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The Federalist Defense of Diversity: Extending the Sphere
How did early Americans ensure expansion while also securing the rights of citizens? Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, two of our early leaders, considered the problem of faction to be the "mortal disease" that created unstable...
Curated OER
Propaganda, WWII, Ghetto‘s, and Analysis of Primary Resources
Students consider the implications of anti-Semitism. In this World War II lesson, students examine selected documents and images featuring the propaganda that promoted Jewish persecution. Students write essays that highlight how the Nazi...
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African Americans in Aviation: The 1940s- A Decade of Change
Learners investigate African Americans in aviation. In this primary resources lesson plan, students examine primary resources to research the history of African American in aviation. Learners answer two research questions and write an...
Curated OER
Letters from the Japanese American Internment
Young scholars delve into primary research. In this Japanese Internment lesson plan, students make deductions about life in an internment camp by reading and comparing letters written to Clara Breed. Along the way, they consider the...
Curated OER
Forced to Flee: Famine and Plague
Students examine facts about the Irish Potato Famine and explore primary resources, such as newspaper articles, photographs, songs, and poems, related to the famine. Once research is complete, they create a small collage of their...
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North Platte Canteen and World War II
Students employ primary resources to investigate the rise and decline of a canteen in World War II. The significance of volunteerism and the use of the railroad for troop transportation are examined.
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South Korea
Students use primary and secondary resources in order to investigate the culture of South Korea. They use guiding questions that progressively lead them to higher order thinking to make connections from the information to how people live.
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Legends Coming to Life
Students prepare an essay that reflect their knowledge of World War II, acquired through research.
Library of Congress
Loc: For Teachers: Classroom Materials Using Primary Sources
This excellent teacher resource features lessons that use primary source documents in an engaging way. Included are lesson plans created by teachers, themed resources, primary source sets, presentations and activities, and collections...
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Personal Stories and Primary Sources
Young scholars will explore the value of personal stories and first-hand accounts when exploring history, in this case, the events of the early twentieth century, which included World War I and the Great Depression. Through this...
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: History Through Primary Sources
This site from the Medieval Sourcebook answers the question: Why Study History Through Primary Sources? It provides complete information, a list of review questions, and bibliography information.
US National Archives
Nara: National Archives for Educators and Students
Site provides information on how to best use the vast resources of the National Archives. Teach and study with primary resources, an excellent way to get in touch with history. Just for fun, click on "Sign the Declaration" for a chance...
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: If You've Seen One Source, You've Seen Them All. Right?
This is a tutorial teaching the difference between primary and secondary research sources. It provides specific examples and asks students to answer questions along the way. Java is required.
Repeat After Us
Repeat After Us: Online Library and Language Lab
This is a collection of copyright-free English texts and scripted recordings of poetry listed alphabetically by author's last name. It also lists the level of difficulty for each work as beginning, intermediate, or advanced.
British Library
British Library: Virtual Books: Turning the Pages
Prepare for hours of fascination leafing through pages of 15 incredible original texts, from the Diamond Sutra, the oldest printed book, to an original copy of "Alice's Adventures Underground." Along the way, check out such varied texts...
Library of Congress
Loc: Prints and Photographs: Glimpses of Soldiers' Lives
A collection of nineteen original photographs of soldiers who served during the Civil War. Each photograph is accompanied by a short essay that includes biographical information about their Civil War experiences and, where possible,...
Other
University of Rochester: The Camelot Project
This is a website dedicated to Arthurian resources including links to authors and texts, artists and images, characters, symbols and motifs, places, and creatures. With the exception of the authors and texts, all are accompanied by images.
US National Archives
National Archives and Records Administration: Founders Online
This site provides the texts of nearly 200,000 historical documents related to six Founding Fathers, including the papers of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. The...
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
[Free Registration/Login Required] The Gilder Lehrman Institute dedicates itself to the "study and love of American history." The site provides a general history complete with primary documents, publications, virtual museum of rotating...
Other
Illinois State Museum: Educational Programs
The Illinois State Museum offers a wealth of online learning resources. Here you will find hundreds of lesson plans across the curriculum, web exhibits to accompany them, digitized artifacts from the museum's collections, and games and...
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese: K 12 Education Curriculum: Online Classroom Projects
This site presents projects for individual classrooms and collaborative projects that can be done with other classes or schools. Most of these are science projects.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Observing
This entry focuses on observation as a primary research tool. It covers topics including participation alters the outcome, observation and interpretation are separate, note-taking vs recording, and paying attention to details.
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
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Bayou State Periodical Index
A subject index to articles in nearly ninety Louisiana periodicals published between 1958 and today. The database can be searched by keyword, subject heading, author or title.