Primary+Sources+Resources

Forney ISD ~ Instructional Technology

** Primary Sources ** Historical documents about the presidency || 100 Milestone Document Links to documents from the National Archives ||  ||
 * [|What is a primary source lesson] || [|Comparison of Primary and Secondary Sources][|Lesson Plan] || American Treasurers of the Library of Congress Some of the most important materials from Library of Congress || Defining Documents Documents and articles about document written for kids ||
 * [|Awesome Stories] || African American Women at Duke UniversityHistorical documents including slave letters || US Holocaust Memorial Museum Online Collection Explore archives, art, artifacts, oral history, and photo collections || Cyberary of the Holocaust Explore resources on the Holocaust. ||
 * Woman and Social Movements in the United States 1600-20001440 primary documents and resources. || Digital Classroom from NARALots of resources and activities. || Digital History Links to primary sources, multimedia, and virtual exhibits || Making of America Primary sources in American social history ||
 * Digital Library from the New York Public LibraryIncludes documents, photos, and other materials. || Documenting the American South First-person narratives, literature, letters, and documents. || Images from the History of Medicine Nearly 60,000 photographs || Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image Lots of text and image collections. ||
 * Primary Documents in American History from Library of CongressIncludes documents from 1763-1815, 1815-1860, and 1860-1877 || THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet Primary sources documents on government. || [|Library of Congress] || [|Early American Primary Sources] ||
 * Ad*Access Ads from the early 1900s by categories such as beauty, television, transportation, and WWII || American President

** Real-World Data Sources ** Photos and videos of the microscopic world ||
 * Fed Stats A gateway to statistics from 100 US Federal agencies || Geostat: Historical Census Browser Census date from the 1800s and 1900s || National Geophysical Data Center from NOAAData on a wide range of science topics. || Surface Distance Between Two Points of Latitude and Longitude Enter two coordinates and receive the flight distance. Or find distance between 326 different cities worldwide. ||
 * Statistics at the State and Local Levels || Statistics from Digital Librarian || Earth and Moon Viewer || Molecular Expressions

Links to Resources Links to map websites and activities || Repositories of Primary Sources Links to over 5300 websites with manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar ||  ||   || ** Teaching with Primary Source s **
 * 42explore: Historical Maps
 * National Archives - Documents that Teacher || [|What is a Primary Source] Interactive Lesson || Digital Archives and Collections Ideas for using primary resources || [|Using Primary Sources in the Classroom] ||
 * Do History Learn to piece together the past from fragments that have survived. Explore an example, then create your own || History Matters Lots of lesson and teaching ideas for working with primary resources. Explores students as historians || Teaching with Documents Document-based Questions and ideas for teaching || I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write a Letter (Grades 3-8)Lesson about historic letters ||
 * [|If You’ve Seen One] Comparing Primary and Secondary Documents || Document Analysis Worksheets from National ArchivesGreat worksheets for different types of historical documents, audios, and videos || American Memories from Library of CongressLots of lessons and examples || Artifact and Analysis: A Teachers Guide to Interpreting Objects and Writing History Strategies for incorporating historical artifacts into the classroom. ||