Since the Mass Moments website was launched on January 1, 2005, teachers have been using it to enhance their curriculum. There are many different classroom applications for the audio spots/scripts as well as for the background essays, timeline, map, links, and other resources available on the website (See "About the website" for details). Developed by the Mass Moments editorial staff in consultation with K-12 educators, Teachers Features makes it even easier for teachers to use this electronic collection of 365 stories from Massachusetts history.

Teachers' Features consists of three units for high school (HS I, HS II, and HS III), two for the upper elementary and middle-school level...

Since the Mass Moments website was launched on January 1, 2005, teachers have been using it to enhance their curriculum. There are many different classroom applications for the audio spots/scripts as well as for the background essays, timeline, map, links, and other resources available on the website (See "About the website" for details). Developed by the Mass Moments editorial staff in consultation with K-12 educators, Teachers Features makes it even easier for teachers to use this electronic collection of 365 stories from Massachusetts history.

Teachers' Features consists of three units for high school (HS I, HS II, and HS III), two for the upper elementary and middle-school level (E/MS I and E/MS II), and suggestions for using www.massmoments.org in third-grade classrooms, where Massachusetts history appears in the state frameworks for history and social science.

Each of the five units includes:

• Brief introduction to the topic
• Essential question
• Relevant Massachusetts state standard(s)
• Several lessons, with:
  • Key questions that students should be able to answer after completing the lesson.
  • Related Mass Moments.
  • Learning activities that require students to use Moments, documents, and other resources.
  • Primary sources with vocabulary and, in some cases, text-related questions. The documents are identified with the unit number, a dash, and then the number of the document (i.e. E/MS I-2), followed by a title.
  • List of suggested resources (In the elementary/middle school units, the resources are appropriate for teachers' use, not students'. Resources listed in the high school units are appropriate for both teachers and students.)