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Sourcing HandoutSourcing Handout
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Stanford University
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5th - 10th
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Sourcing

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What questions do historians ask when sourcing a document? Here's a poster that models these questions.

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Concepts

primary source analysis

Additional Tags

social studies

Instructional Ideas

  • Enlarge, laminate, and display the poster during this unit on reading like a historian

Classroom Considerations

The poster is designed to be used with an 11-resource series of exercises that help kids develop the skills of sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading of primary source documents to gather evidence to support historical claims

Pros

  • The image may be easily enlarged to poster size

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  • None

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