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Do History: Using Primary Sources
This site explains the difference between a primary and secondary source. It also provides students with questions to ask when gathering evidence about a primary source document.
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Minnesota Historical Society: Minnesota Communities: Lesson: Primary Sources
Lesson plan with necessary documents attached in PDF format where students read three eye-witness accounts of a car accident and compare them to the secondary source insurance report. Then students read three eye-witness accounts of a...
Stanford University
Beyond the Bubble: History Assessments
[Free Registration/Login Required] A collection of innovative assessments, interactive rubrics, and annotated samples of student work with an emphasis on primary source documents for the use in a wide range of history concepts.
Library and Archives Canada
Nlc: Defining Primary and Secondary Sources
Libraries and archives hold documents and books that can be used for your research projects. Learn how to divide and identify them into primary and secondary sources in this tutorial.
George Mason University
George Mason University: World History Sources: Official Documents
A guide to dissecting official documents. Learn how to find the author of documents, the primary audience, and other important information.
US National Archives
Docsteach: A Revolution, a Reaction and a Reform: National History Day
Students will analyze primary source documents related to the National History Day (NHD) theme for 2011-12: Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History, determine how the documents are connected to the theme, and evaluate the effectiveness...
George Mason University
George Mason University: World History Sources: Material Culture: Images
Investigate the meaning of different cultures' images and materials. Learn to examine different questions such as what is the image, what is the meaning, what is the function, and what is the social condition.
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Battle of Little Bighorn
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson allows students to explore causes of the Battle of Little Bighorn by...
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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Prohibition
[Free Registration/Login Required] Young scholars read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a single historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson plan allows students to consider the 18th Amendment within...
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Stanford History Education Group: Roman Republic
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson using primary resources in which students investigate how democratic the Roman Republic was. Includes downloads for student materials, teacher mateials, PowerPoint, and original sources.
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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Pocahontas
[Free Registration/Login Required] Young scholars use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation, students use evidence to explore whether Pocahontas actually saved John Smith's life and...
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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: The Puritans
[Free Registration/Login Required] Young scholars solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson allows students to source, corroborate, and contextualize speeches...
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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Salem Witch Trials
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students to use four historical sources to build a more textured...
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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Great Awakening
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson about the Great Awakening allows students to critically examine three...
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Sheg: Document Based: Reading Like a Historian: Declaration of Independence
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation students weigh contrasting interpretations by prominent historians to answer the question: Why...
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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Pullman Strike
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students read parallel accounts of the Pullman Strike of 1894 from...
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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Chicago Race Riots
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation, students deliberate the origins of the Chicago race riots by exploring five documents that...
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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Ibn Battuta
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson using primary resources on Ibn Battuta includes lesson plan, PowerPoint, graphic organizer, and original documents.
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Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Japanese Internment
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson delving into the reasoning behind interning the Japanese-Americans following the Pearl Harbor attack. Students will explore primary source documents to draw their conclusions.
University of California
Uc Berkeley Library: Critical Evaluation of Resources
Questions to ask yourself when determining if a source is reliable. Discusses difference between primary and secondary source. List of reference sources and links to other sites that teach you how to evaluate sources....
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Teaching History: Interactive Historical Thinking Poster (Secondary)
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...
Library of Congress
Loc: Civil War and Reconstruction
This site from the Library of Congress provides overviews of the South and North during the Civil War include soldiers' stories from both sides. There are primary documents on these topics as well as Freedmen and the Reconstruction.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Election Central 2016: Elections Throughout History
This link from the Election Central 2016 website focuses on elections throughout history with the use of primary source documents such as campaign posters, newspaper headlines, and video clips from various Presidential elections...
National Archives (UK)
National Archives Learning Curve: Hitler
Three 1937 reports speak to the potential problems of a Hitler-led Germany. Primary source documents, cartoons, and historical documents address the question, "Was Hitler a passionate lunatic?" in this series of performance tasks.
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