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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Paper Writing: Research Paper: Topic Choice

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on choosing a topic and narrowing or expanding the focus to fit the requirements for a research paper. It provides tips like clustering, using a Venn Diagram, Google Scholar, etc. to find and narrow the topic. It...
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University of California

Uc Irvine: Distinguishing Between Primary & Secondary Sources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site has an online quiz to test your knowledge of primary and secondary sources.
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Other

University of Washington Libraries: Starting Research

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
If you need help knowing where to start your research, or if you're a teacher looking for a way to help students understand the research process, this resource is terrific. Interactive tutorials on a number of topics offer review quizzes...
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Activity
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Historical and Cultural Contexts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This interesting interactive website explains kinds of primary sources and gives you the chance to identify them in some games.
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Handout
Duke University

Duke University Libraries: Finding Primary Sources

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Finding primary sources can be difficult and confusing at times. This site provides a list of history databases, rare books and manuscripts, and research guides for those looking for primary resources such as diaries, letters,...
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Interactive
American Rhetoric

American Rhetoric: Communication Journals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an index of communication journals and their publishers with links to the journals.
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Other

Us Newspapers Us Newspapers List

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A comprehensive listing of links to newspapers from all 50 states.
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NBC

Nbc Learn

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
NBC Learn, the educational arm of NBC News, is dedicated to making historic stories, images, and primary source documents available on-demand to teachers, students, and parents.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Libraries: Library & Archival Exhibitions on the Web

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This index of links offers the opportunity to explore important and interesting topics. Visiting links on the desired topic is most likely to provide primary sources or at least point students in the right direction.
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Harry S. Truman Library and Museum

Truman Library & Museum: Incorporating Primary Sources in the Classroom

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students and teachers are given direction in how to work with the primary source materials of the Harry S Truman Presidential Library.
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Vassar College

Vassar College: 1896: Mary E. Lease

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
1896, A Website of Political Cartoons is an excellent site that includes a detailed biography and historical accounts from that time. Provides links to related subjects.
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Article
Other

History of Alternative Journalism in 20th Century

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site contains a timeline of the history of alternative journalism beginning in 1900. Includes description & brief discusses of various alternative publications.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Straight to the Source: Primary and Secondary Sources

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students discover what primary and secondary sources are and how to use them in this lesson from PBS Wisconsin Education. They watch video clips from the documentary "Wisconsin Hometown Stories: Neenah-Menasha," identifying the primary...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Electrifying America

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection of primary sources explores the introduction of electric power to the United States.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The New Woman

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection uses primary sources to explore the New Woman ideal.
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Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: Patronage/populism: Politics of Gilded Age

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection uses primary sources to explore the politics of the Gilded Age.
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Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: Boomtimes: 20th Century Mining Mojave Desert

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection uses primary sources to explore twentieth-century mining in the Mojave Desert.
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Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Populist Movement

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Populist Movement.
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Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Homestead Strike

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Homestead Strike.
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Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Steam Engine: Transportation 19th Century

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection uses primary sources to explore the steam engine and transportation in the nineteenth century.
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Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Homestead Acts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Homestead Acts.
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Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The Panic of 1837

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection uses primary sources to explore the Panic of 1837.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: The United Farm Workers Delano Grape Strike

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This collection uses primary sources to explore the United Farm Workers and the Delano Grape Strike.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: News Article Example

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This two-page news article includes a left-hand column with pointers on placement of critical features. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and...