Sophia Learning
Sophia: Research Sources: Mining Bibliographies
This slideshow lesson focuses on mining bibliographies, or searching other bibliography pages on your topic to locate potential sources for your own research. It discusses the pros and cons of mining bibliographies.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Research Sources: Periodicals
This slideshow lesson focuses on the use of periodicals as research sources; it discusses the pros of using periodicals as organizational aids and in research of current events and also the cons of periodical's lack of depth and possible...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Historical Thinking Interactives
Six interactive activities are presented that walk students through how to use their critical thinking skills in the analysis of historical artifacts and documents. The sixth one explains how to balance the various perspectives that...
Stanford University
Stanford University: Catalogs and Search Tools
This resource provides Stanford University catalog collections, as well as databases and search tools.
University of California
Uc Irvine: Distinguishing Between Primary & Secondary Sources
This site has an online quiz to test your knowledge of primary and secondary sources.
Other
University of Washington Libraries: Starting Research
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...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Historical and Cultural Contexts
This interesting interactive website explains kinds of primary sources and gives you the chance to identify them in some games.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Compare Articles [Pdf]
This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer designed for comparing and contrasting nonfiction articles.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Compare Central Idea Across Mult Texts [Pdf]
This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer designed for comparing a central idea across multiple texts.
Other
Groucher College: Library Research Techniques for the Professional Scholar
This site provides clear techniques and guidelines on finding secondary and primary research for use in scholarly analysis that involves looking at the evidence and discovering a pattern that makes meaning.
Duke University
Duke University Libraries: Finding Primary Sources
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,...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Reference Materials Printed and Electronic
Learn how to use dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauri in order to determine meanings of words and phrases, including their denotations, connotations, and etymologies.
Virginia Tech
Digital History Reader: Introduction
An online learning module for the U.S. and European history. Presents central questions of key events in history. Students explore data, evaluate conflicting accounts or interpretations, and develop conclusions based on primary evidence....
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese: Historical Treasure Chests
After learning to distinguish between primary and secondary sources, young scholars will examine four primary documents and address a set of questions for each.
University of California
University of California, Davis: The History Project
The History Project is a growing collection of lesson plans, teaching tools, digitized images, and documents for the teaching of history. Includes assignments for having students apply analytical skills to primary sources.
Colorado State University
Colorado State University: The Wac Clearinghouse
Although this site is primarily designed for instructors at the post-secondary level, the information and suggestions given can also be used, with only minor changes, at the high school or middle school levels as well. Learn ways for...
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Communication Journals
This is an index of communication journals and their publishers with links to the journals.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Discovery and Attribution
The research process can be daunting, but it doesn't have to be overwhelming! After you complete this self-guided unit, you will be well prepared to write a research paper. You will learn how to choose a topic, evaluate the reliability...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Teaching With Primary Sources
Five lesson plans, complete with videos, primary sources, and document-based questions (DBQ) to encourage students to utilize primary sources and incorporate thinking and writing into daily learning. Topics include: Artifact &...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: English 4; Wealth and Poverty
A learning module asking students to analyze different types of texts, learn literary terms, write a satirical essay and a mock newspaper article, and work with vocabulary skills all within themes related to wealth and poverty.
Other
Using Sources Effectively
This site provides hints and guidelines on how to effectively use sources.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Libraries: Library & Archival Exhibitions on the Web
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.
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...
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
Truman Library & Museum: Incorporating Primary Sources in the Classroom
Students and teachers are given direction in how to work with the primary source materials of the Harry S Truman Presidential Library.