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I think that primary sources could be really neat to tie into social studies lessons. For instance, you could use a journal entry recounting an event from someone as a primary source, and then learn about that event and have students write what it would be like if they lived through that event. To tie in culturally relevant pedagogy, I think it would be creative to use a journal entry from someone in history discussing a tradition or important part of their culture, and then students in the class can write their own journal entries about their own culture and an important tradition or aspect of it.

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Educational information, activities and resources for educators, families, and students. Educational materials emphasize inquiry based learning with primary sources and museum collections. Smithsonian visit planning for educators, students and families. This site is an incredible resource for a teacher involved in any discipline.

In this age of increasing cutbacks in school funding, it is rare for students to be able to take field trips to museums. Thus, it is more important than ever to take advantage of virtual field trips where students can be exposed to primary sources and museum collections without leaving the classroom.

Amazing collection of primary sources related to the early exploration of North America. Shared by B Hagen!

Amazing collection of primary sources related to the early exploration of North America.

This is a great lesson that uses primary sources to answer questions about the Great Depression and the New Deal.

Examine Primary sources to learn about mining in MN history.  Also see http://www.mnhs.org/school/classroom/communities/teachers/index.html to find teacher resources like worksheets & answer keys. 

At the Minnesota Historical Society we've been collecting, preserving, and telling Minnesota stories for 150 years.

This is a great site. Any of the programs the MNHS puts on are always great if you are looking for hands on education, too.

The Primary Source for History Online. License digital images illustrating more than two hundred years of American history

I stumbled on this looking for material for another class. I thought it might be helpful to others.

Primary Source Lesson Plan of Chinese Family

This site has units and lesson plans on: Lewis and Clark preparing for the trip, politics, mapping, women, animals, language, trade and property, plants. There is a section on exploring and using primary and secondary sources.

"There are 2 (and only 2) primary sources for the events of autumn 1621 in Plymouth : Edward Winslow writing in Mourt's Relation and William Bradford writing in Of Plymouth Plantation"

How do we contextualize this for learners today? If this primary source is accurate, how can they understand that a government agency was actively unsupportive of MLK? If a government agency was against MLK in 1964, what might a government agency might not be supportive of today that will be similarly shocking to us in forty years?

Maren's example of a primary sources activity.

Primary Sources

By clicking on one of the book icons there are more options available to you than the other link I Diigoed. I didn't go back for enough for this site.

By clicking on one of the book icons there are more options available to you than the other link I Diigoed. I didn't go back for enough for this site.

Thanks Ciara!