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.
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George W. Bush Presidential Library: Teaching Primary and Secondary Sources
This comprehensive lesson plan provides a fact sheet, reusable worksheets, source scenarios, and assessments.
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.
Ohio State University
Osu History Teaching Institute: Witchcraft in Salem
Students will examine the Salem witchcraft trials through primary and secondary sources with an emphasis on different viewpoints of the trials.
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.
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Time Travelers: Teaching American History in the Northwest
This amazing resouce is actually a set of three courses in teaching American history of the Northwestern U. S. from the 1700s to the year 2000. Each course is fifteen weeks long. But the course is laid out so that you can browse any...
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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.
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.
Kidsource OnLine
Kid Source Online: Motivating Low Performing Adolescent Readers
An article on motivating adolescents at the high school level to become better readers. With suggestions on teaching materials and identifying reading problems. (Only available in Archive)
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: History Explorer
This website, developed by the National Museum of American History, provides standards-based online resources for teaching and learning American history. An array of teacher lessons, activities, interactive media, and artifacts tag this...