5 Days of Helpful Tools: Day 3 - Primary Sources

It’s Day Three of a week of useful tools for social studies teachers.

Today’s tool? Primary sources.

Start with a collection of History Tech posts that focus on primary sources. Then head out to a few other places:

• Primary Sources
  Social Studies Central
• Repositories of Primary Sources
  University of Idaho
• Primary Sources on the Web
  EduPlace
• DocsTeach
  National Archives
• American Memory
  Library of Congress
• Teaching with Documents
  National Council for the Social Studies
• Using Primary Sources
  Library of Congress
• Strategies for Using Primary Sources in Your Social Studies Classroom
  TeachingHistory

And this is just the tip of a very large iceberg. A simple Google search that combines search terms like “primary sources” and “social studies” will provide a ton of useful sites. Insert terms such as “using” or “lesson plans” and you’ll find more stuff than you can carry.