Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Historical Thinking Interactives
Six interactive activities are presented that walk students through how to use their critical thinking skills in the analysis of historical artifacts and documents. The sixth one explains how to balance the various perspectives that...
University of California
Uc Irvine: Distinguishing Between Primary & Secondary Sources
This site has an online quiz to test your knowledge of primary and secondary sources.
Media Smarts
Media Awareness Network: Lesson Plan: How to Analyze the News [Pdf]
Lesson plan focusing on the importance of understanding how the news is a product with a specific scope, structure, slant and style at the forefront of its production.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Nonfiction and Reseach: "Choosing Nonfiction Sources" [Pdf]
This is the 20-page PDF "Choosing Nonfiction Sources." It provides informatation about various types of nonfiction: primary and secondary sources, reference works, databases, newspapers and periodicals, and nonfiction books; it also...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Historical and Cultural Contexts
This interesting interactive website explains kinds of primary sources and gives you the chance to identify them in some games.
Duke University
Duke University Libraries: Finding Primary Sources
Finding primary sources can be difficult and confusing at times. This site provides a list of history databases, rare books and manuscripts, and research guides for those looking for primary resources such as diaries, letters,...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Summarize Informational/expository Text
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn how to summarize main ideas, supporting details, and relationships among ideas within expository text.
Virginia Tech
Digital History Reader: Introduction
An online learning module for the U.S. and European history. Presents central questions of key events in history. Students explore data, evaluate conflicting accounts or interpretations, and develop conclusions based on primary evidence....
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese: Historical Treasure Chests
After learning to distinguish between primary and secondary sources, students will examine four primary documents and address a set of questions for each.
University of California
University of California, Davis: The History Project
The History Project is a growing collection of lesson plans, teaching tools, digitized images, and documents for the teaching of history. Includes assignments for having students apply analytical skills to primary sources.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Exploring a Research Topic and Identifying Relevant Sources
In this lesson, students learn how to plan their research, find relevant primary and secondary sources, and use those sources in your research papers. W.11-12.8 Sources/Integrate/Cite
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Gathering Appropriate Information (English Iii Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on finding and evaluating relevant sources for a research project. It includes primary and secondary sources and print and internet sources. W.11-12.2...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Discovery and Attribution
The research process can be daunting, but it doesn't have to be overwhelming! After you complete this self-guided unit, you will be well prepared to write a research paper. You will learn how to choose a topic, evaluate the reliability...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Teaching With Primary Sources
Five lesson plans, complete with videos, primary sources, and document-based questions (DBQ) to encourage students to utilize primary sources and incorporate thinking and writing into daily learning. Topics include: Artifact &...
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Determine the Central Idea: Human Impacts
Students will learn how to identify the central idea of a text about human impacts by examining key details.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Central Idea and Evidence: Sea Turtle Nesting
Students practice finding the central idea and summary of a nonfiction piece about sea turtle nesting.
Other
Using Sources Effectively
This site provides hints and guidelines on how to effectively use sources.
NBC
Nbc Learn
NBC Learn, the educational arm of NBC News, is dedicated to making historic stories, images, and primary source documents available on-demand to teachers, students, and parents.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Libraries: Library & Archival Exhibitions on the Web
This index of links offers the opportunity to explore important and interesting topics. Visiting links on the desired topic is most likely to provide primary sources or at least point students in the right direction.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian: Engaging Students With Primary Sources
This reference guide is designed to highlight the benefits of using primary source materials in any classroom and to provide the teacher with practical suggestions and examples of how to do this. It includes a bibliography and links to...
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
Truman Library & Museum: Incorporating Primary Sources in the Classroom
Students and teachers are given direction in how to work with the primary source materials of the Harry S Truman Presidential Library.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Source: Resources for Teaching American History: Primary Sources
A varied collection of primary resources from American history. They include portraits, banknotes, artifacts, newspaper items, paintings, and illustrations.
Other
Usa Gov: u.s. History and Historical Documents
Discover highlights from American history, including military events and founding documents.
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Teaching History: Doing History Is Like Solving a Mystery!
Use this interactive poster to explore how students understand history and find resources about teaching historical thinking to students.