"PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools."
Analyzing Documents
Teach students the process of document analysis, the foundation for working with primary sources:
1. Meet the document. 2. Observe its parts. 3. Try to make sense of it. 4. Use it as historical evidence.
Learning Objectives: Think through primary source documents (photos, written documents, artifacts, posters, maps, cartoons, videos, or sound recordings) for contextual understanding. Extract information to make informed judgments. Internalize the process of analyzing primary source documents."