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.

[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.

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.

[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.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students 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...

[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...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students use primary source documents to investigate the central historical question about slavery. In this investigation students consider the positions of delegates to the Constitutional Convention...

[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...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson using primary resources on Ibn Battuta includes lesson plan, PowerPoint, graphic organizer, and original documents.

This site is provided for by PBS. An interview with Geneva Overholser, former editor of The Des Moines Register, who led the paper to a Pulitzer Prize for public service. Frank discussion about the state of the profession, using...

Learn how to analyze primary and secondary sources using text evidence. An example is provided. (Note: Exercises don't load in archived copy.)

[Free Registration/Login Required] Learners solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson plan allows students to source, corroborate, and contextualize speeches...

[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...

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...

Go directly to the teacher's guide developed to supplement the PBS documentary "Africans in America," which chronicles the history of slavery in the United States. Find lessons, many of which provide links to related primary sources,...

Resources and lesson plans concerning the thousands of letters Mrs. Roosevelt received from young people asking for help during the Depression. Students learn how to use primary source documents.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson on the Egyptian Pyramids in which students use primary resources to determine who the workers were that built the pyramids. Lesson plan, PowerPoint and original documents included.

Comprehensive learning module from which students use multi-media resources, including video, graphic organizers and primary source material, to explore U.S. policy and the use of drones. Cooperative and independent learning features.

This cross curriculum lesson plan encourages independent thought and investigation as learners examine images related to the cultures that combined at Jamestown settlement. Encourages the use of art to understand history. An informative...

Using primary source documents, high school lesson plan focuses on John Brown, the events at Harper's Ferry, and his trial and execution. Included are excerpts from 16 primary source documents to aid in the research of writing this paper.

Electricity is the flow of electrical power or charge. It is a secondary energy source which means that we get it from the conversion of other sources of energy, like coal, natural gas, oil, nuclear power and other natural sources, which...

In July 1975, the first joint Soviet-American spacecraft docking took place. For this activity, young scholars will analyze the way that government officials in both the United States and the Soviet Union valued space exploration for...

Students will examine several historical congressional records from the Reconstruction period to assess whether they show evidence that the Reconstruction period of American history should or should not be viewed as a revolution. The...

How do you bring justice to the millions of people killed in German concentration camps? The Nuremberg Trials attempted this challenge. Study how SS officers were put on trial and punished using the following primary sources. Included...