New York State Education Department
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 11
You'll C-E-R a difference in classroom achievement after using a helpful lesson plan. Designed for economics, civics, government, and US history classes, participants practice using the CER model to craft arguments about primary and...
Intersectional Black Panther Party History Project, IPHP
Teaching the History of the Black Panther Party: 5 Essential FAQ’s
What are the facts about the Black Panther Party? Was it, as J. Edgar Hoover contended, a terrorist organization and a threat to national security? Or a group of indviduals bound together by a desire to protect and nurture their...
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Primary, Secondary, or Tertiary Resources
Definitions and examples of primary, secondary, and tertiary resources.
Georgetown University
Legal Research Guides: Secondary Sources Research Guide
This tutorial discusses how to perform legal research in a library--from locating relevant cases, statutes, and regulation to using secondary sources that include Periodical Indexes, Treatises, Legal Encyclopedias, and Annotated Law...
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Personal Stories and Primary Sources
Students will explore the value of personal stories and first-hand accounts when exploring history, in this case, the events of the early twentieth century, which included World War I and the Great Depression. Through this five-unit...
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.
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Primary and Secondary Accounts
Fifth graders will use letters from the Civil War to compare and contrast primary and secondary resources.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Evaluating Resources
This page explains the need for evaluating resources and offers links to rules for evaluating primary, secondary, or tertiary resources and determining if resources are good or bad.
Childnet
Childnet: Online Safety: Know It All Resources
Award-winning resources for teachers and parents. On this page you will find a selection of our Know IT All resources that were previously housed on our Know IT All website. It includes resources for Parents, Primary, Secondary Toolkits,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Straight to the Source: Primary and Secondary Sources
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...
Library and Archives Canada
Nlc: Defining Primary and Secondary Sources
Libraries and archives hold documents and books that can be used for your research projects. Learn how to divide and identify them into primary and secondary sources in this tutorial.
American Institutes for Research
Center on Response to Intervention: Multi Level Prevention System
Through this module, participants become familiar with the essential components of an RTI framework with a particular focus on the multi-level prevention system. The module covers the three levels of a multi-level prevention system...
University of California
Uc Berkeley Library: Critical Evaluation of Resources
Questions to ask yourself when determining if a source is reliable. Discusses difference between primary and secondary source. List of reference sources and links to other sites that teach you how to evaluate sources....
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Good or Bad Resource?
This page focuses on how to evaluate resources; it establishes criteria for determining good and bad resources. Primary resources are always good, but secondary and tertiary ones need to be evaluated more closely.
Other
New York State Library: Student Activity: Primary Versus Secondary Sources
Read about the Railroad Strike of 1877 using three excerpts from textbooks and three original newspaper articles. Compare and contrast the information in the primary and secondary sources.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: If You've Seen One Source, You've Seen Them All. Right?
This is a tutorial teaching the difference between primary and secondary research sources. It provides specific examples and asks students to answer questions along the way. Java is required.
Other
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.
Other
Live Binders: Primary Source Teaching the Web 2.0 Way K 12
This learning module consists of several tools for teaching with primary and secondary resources.
Other
Parkinson's Disease Foundation: Primary Symptoms
This resource, provided by the Parkinson's Disease Foundation, discusses the primary and secondary symptoms of Parkinson's Disease.
Stanford University
Sheg:document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: New Deal and World War Ii
[Free Registration/Login Required] An inclusive unit on the New Deal and World War II with lessons about Social Security, the Zoot Suit Riots, the Dust Bowl, Mexican migration in the 1930s, the atomic bomb, Japanese internment, and the...
University of California
Cal Heritage Collection: Using Primary Sources
This resource covers what primary sources are, where we can find them, and how we can assess them in the classroom.
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Islam and Islamic Studies Resources
A comprehensive collection of primary and secondary resources for analyzing Islam and Islamic studies.
Other
George W. Bush Presidential Library: Teaching Primary and Secondary Sources
This comprehensive lesson plan provides a fact sheet, reusable worksheets, source scenarios, and assessments.
Other
Sadlier School: Comparing and Contrasting Firsthand & Secondhand Texts
This unit uses first- and second-hand accounts to explore the life of Ruby Bridges and revolves around the book "Through My Eyes" by Ruby Bridges. This detailed lesson plan includes a full literacy unit, tips for small group and...