Here's a great new resource! http://www.archives.nysed.gov/projects/escuela/eng/eschool_about.shtml
The Electronic Schoolhouse is a bilingual educational resource from the New York State Archives, the Archives Partnership Trust, and Time Warner that focuses on using historical records as learning tools in elementary, middle and secondary education. Classroom teachers developed the content to correlate with the New York State Learning Standards.
Available in English and Spanish, The Electronic Schoolhouse examines the Latino experience in New York through photographs, letters, broadsides, flyers, and more dating from 1861 to the present. Introductory videos explain how teachers can use such primary sources in their classrooms and the kinds of institutions that care for these one-of-a-kind materials.
Nine institutions from around the state (see below) contributed their documents to this project to bring a Latino perspective to events on the local, state and national levels.
The documents are organized by topics selected to correlate to New York’s learning standards: immigration, labor unions, biography, civil rights, culture, urbanization, etc. Those with an (*) include historical background information, focus questions, the appropriate learning standards and key ideas, a historical challenge, interdisciplinary activities, and a list of additional resources. Some documents include multiple pages; these carry a link to a printable PDF.
The "Build Your Own Worksheet" option allows you to print a worksheet for each image. You can select or deselect exactly what information you want to accompany the image. For example, you can choose to print a soldier’s World War I service card with the caption, historical background information, questions, and other information that is provided. Or, you can customize the printout by including only certain portions of the information from the website. You can also edit and/or write in your own caption, historical background information, and questions for each image.
The Electronic Schoolhouse combines historical records and technology to promote the development of critical thinking skills (analyzing and interpreting information), reading and writing skills, understanding historical content and context, and may be used for a range of purposes for foreign language, English as a second language and bilingual education proficiency.
Hope you enjoy using it! Mirla