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Lesson Plan
Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian:sourcing Classroom Poster

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Sourcing asks students to consider who wrote a document as well as the circumstances of its creation. Who authored a given document? When? For what purpose? This poster reminds students before reading a...
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Lesson Plan
University of Maryland

Howard County Public School System: Which John Smith Is Telling the Truth? [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars will read two accounts of John Smith's meeting with Powhattan and evalute which one is likely to be more accurate based upon the reliability of the sources.
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Lesson Plan
University of Maryland

Howard County Public School System: Foundations of American Government [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
How was the foundation of today's representative democracy established in early colonial America? Students will be able to source three documents and corroborate evidence to draw conclusions about the development of democratic ideas and...