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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.
US National Archives
Nara: Teaching With Documents: Teaching With Documents
Site from National Archives provides copies of primary documents that can be used while presenting various topics in U.S. history.
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...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Someone a Letter
Through the vast online resources available from EDSITEment, students can read the correspondence of the famous, the infamous and the ordinary, some of whom lived through extraordinary times. Use these fascinating letters as a starting...
Schools of California Online Resources for Education
Score: Guide to Reading Historical Documents
Here are some questions that serve as a guide while you read and study historical documents. The information at this website was originally written by the National Council for the Social Studies. W.11-12.9b US Doc Analysis
CommonLit
Common Lit: Units: 9th Grade Thematic Unit: Education
Complete teaching unit for 9th Grade Thematic Unit: "Education." Students will read six informational texts focusing on the essential question: "How can education be used to create change?" They will gather information from their...
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton: Writing About Literature: Citation and Documentation
Introductory information about the importance of documentation and types of citations.
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National Council on Public History: Evidence of the Past
Understand how historians are like detectives- studying evidence from the past.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Primary Research
Learn the difference between primary and secondary research as well as some different types of primary sources that can be used when gathering research.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Interpreting Documents on the Ahsge
Learners will explore the documents that were used in shaping the United States, before, during, and after its creation. While studying these documents, students will use reading skills to interpret and analyze documents. By the end of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Recordkeeping and History
Although many species note the passing of time, only our own species, Homo sapiens, is capable of sharing accounts, or memories, of past events and turning these into stories or "histories." This article traces the development of written...
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Ryerson University: Library: Research Help Guide: Evaluate Your Sources
Resources to help students evaluate the materials they use in their research.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Approaches to Knowledge
An article addressing how knowledge is acquired from different media formats. The article also discusses how scholars from the past asked questions about knowledge and launched their own investigations.
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: Mystery Object Challenge
Practice historical investigation skills with this mystery object activity. Look at the image and try to determine its story.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Written in Stone
A lesson that takes students through the process of examining tombstones as artifacts, identifying information that can be instrumental in investigating a community's past or an individual's genealogy. Students also make gravestone...
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Media Education Foundation: Deconstructing an Advertisement [Pdf]
Outline of the steps involved and the questions to ask in critically assessing a print advertisement.
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College of William & Mary: Historical Scene Investigation Project
Looking for a way for your students to use more primary sources? This website contain cases that give students experiences similar to those of a real historian.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Research Papers: Lesson 2
This lesson introduces research papers and their goals. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Research Papers."
TES Global
Blendspace: Evaluating Sources
A seven-part learning module with links to texts, videos, slides, and a quiz to use while learning how to evaluate research sources.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Reference Sources
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews different reference sources including, encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauruses, almanacs, atlases, and periodicals.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Geography:resources
[Free Registration/Login Required] A flipchart useful for checking students' understanding of the issues and the vocabulary they need to demonstrate their understanding of the geography resources.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Graphic Organizer: History Frame
[Free Registration/Login Required] This graphic organizer can be used to help students analyze historical events, key players, outcomes and theme or lesson learned.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Research Sources: Reference Materials
This lesson discusses using reference materials as research resources.
FNO Press
From Now On: The Research Cycle, 2000
Excellent site from From Now On for students who are assigned research papers and need to begin finding and reading material. Part of a book, the site gives information on questioning, evaluating, planning, gathering, sorting,...