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The Online Classroom is designed to help educators use photographs, documents, sound recordings and film footage from the State Library and Archives of Florida.

The Online Classroom also showcases collaborative projects between the State Library and Archives of Florida and Florida schools. These projects help students make a personal connection to the primary source documents that tell the stories of their communities.


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  Exhibits With Lesson Plans  

Exhibits with Lesson Plans

Photographs and documents from the State Library and Archives of Florida are placed together with background information and lesson plans correlated to the Sunshine State Standards. Lesson plans focus on Florida History, U.S. History, and using primary source materials in Language Arts.

 
  2010 Florida History Fair   2010 Florida History Fair
Innovation in History: Impact and Change


This is a list of resources available online from the State Library and Archives of Florida relating to the suggested Florida History Fair topics. Additional resources are available at the State Library and Archives of Florida in Tallahassee.
 
  View From the School: Florida Then & Now  

View From the School: Florida Then & Now

This project documents change in Florida cities, towns, communities and landscapes from a student perspective. Art teacher Polly Werner, in collaboration with the State Archives of Florida, conducted the pilot project with her third grade class at Dr. N. H. Jones Elementary School in Ocala, Florida.

 
  Writing Around Florida  

Writing Around Florida

"Writing Around Florida" uses selected photographs from the Florida Photographic Collection as writing prompts.

The writer is guided through the step-by-step process of writing and saving their response.

 
  Black  History Month At the State Archives of Florida  

Black History Month
At the State Archives of Florida

This is a list of resources available online from the State Library and Archives of Florida relating to Black History Month.

 
  Voices of Florida  

Voices of Florida

These audio clips are take from a Florida Folklife Collection series of audio recordings (S1576). This series includes recordings of performances by or interviews with folk musicians, crafters, storytellers, and folklife interpreters. Together, the recordings document such areas as children's lore, religious traditions, Seminole culture, maritime traditions, ethnic folk culture, material culture, and occupational lore.

 
  Film and Video Clips  

Film and Video Clips

These short clips from fifty films and videos date from 1916 to the 1980s and cover a variety of topics including education, environment, family life, industry, integration, politics, and World War II.

 
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Conjunto Aventura   2010 Florida History Fair   Common Ground
Conjunto Aventura
Norteño, sometimes also called Norteña or Conjunto, literally translates to the word “northern,” referring to the region of northern Mexico and present day southern Texas where the musical style originated.
  Resources for the 2010 Florida History Fair
This is a list of resources available online from the State Library and Archives of Florida relating to the suggested Florida History Fair topics.
  See the "Common Ground" slideshow!
This presentation is part of “Common Ground,” a global event consisting of museums, galleries, and archives worldwide showing the same slideshow of photographs in public spaces on the same weekend (October 2-3, 2009).

 


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Resources for the 2010 Florida History Fair
This is a list of resources available online from the State Library and Archives of Florida relating to the suggested Florida History Fair topics.
Additional Resources at the State Library and Archives of Florida