USING PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIALS IN THE CLASSROOM

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PORTS TO VISIT

• National Archives: Digital Classroom
• Library of Congress American Memory Collection : Learning Page
• National Archives: Our Documents
• National Park Service: Treasures of our Nation
• Library of Congress American Memory Collection: Inventing Entertainment
• Digital Public Library of America
  

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PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES IN THE CLASSROOM

• University of Illinois Tutorial 

• University of Maryland definition 
• Why use primary resources in the classroom? 
• Finding Primary Resources 
• Phyllis DiBianco. "Primary sources: clues to the past." Information Searcher. 13:3. 
• Primary Source Learning 
• Historical Records and Teaching 
• Using Primary Sources on the Web (ALA) 
• Teaching Primary Students with Primary Sources
• Teaching with Primary Sources

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SUBJECT SPECIFIC SITES

Geography

• Martha B. Sharma, et.al. (2000) Greenwood Press.
    Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in Geography.
• Lewis and Clark Archives: The Journals
• Lewis and Clark Expedition: Voyage of Redisovery
• Rocky Mountain Life
• America's Historical Maps
• Topographic Map Symbols
• Google Earth
• TerraServer
• Aerials Only Gallery

Government, Economics, and World Issues

• James M. Shiveley, et.al. (2001) Greenwood Press. 
  

             Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in Government,
             Economics, and Contemporary World Issues.

• NARA Analysis Sheets
  
• Think-Pair-Share Strategy (Additional strategies)
  
• Jigsaw Strategy
  
• Find Webquests
  

History

• Kathleen W. Craver. (1999) Greenwood Press.
    Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in History.
• Photojournalism: A Record of War
• Weather on Your Birthday
• EdSitement (National Endowment for the Humanities)
• What are we fighting for over there?
• Letters Written by the Pilgrims

Mathematics

• Evan Glazer. (2001) Greenwood Press.
    Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in Mathematics.
• Bath Time with Archimedes
• Hobbes' Internet Timeline
• Project Interactivate Image Tool
  

Sciences

• Carolyn Johnson. (2003) Greenwood Press.
    Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in the Sciences.
• Hippocratic Oath
• Virginia Apgar's paper outlining the Apgar Score
• Scientific Anomalies
• Watson and Crick's DNA Paper
•  Alexander Graham Bell's Notebooks Project
  

Visual Arts

• Pamela J. Eyerdam. (2003) Greenwood Press. 
  

          Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in Visual Arts.

• Architecture and Interior Design (LOC)
  

World Languages

• Grete Pasch, et.al. (2000) Greenwood Press.
    Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in World Languages.
• The State Hermitage Museum
• The Official Berlin Site
•  The Berlin Wall
  

World Literature

• Roxanne M. Kent-Drury. (2005) Greenwood Press. 
  

          Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in World Literature.

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PRIMARY SOURCE SUPER SITES

• American Memory Collection
  
• America's Story
  
• National Archives Digital Classroom
  
• Famous Speeches in History
  
• Repositories of Primary Sources
  
• Avalon Project
  
• Historical Census Browser
  
• USPTO Patent Applications
  
• BBC Legendary Interviews: Modern Writers
  
• Feeding America
  
• NYPL Digital
  
• AD*Access
  
• Discovery Education Streaming
  
• Blog Search Engine
  
• Google Blog Search
  
• Archive.org and The Wayback Machine
  
• Commons Project: Public Photography Collections 

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PRESENTATION SUPPORT MATERIALS

• Classroom Connect article (10/05): "Navigating Primary Source Materials on the Internet" (see below)
  
  

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• Presentation in a PDF file (see below), in a Picassa Web Album slideshow, and an RSS feed
  

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