Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Your Daily Learning Platform
An index to the Discovery Channel. Find resources for teachers, students, and even parents, from science experiments to math help, to virtual field trips.
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Society of Professional Journalists: Freedom of Info.
This resource is a great tool for journalists and non-journalists to obtain information from federal and local government sources. Access to this information can make or break a news story.
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New York State Library: Student Activity: Primary Versus Secondary Sources
Read about the Railroad Strike of 1877 using three excerpts from textbooks and three original newspaper articles. Compare and contrast the information in the primary and secondary sources.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Evaluating Resources
This page explains the need for evaluating resources and offers links to rules for evaluating primary, secondary, or tertiary resources and determining if resources are good or bad.
Education Development Center
Education Development Center: Tv411: Parts of a Newspaper
Students click through a lesson about the parts of a newspaper and answer questions about the types of articles found in each section, headlines, and captions that would go with photographs. Links to related videos are also provided.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Wake Up, America: Industrial Revolution in America [Pdf]
A lesson plan from the producers of the 16-episode PBS series "Freedom: A History of US" that looks at the technological advances of early nineteenth-century America and the birth of the Industrial Revolution in America.
University of Houston
University of Houston: Scholarly Journals Distributed via the World Wide Web
View an index of free online articles and journals which can be accessed without user registration at a website.
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Primary Research Through the History of Beverly
At Beverly High School in Massachusetts, students learn history through their own primary research on local history topics. This article and links from it explain how it's done.
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Fair: Retractions of Reporting Are Quite Selective
Interesting essay on the use of unnamed or anonymous sources, accuracy of reports, and retractions of innaccurate reports by major news outlets. Eye opener.
A&E Television
A&e History Channel Uk: Oil, the Hamill Brothers and Spindletop
Read about the Hamill brothers and their role in the discovery of oil at the Spindletop hill in Texas in 1901.
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: The Cleveland Massacre
The details surrounding the so-called "Cleveland Massacre," in which John D. Rockefeller bought up competitors' oil refineries, are set out here.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Common Pitfalls of Primary Research
Learn about the common mistakes made when reporting primary research findings.
Raleigh Charter High School
Mrs. Newmark's Page: The Industrial Revolution
Take this quiz to assess your knowledge on the industrial revolution.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Compare Primary and Secondary Sources
Learn how to analyze and compare the relationship between a primary and a secondary source.
Digital History
Digital History: Rockefeller's Millions [Pdf]
With the discovery of oil in Pennsylvania in the mid 1800s brought a boom to the economy. Read about the beginning of the oil industry, and particularly, John D. Rockefeller's role in it. See how his control of many parts of the...
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The Paleontological Research Institution: History of Oil: Spindletop, Pt. 1
Find out how the famous Lucas oil gusher on the Spindletop hill spurred the prolific oil industry in Texas.
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The Paleontological Research Institution: History of Oil: Spindletop, Pt. 2
More information about out how the famous Lucas oil gusher on the Spindletop hill spurred the prolific oil industry in Texas.
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How to Compile a Bibliography
This site provides basic guidelines and examples for how to compile a bibliography. Grade levels listed 1st through 6th.
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The Oil Industry: Spindletop
Links to several excellent sites on the Discovery of Oil at Spindletop. See many photos, primary documents, biographies, and a multimedia timeline.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Primary Research
Learn the difference between primary and secondary research as well as some different types of primary sources that can be used when gathering research.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: What Is Primary Research and How Do I Get Started?
Learn the difference types of primary sources and how to use them as a part of your research.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Industrial Revolution
In this lesson, 6th graders will come to understand how the Industrial Revolution impacted individuals.
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Central Michigan University: Website Research: Wikipedia References
This resource discusses the pros and cons of using Wikipedia as a research resource, and things to be cautious about. One thing the articles can often help with though is to give you a list of references as a good starting point to begin...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Approaches to Knowledge
An article addressing how knowledge is acquired from different media formats. The article also discusses how scholars from the past asked questions about knowledge and launched their own investigations.