I’m always on the hunt for beautiful, open-ended materials for my classroom, both for free play and for CE. I teach older toddlers (two years turning three) in a full-time children’s center. What have you stumbled across lately that really caught …
There is another great resource at: http://www.shorpy.com/ The site includes thousands of mostly black and white photographs in high-resolution digital form. They are arranged in galleries like: Civil War Dust Bowl Japanese American Relocation Kids (this includes child labor images) …
Here’s a great website for primary sources about the exploration of North America: http://www.americanjourneys.org This is some of what they say about themselves: American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas …