A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 22, 2020

I often recommend the use of this tool in History as a way to explore primary source documents. Suppose you want to develop a literacy lesson for your learners. ThingLink could be used to curate content (text, video, images). After kids review the content, Google Forms could be used for them to answer higher-order questions.

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Passion for Social Studies

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Students will learn this through several primary sources before deciding if the era was truly progressive after studying the definition. Specifically, it illustrates to students how “slippery” the term Progressivism actually is! So, it shows that while it is a good term to generalize a scattered era of history, it has flaws.

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Passion for Social Studies

DECEMBER 15, 2024

They can investigate primary sources, create timelines, produce presentations, or even re-enact historical events. They also promote activity learning. history can often feel distant or abstract, but projects help make it real by involving students in hands-on tasks. Additionally, projects support diverse learning styles.

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History Primary Sources Critical Thinking Social Studies 130

History Tech

OCTOBER 10, 2024

I got the chance this week to chat a bit with my kids – both now in Minnesota. And during the convo with the youngest, we ended up talking about a letter written by a Norwegian ski instructor in 1943. The guy was teaching US and Canadian special ops guys to ski as part of […]

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TCI

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Primary Source Integration: Many programs emphasize the use of primary sources in instruction. Engaging with diverse sources helps students broaden their understanding and prepare to thrive in an interconnected world. Assessment Tools: Many curricula include formative and summative assessment options.

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NCHE

MARCH 25, 2024

Those resources present the latest discoveries from primary sources, place-based learning, graphic novels, podcasts, and videos. Those resources are tailored to reading level and teaching style, by standard and grade level. They can be employed in whole or in part, in a few minutes or for an entire class.

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Social Studies Success

JULY 20, 2023

Primary Source Practice This spring, I had an epiphany ! I was sitting down with a friend, planning out a new workshop on how to analyze primary sources – students were really struggling analyzing primary sources! Finding the main idea is a skill often associated with reading primary source excerpts.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 10, 2024

You Have Primary Sources in Your Family May 10, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Primary sources transport students through history. Primary sources are excellent tools to help students learn how to think like historians. Students should know that their family records are also primary sources!

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 10, 2025

Primary Source Analysis Tools Engage students with firsthand accounts of the past with easy-to-use worksheets that help students analyze various types of sources and bring their stories to life. In their new home, they could buy land, practice their faith, and have equal standing in their communities.

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HistoryRewriter

MARCH 4, 2024

The last time I wrote about Thick Slides, I used them for a Primary Source Scavenger Hunt. They are a fun and engaging formative or summative assessment that gives students some structure for writing.

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Social Studies Primary Sources Government History 246

Moler's Musing

MARCH 8, 2025

Image & Source Analysis (8 Parts) A picture is worth a thousand wordsbut only if students know how to analyze it! Post a primary source image (painting, political cartoon, propaganda poster) on Snorkl and have students: Identify nouns, adjectives, and verbs within the image. Add images or drawings to represent key ideas.

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Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 23, 2019

The librarians have created huge sets of primary source images by topic or time period. Library of Congress Primary Source Sets I encourage students to browse the primary source sets or to search for an image. My favorite place to send students to look for history-based images is the Library of Congress.

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History Primary Sources Social Studies Library 130

Active History Teacher

JULY 18, 2024

It’s the hardest primary source I teach and I’m sure many of you feel the same. The question is, “What kinds of Constitution activities will help them apply what they know and help them remember?” Every year I teach the Constitution I want to try something new. I WANT it to be meaningful. I WANT it to make sense.

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HistoryRewriter

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

First, select a primary source for students to interpret via the Retell in Rhyme EduProtocol. I borrowed this excerpt from my friend, Dr. Mark Jarrett’s work with primary sources. Next, I usually ask my students to work in pairs or small groups to interpret the primary source by retelling it in 10 rhyming couplets.

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World History Teachers Blog

JULY 27, 2023

I love it—you can take primary sources that you find on the internet, paste in the URL and the program will generate the source with questions, both multiple choice and short answer. You can adjust the length of the source. Some primary sources are just too long for our kids, so the "shorten" function really helps.

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Thrive in Grade Five

AUGUST 19, 2023

Whiteboard Example Student Example Idea #2: Make Primary Source Connections! After using a primary source text or image with your students, ask them to make a couple of connections. Allow students to pair up and discuss the primary source used in class.

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Social Studies Primary Sources Classroom Management Government 130

World History Teachers Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The story maps are engaging and include images, maps, graphs, and primary sources presented in an engaging manner like the excerpt below from the First Crusade story map.

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NCHE

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Since 2021, the National Council for History Education has partnered with the Library of Congress’ Teaching with Primary Sources program on a nationwide program, “The Rural Experience in America”. One example of the work that will be presented in The Source is students’ discoveries in their hometown of Thomaston, Georgia.

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Moler's Musing

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Annotate and Tell: Analyzing James Wilsons Argument To deepen their understanding, students analyzed a primary source excerpt from James Wilson, who argued for having one president. This consistent structure helped students compare this debate with the previous ones, reinforcing the importance of compromise in shaping the Constitution.

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Active History Teacher

JULY 13, 2024

If you teach EARLY American history, some of the 17th and 18th century vocabulary is difficult to read and understand in primary sources. The Declaration of Independence and Constitution are HARD to read and understand. Examples: Thou, ordain, angst etc. The language of teenagers is NOT the language of history.

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History Primary Sources American History Teaching 195

Teaching American History

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Excerpts for discussion, a pre-webinar discussion board, and links to webinar recordings and relevant primary sources will be made available to registrants. Our webinars meet monthly on select Saturday mornings from 10.45am12pm ET. hours of professional development.

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Primary Sources American History Professional Development History 52

ASHP CML

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This week, researcher Carli Snyder shares a primary source. Stay tuned for more documents in the coming weeks both on our website and on our primary source database, Social History for Every Classroom. The record features Giovanni reciting some of her poems, laid over soul, gospel, and blues music.

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Education Week - Social Studies

JANUARY 30, 2025

Do you know how to put Black history sources in context?

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Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This part helped students connect primary source analysis to the broader motivations for European exploration, further deepening their historical thinking skills. The video helped set the stage for understanding the complexities of Columbus’s actions and provided a foundation for the primary source activity.

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Social Studies Success

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

It allows you to focus on a variety of primary sources as well as key Social Studies skills. With these, the answer choices reveal a specific letter, building up to unscrambling the letters to reveal a word. The word is again a number directing where to glue the clip art. This is actually my favorite type of puzzle.

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Primary Sources Social Studies 64

Studies Weekly

MARCH 14, 2025

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Primary Sources American History World History Social Studies 52

Active History Teacher

JULY 9, 2021

I love watching students make connections as they sort primary sources , vocabulary and key people in US History. Honestly, my students LOVE it when I break out with the baggies. They know we are about to do something hands-on. They are discussing, reviewing and are engaged in the content.

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Social Studies Primary Sources American History History 195

Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 4, 2025

There is a broad representation of languages in the collection, with a rich assortment of primary source materials. With its focus on the Hellenic world, the collection contains materials from antiquity to the present across the social sciences and humanities relating to Greece, its neighboring countries, and the surrounding region.

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World History Teachers Blog

JUNE 15, 2022

Examining primary sources about the looting, Thompson notes that one soldier wrote his mother that in one monastery " I got rather a nice gong which no doubt you will find useful when I am able to get it home." Thompson notes that in 1903 the British led a force into Tibet and killed over 600 Tibetian soldiers with Maxim machine guns.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 14, 2025

These pilot experiences were invaluable we observed firsthand how students engaged in compelling questions, analyzed primary sources, and developed their own interpretations of historical events. Others worried about the complexities of multilingual learners engaging with rigorous primary sources.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2024

As Publications Manager at Teaching American History , I frequently hear the following from our teacher partners: I love teaching with primary sources! My district has dropped our textbook and we are switching to primary sources. There is a dizzying number of websites out there that promote the use of primary sources.

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Library Primary Sources American History Social Studies 105

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

We can spend all day telling students how to do something, like write a thesis statement, solve a type of problem, or analyze a primary source. In the same way, teachers should dedicate the same time and attention to feedback as they do to instruction.

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Active History Teacher

DECEMBER 22, 2022

For example, students can race to complete primary source analysis, vocabulary matching, map activities, and more. Put students into small groups and ask them to complete a task in a designated amount of time or to be the quickest (while also being correct).

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

I often weave these historical narratives into content through primary sources. I love using primary sources and personal narratives to make history more relevant for my students, but that takes second place to tangible pieces of history like my family artifacts, such as my great-grandfather's World War I uniform.

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History Primary Sources Artifacts Social Studies 137

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 1, 2019

NewseumED is committed to helping students “learn how to authenticate, analyze and evaluate information from a variety of sources” and supporting teachers in putting “current events in historical context through standards-aligned lesson plans, videos, primary sources, virtual classes, and programs.”

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Primary Sources Civics Lesson Plan Teaching 124

ASHP CML

MARCH 18, 2025

If youre interested, please send a brief CV and a short statement of interest outlining your idea for a collection, along with a plan for identifying and gathering potential primary sources, to cdha@gc.cuny.edu.

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Archiving History Primary Sources Library 40

Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Friday Primary Sources Lesson Link , Thick Slide Summary Friday was a day off for me, so I set up an inquiry lesson for my students—a deep dive into the question, “Why is it important to have a voice in government? I asked it to rewrite the sources at a 7th-grade reading level , but still maintain the original tone and style.

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