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Featured Resources
The Library's Education Department offers many helpful resources to teachers, students, parents, and members of the general public for use outside of the field trip program experience. These are intended to help students learn about the research process, the history of President Roosevelt's life and times, and to provide new and interesting ways to connect with the FDR Presidential Library and Museum.
Please visit the web pages especially for Students, Teachers, and Parents to find resources more targeted to age group and special interests. If you seek online resources developed for the adult research community, please visit the Archives portion of this website, specifically
Search Our Collections to begin your primary source research and More Online Resources to find bibliographies, timelines, and other features.
Choose from among the following links to explore these fun and engaging resources:
Information About the Roosevelts
Roosevelt Biographies
Read about the lives and careers of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. Find fast facts, chronologies, and Fala, the Roosevelt's famous dog. |
Roosevelt Pictures
Historical photographs of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Fala the dog, the Great Depression and World War II. These are selections from the Archives at the FDR Library. |
Roosevelt Facts and Figures
Answers to many of the frequently asked questions about the life and times of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. |
Document of the Month
One document selected from the Roosevelt Library Archives to highlight a special moment in history. Check back each month! |
Timelines
Chart the lives and careers of
Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Lady
Eleanor Roosevelt, and American
Presidents of the 20th Century.
Information About Researching
Document Based Questions (DBQs)
and Primary Sources
Most students are required to answer document based questions in their tests and assignments at school. Learn more about using primary sources for research.
The FDR Library Research Guide
A brief guide to help you organize yourself and your thoughts as you begin to plan and perform a research assignment. Topics include clarifying your task, getting started, using primary sources,
and more.
Ideas for Projects and Research Topics
Find a wide variety of broad topic ideas that you can narrow and refine then take to your teacher
for approval as a term paper or project topic. Once you've talked to your teacher,
Contact the Education Specialist
about finding primary source information for your research.
National History Day
National History Day culminates in a national contest each June after a series of competitions held first at the school, regional, and then state levels. Learn more about this competition and about the many resources available for student researchers at the FDR Library.
Innovative Ways of Teaching and Learning About the Roosevelt Era
Curriculum Guides
Using primary source documents, photographs, and accompanied by study questions and other resources from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library archives, the guides are designed for use by teachers of civics, citizenship, government, economics, geography, fine arts, history, writing and journalism. The curriculum guides can be effectively used by students from 3rd to 12th grade.
The Roosevelt Rap
Learning this rap is one of the coolest ways to remember the story of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Get the lyrics and then link to YouTube to watch the video. This page includes a list of questions to test your knowledge after learning the rap.
Periodic Table of the New Deal
Presents the major programs, players and events surrounding the New Deal. The table is designed to be used in a number of ways: as a visual depiction of the complexity and scope of these events; as a way introduce students to specific players and events; or as a comprehensive list of selections for further in-depth investigation.
Roosevelt Fun with Facts: games and activities
Creative and fun activities to learn and test your knowledge about presidential history. Includes orginal games like The New Deal Alpahabet Soup Descrambler, Design Your Own Bookplate, and Making Poetry from the Roosevelts.
Day By Day
An interactive online calendar of FDR's daily life in the White House that includes digitized archival content and multimedia. |
Borrow Films
The Pare Lorentz Center makes audiovisual resources on the Roosevelt era availabe to educators at no charge. |
Search Our Collections : Connect with the archival materials at the FDR Presidential Library, learn about our research services, or Ask the Archivist a research question.
More Online Resources : Find bibliographies, chronologies, Roosevelt genealogy, suggestions for primary source research, how to plan a research visit, and more.
