Lesson Plan
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George W. Bush Library: What Do Historical Objects Tell Me? [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A comprehensive lesson training students to analyze historical objects to determine features, reliability, authenticity, and provenance through observation skills encouraged through a variety of activities.
Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Postal Museum: A Student's Guide to Historical Research

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource focuses on teaching students how to do historical research via a series of steps. Historical photos and documents are included as examples.
Primary
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Usa Gov: u.s. History and Historical Documents

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Discover highlights from American history, including military events and founding documents.
Interactive
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

Teaching History: Interactive Historical Thinking Poster (Secondary)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an interactive historical thinking poster. History is an argument about the past. Constructing a narrative about history involves several tasks: Analyzing Primary Sources, Examining Source Information,Using Evidence to Support...
Handout
Other

National Council on Public History: Evidence of the Past

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Understand how historians are like detectives- studying evidence from the past.
Website
Other

Family Chronicle: Dating Old Photographs

For Students 9th - 10th
Family Chronicle provides information concerning photos from the 1850s-1900s. Details the background around the first photographs taken in the United States. Identifies what objects within the photograph can help determine the time...