{"id":804,"date":"2018-10-30T03:28:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T03:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/primary-sources\/?page_id=804"},"modified":"2019-03-21T14:11:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T14:11:05","slug":"resources-about-teaching-with-primary-sources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/primary-sources\/resources-about-teaching-with-primary-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources for Teaching with Primary Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Library of Congress has an extensive collection of primary sources that include audio recordings, sheet music, political cartoons, documents and more. Check out the links below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Education Resources from the Library of Congress<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/rr\/news\/topics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chronicling America: American Historic Newspapers\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><br \/>\nprovides background information, important dates,\u00a0 and links to sample articles . Newspaper pages can be accessed as scrollable pdfs. <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn86063381\/1918-11-07\/ed-1\/seq-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to view example.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Primary source sets. such as<a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/teachers\/classroommaterials\/primarysourcesets\/childrens-lives\/pdf\/classroom.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Children&#8217;s Lives at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/teachers\/usingprimarysources\/guides.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Analysis Tools and Guide<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/film-and-videos\/collections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Film and Video Collections at the Library of Congress<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Id4i9iJNHqs?list=PL87C4B99221943BCD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Library of Congress YouTub<\/a>e Channel <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Id4i9iJNHqs?list=PL87C4B99221943BCD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to view<\/a>\u00a0The First Circus, silent film.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalmap.gov\/small_scale\/printable\/elections.html#list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Veteran&#8217;s History Project<\/a><br \/>\nprovides eyewitness accounts from\u00a0 those who participated in America&#8217; wars<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.loc.gov\/teachers\/2012\/05\/shortcuts-for-finding-primary-sources\/\">Shortcuts for finding primary sources<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Teaching Ideas<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/teachers\/professionaldevelopment\/tpsdirect\/pdf\/Leaving-Evidence-of-Our-Lives.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leaving Evidence of our Everyday Lives\u00a0<\/a>Lesson Plan<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/teachers\/professionaldevelopment\/tpsdirect\/pdf\/Lincolns-Pockets.pdf\">What&#8217;s in Lincoln&#8217;s Pockets<\/a> Lesson Plan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Teaching students how to formulate questions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibmidatlantic.org\/Experiencing-the-QFT.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Experiencing the Question Formulation Technique\u2122<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #9e0808\"><strong>Stanford History Education Group<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sheg.stanford.edu\/history-lessons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reading Like a Historian Lessons <\/a><br \/>\n[free registration required to view the lessons and materials] Lessons for United States and World History<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sheg.stanford.edu\/history-assessments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyond the Bubble<\/a><br \/>\na series of short assessments designed to assess the historical skills of sourcing, contextualization, corroboration, use of evidence and periodization.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sheg.stanford.edu\/civic-online-reasoning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Civic Reasoning<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/teachinghistory.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teaching History<\/a> (National History\u00a0 Education Clearinghouse)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/teachinghistory.org\/themes\/teachinghistory\/homevid\/historical_thinking.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Think Historically<\/a>\u00a0video of the historical thinking process<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.docsteach.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Docs Teach<\/a><br \/>\nan online tool from the National Archives with links to resources, teaching tips,and activity tools to create your own interactive activity. [free registration required for create tool]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hsi.wm.edu\/\">HSI\u00a0Historical Scene Investigation\u00a0<\/a>contains a series of prepared investigations such as the Boston Massacre including four steps: becoming a detective, investigating the evidence, searching for clues, and cracking the case. The materials were developed by the\u00a0 College of William and Mar School of Education, University of Kentucky School of Education and a grant from the Teaching with Primary Sources Program of the Library of Congress.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/historicalthinkingmatters.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Histoical Thinking\u00a0 Matters,<\/a>a project of the Roy Rozsnzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University<br \/>\nfeatures inquiries about the Spanish American War, the Scopes Trial, Social Security, and Rosa Parks.links to 100 milestone do0ucments of American\u00a0 history from the National Archives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/picturingamerica.neh.gov\/downloads\/pdfs\/Resource_Guide\/English\/English_PA_TeachersGuide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Picturing America Teachers Resource Book<\/a> produced by the National Endowment for the Humanities<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/schooltool.us\/pa\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Picturing America Gallery<\/a><br \/>\nprovides access to the images provides as posters as part of the project. Also includes vidoes explaining the pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Learn More<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.loc.gov\/teachers\/2016\/03\/integrating-historical-and-geographic-thinking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Integrating History and Geographic Thinking<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Presidential Libraries<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rbhayes.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rutherford B. Hayes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hoover.archives.gov\/exhibits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Herbert Hoover<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/presidential-libraries\/visit\/roosevelt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Franklin D. Roosevelt\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trumanlibrary.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harry S.\u00a0 Truman<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eisenhower.archives.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dwight D. Eisenhower<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jfklibrary.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John F. Kennedy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lbjlibrary.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lyndon B. Johnson<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nixonlibrary.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard Nixon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gerald R. Ford<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jimmy Carter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bush41.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George H.W. Bush<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reaganfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ronald Reagan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clintonlibrary.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">William J. Clinton<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bushcenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George W. Bush<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.obamalibrary.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barack Obama<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/millercenter.org\/president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miller Center<\/a> at the University of Virginia provides in-depth background information about the lives, and foreign and domestic legacies of U.S. Presidents.<br \/>\nprovides access to sites containing histori sites and monuments such as the National Historic Trails for The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/mopi\/planyourvisit\/upload\/IA-ATR-IG-2010-revision-final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Mormon Pioneer Trails Across Iowa in 1846<\/a>\u00a0 and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/came\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cape Henry Memorial<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Learn More about the Library of Congress<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalmap.gov\/small_scale\/printable\/elections.html#list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The History Channel Movie<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Library of Congress Visitor Experience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Library of Congress has an extensive collection of primary sources that include audio recordings, sheet music, political cartoons, documents and more. Check out the links below. Education Resources from the Library of Congress Chronicling America: American Historic Newspapers\u00a0\u00a0 provides background information, important dates,\u00a0 and links to sample articles . 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