College Board
Evaluating Sources: How Credible Are They?
How can learners evaluate research sources for authority, accuracy, and credibility? By completing readings, discussions, and graphic organizers, scholars learn how to properly evaluate sources to find credible information. Additionally,...
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Using Primary Sources
The Library of Congress provides teachers with a framework that will help integrate primary sources into all areas of the curriculum. Sections include "Why to Use Primary Sources," "Citing Primary Sources," and "Finding Primary Sources."
Utah Education Network
Uen: World War One Main Events Using Primary Sources
In this lesson, 5th graders will use primary sources to learn about World War I. Students will record their discoveries about World War I on a graphic organizer provided with the lesson.
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...
Alabama Department of Archives and History
Adah: Using Primary Sources in the Classroom: Slavery Unit
A website with lesson plans for various grade levels on slavery, using primary sources.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Using Primary Sources
This is an interdisciplinary inquiry-based lesson plan that focuses on critical thinking. Learners are introduced to the true story of the first Thanksgiving with the reading of a NCSS Notable Trade Book Thanksgiving: The True Story....
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Library of Congress: Teaching With Primary Sources
This website is an excellent resource for teaching with primary sources. This resource features Holocaust lessons, lesson plan strategies, and podcasts.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Global Issues Using Primary Sources
Lesson introduces students to how to use newspapers to understand what is currently happening in the world today.
Library of Congress
Loc: Primary Source Set: Thanksgiving
Teaching guide that uses primary sources to cover the history, traditions, and events of the American holiday of Thanksgiving. Provides additional online resources.
Stanford University
Stanford Education History Group: Battle of Thermopylae
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson in which students use primary resources to investigate questions and historian claims about the Battle of Thermopylae. Includes downloadable lesson plan, original documents, and PowerPoint.
Stanford University
Stanford History Education Group: Athenian Democracy Sac
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson in which students use primary source material from ancient Greece to determine the extent of its democracy. Includes downloads for teacher materials, student materials, PowerPoint and original...
Stanford University
Stanford History Education Group: Mansa Musa
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson on Mansa Musa uses primary resources for historical investigation. Includes lesson plan, PowerPoint, and original documents.
Georgetown University
Legal Research Guides: Secondary Sources Research Guide
This tutorial discusses how to perform legal research in a library--from locating relevant cases, statutes, and regulation to using secondary sources that include Periodical Indexes, Treatises, Legal Encyclopedias, and Annotated Law...
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Using Sources Effectively
This site provides hints and guidelines on how to effectively use sources.
Stanford University
Sheg: Reading Like a Historian: 1898 North Carolina Election
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson using primary resources on the 1898 election in North Carolina during the Gilded Age. Includes handouts, primary sources, and student questions. Requires free registration to access resources.
Stanford University
Sheg: Reading Like a Historian: Settlement House Movement Sac
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson using primary sources from Progressive Era about the Settlement House Movement. Includes downloadable teacher materials, student materials, and primary source documents.
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Albert Parsons Sac
[Free Registration/Login Required] Young scholars use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation, students read six different sources that provide insight into what happened at Haymarket...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian:examining Passenger Lists
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. For this investigation, students critically examine the passenger lists of ships headed to New England and Virginia to...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Reconstruction Sac
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this structured academic controversy, students examine constitutional amendments, a Black Code, a personal account...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Populism: 1896 Election
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students to read two Populist speeches in order to explain why the...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Political Bosses
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation, students examine a political cartoon, a muckraker text, and the defense of a political boss to...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Primary Source Picture Book
Inspired by My Tour Of Europe, by Teddy Roosevelt, learners will create a children's picture book based on a topic of historical study to be used as a primary document.
Ohio State University
Osu: Cold Cases: Lessons in Historical Skills and Methods: Cook or Perry?
The controversy still is hotly debated! Who reached the North Pole first? Students can use primary documents and put on a mock trial to discuss the claims of Cook and Peary. Using the 21st-century skill of critical analysis, they can...
Stanford University
Stanford History Education Group: Understanding the Black Death
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson in which students compare two primary source documents to investigate how people experienced or understood the plague in 1348. Inlcudes lesson plan, PowerPoint, and original documents.