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I had to send this straight to 5th grade teachers in our district.  What a fun and valuable way to teach the difference between primary and secondary sources.  This is a clear and concise teaching of a topic that is very difficult for some students to comprehend.

I can really relate to this article because when I taught 5th grade, students needed to identify primary and secondary sources.  We had many discussions because this can be a confusing topic (not only for 5th graders).

The Internet History Sourcebook is a collection of historical, modern, medieval documents, maps, primary and secondary sources, literature resources, and bibliographies. This is a great resource that covers a very large span of history and information. The only downside to this site is that it has very few images.  

This official White House site is geared for secondary and older. The students can learn about the branches of government both Federal and State governments. They can find contacts for the representatives in both Houses as well as the Cabinet. Blogs and podcasts of the Presidential addresses are posted here as well as current information about bills being debated. There is also historical information about the White House, Presidents, and First Ladies. 

This is Intended for elementary and secondary school students and teachers who are interested in learning about the nervous system and brain with hands on activities, experiments and information.

The Truman Library provides some great lessons and primary documents for elementary to secondary students. Various documents can be found including cartoons, audio clips, print resources, and photographs. A chronology of events during Truman's presidency highlights his contributions to history. Great for history or government classes to explore.

The main focus of this site is the secondary sources of the entire journals, manuscripts, and diaries of all the members of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. The site also contains a large image collection of primary sources in the form of images from parts of the journals, drawings made in the documents, maps. The images of people and places are not primary sources and all fro LOC & Nat. Archive.

This website's main focus is centered on the history and culture of California and the role it played in national and world history. Calisphere includes photographs, diaries, recorded oral history, cultural artifacts, documents, etc. I feel this is a great resource, even for teachers not living in California, because of the variety of information presented and the prevalence of primary and secondary sources of our nation's history. 

This website has many different topics.  I like that they include topics like assembly lines and other important pieces of history that are not always featured on other sites.  Most topics that I look at included many images which students will love.

This website allows students to search images and information related to a theme, such as the Civil Rights Movement, or of a specific subject, such as Rosa Parks.

This is a great site to use for primary sources practice. You can work with the activities given or do as I've done and have students compare the information they can get from primary sources versus secondary sources. The set up of the activities in investigation form can be quite appealing for students as well. I think this would be good for 5-12 grade.

This primary source is filled with upper elementary to secondary education material. It contains teacher education, videos, an outline of subjects covered and real time information. It is easy to spend a lot of time viewing all the informtion available on C-Span Classroom.

This website allows you to see virtual exhibits from historical events. It also has a teacher page with information to aide with using this source. I appreciated the ease of using this website.

The links from this site are fantastic! There were some broken links from the library of congress that I think would be very good if they were fixed. State standards are listed at the bottom, but they did not include Nebraska. Lesson plans, examples and activities help teach the topic of primary sources well.

Student friendly wed site that explores energy basic, energy resources, using and saving energy and history of energy. The teacher's resource has activities that use this web site.

This site is good for researching seismic activity and earth quake. Students can monitor seismic activite daily.