyze the Senate Journal of the First Congress and identify how the document demonstrates content contained within Article II of the Constitution in action.
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Docsteach: The Constitution in Action: Article Iii (Lab Team 4)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity students will analyze the Opinion of the Court by Chief Justice Earl Warren in the Case of Miranda v. Arizona and identify how the document demonstrates content contained within Article III of the Constitution in action.
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US National Archives

Docsteach: The Constitution in Action: Article Iv (Lab Team 5)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity young scholars will analyze the Petition Against the Annexation of Hawaii and identify how the document demonstrates content contained within Article IV of the Constitution in action.
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US National Archives

Docsteach: Benjamin Franklin: Politician and Diplomat

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, learners will review and analyze the founding documents of the United States and understand Benjamin Frankin's contributions and connections to these founding documents. Franklin was the only man to help shape all of...
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US National Archives

Docsteach: Assimilation of American Indians

For Teachers 6th - 8th
For this activity, students will analyze primary sources to determine the role and activities the federal government undertook in an attempt to 'Americanize' or assimilate Native Americans.
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US National Archives

Docsteach: The Titanic Disaster: One Survivor's Story

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students will follow the story of one Titanic survivor, Lucy Ridsdale. A fifty year old nurse from Great Britain, Lucy would survive the Titanic disaster aboard lifeboat 13.
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Docsteach: Titanic Survivors: One Ship, Two Different Worlds

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This short analysis activity asks students to examine two claims filed by survivors of the April 15, 1912 Titanic disaster to understand the vast class differences between a first class passenger and a steerage passenger. Students will...
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Docsteach: Inevitable Accident or Wrongful Act: Judging the Titanic Disaster

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity asks students to analyze evidence presented in the 'In the Matter of the Petition of the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, Limited, for Limitation of its Liability as owner of the steamship TITANIC' case that began after...
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US National Archives

Docsteach: The Titanic Disaster: Measuring Loss of Life, Property and Injuries

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will analyze claims filed by survivors, families of victims and owners of cargo of the Titanic disaster. They will examine claims for loss of life, loss of property and injuries that were filed as part of 'In the Matter of the...