Thursday, April 30, 2009 Known as La Escuela Electrónica (the
Electronic Schoolhouse), the new web resource will be available
in English and Spanish. La Escuela Electrónica examines the
Latino experience in New York through photographs, letters,
broadsides, flyers, and more dating from 1861 to the present.
Bilingual 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. Within
the website, documents are organized by topics selected to
correlate to New York’s learning standards: immigration, labor
unions, biography, civil rights, culture, urbanization, etc.
Many items 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 An additional feature for
teachers, the "Build Your Own Worksheet"