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Loc: Primary Sources and Personal Artifacts Lesson PlanLoc: Primary Sources and Personal Artifacts Lesson Plan
Publisher
Library of Congress
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3rd - 8th
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Social Studies & History
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Loc: Primary Sources and Personal Artifacts

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This lesson plan introduces the practice of using primary sources; where to find primary sources, what they are, how to examine them, and how to construct a context to tell more of the story.

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Concepts

primary sources

Additional Tags

historical primary sources, historical text, personal artifacts, h.ht.2 primary and secondary sources can be used to show change over time, library of congress, library of congress: primary sources and personal artifacts

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional

Common Core

RH.6-8.1 RH.6-8.2

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