Resources for Primary Source Documents 

 

   

 

http://www.primarysourcelearning.org/ I wonderful resources for primary source documents in the classroom.

Rationale for using primary source documents in the classroom

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ This is a comprehensive collection of United States history presented through primary sources.

The Great Depression Primary Source lesson adapted by Meg

Rationale for Using Primary Sources Documents

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/psources/source.html Defining primary and secondary sources.

http://www.aamprogram.org/ A new search engine for students looking for primary sources.

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/calheritage/k12project/strategies.html Strategies to use primary source documents.

http://www.cdpheritage.org/educator/documents/CAL.pdf Background information from the Colorado Digitization Project

Social Science Primary Source Collections

http://www.archives.gov/index.html The online home of The National Archives. 

http://www.remember.org/witness/cowling.html This is a letter side by side with an official report, very interesting for critical reading and point of view.

http://bensguide.gpo.gov/ Ben's Guide to U.S. government.

http://www.youthsource.ab.ca/teacher_resources/ps_overview.html A comprehensive web site filled with lessons and very clear rationale for using primary source documents in the classroom.

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/ The Library of Congress teacher center.

http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/ A large collection of primary source documents for history teachers.

http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/ Primary source documents from Western Europe.

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/ Primary source documents arranged in a timeline.

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/ History matters collection.

http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html Over 5,240 primary source documents organized by regions of the world.

http://www.ku.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html Documents for the study of history.

http://www.historybuff.com/ History Buff resources and library

http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/hers_u.html A collection of on-line exhibits.

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CalHeritage/ California history. Search your state and "primary source" to locate more.

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/teacher_lessons/primary_sources.htm lessons from the Truman Library.

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/resources/ssced/resources/primarysources.htm Texas primary source documents.

Science Primary Sources

http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/ Images from the history of medicine

http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/index.html The Galileo project. Primary source documents tell a story.

http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/index.html Primary source documents related to the history of computing.

http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/papers.html Selected classic papers from the history of chemistry.

http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/barbed_wire_patent/barbed_wire_patent.html Gliddens patent for barbed wire. A complete lesson around a primary source document.

 

Lesson collections:

http://www.youthsource.ab.ca/teacher_resources/ps_lesson1.html Lesson plans to connect primary sources to today.

http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/index.html Lessons created around the primary source documents in the National Archives.

 

 
 
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