Research Sources
Research Sources
Teaching With Documents
When we ask students to work with and learn from primary sources, we transform them into historians. Rather than passively receiving information from a teacher or textbook, students engage in the
Primary Source Worksheets
The Maryland Center for History and Culture offers a variety of resources for educators to help enhance social studies instruction in their classrooms.
Teacher Lesson Plan - History Firsthand: Primary Source Research in Elementary School
GeoSource: K-5 Earth Science Education
Primary Sources for History Links
Primary Sources on the Web-The Library-University of California, Berkeley
Primary Source | Resources | Online_Curriculum | United States
ALA | Using Primary Sources on the Web
Document Analysis Worksheets
Español Document analysis is the first step in working with primary sources. Teach your students to think through primary source documents for contextual understanding and to extract information to
For Teachers (Library of Congress)
Library of Congress resources for Teachers - includes lesson plans, information about teaching with primary sources and other ways to use the Library of Congress in the classroom.
Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
Primary Source Learning
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Seek and Ye Shall Find: Locate original documents on the Web - Feature - Lifehacker
variety of links to primary source documents around the web
Primary Source | Resources | Web Links | US
Welcome to PrimaryAccess
About This Tutorial
American Women's History A Research Guide
Humanities Text Initiative
Lesson Planet
Created and managed by an experienced team of educators (editors, writers, reviewers and programmers) that are passionate about teaching and learning, Lesson Planet is constantly adding new teacher-reviewed resources, features and tools. Launched in 1999, Lesson Planet has evolved into a popular, curriculum-focused, niche search engine, designed specifically for educators. Lesson Planet is designed to help teachers discover quality, relevant teacher resources…fast. Lesson Planet provides numerous ways for teachers to refine and narrow their searches for online curriculum resources, including:
Teacher Resources- Lesson plans
volunteervoices wiki
Online Team Collaboration: shared workspaces for working with colleagues, clients, and partners.
Tenn-Share Learn and Discover - Week 4 - Tennessee Stuff - TENN-SHARE
Digital Projects- James E. Walker Library - MTSU - Murfreesboro, TN
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Crossroads Home
Crossroads to Freedom is a digital archive of materials that documents the Civil Rights era in Memphis TN. The purpose of this archive is to promote and support conversations in our community about the impact of this historical era on our city today. The archive is intended to capture the picture of life in Memphis during the era of the Black freedom struggle.
Volunteer Voices
Volunteer Voices is a statewide digitization program that provides online access to sources that document Tennessee’s rich history and culture. This program involves the collaborative efforts of Tennessee archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, and schools. The initial Volunteer Voices digitization project, “The Growth of Democracy in Tennessee,” will build a collection of 10,000 historically significant photographs, letters, artifacts, and other items from across the state. This project is funded by a three-year grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
AwesomeStories.com, The Story Place of the Web
AwesomeStories.com uniquely uses the Internet to link its story content to hundreds of thousands of the world's best on-line primary sources. Enjoy an interactive learning experience as you see relevant maps, pictures, artifacts, manuscripts and documents, IN CONTEXT, within each story.
American Memory from the Library of Congress
ovides free and open access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps and sheet music. Includes a Teacher's Page that provides classroom materials, including lesson plans, themed resources, primary source sets, and activities. The collection can be browed by topic, time period, format (map, photo, recording, etc) and place.
Making of America