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Teaching with Textbooks
Lessons in which students compare secondary sources are a challenge for me to set up. This entry about comparing textbook accounts helped a lot!
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9-12 Resources
Pre-1865
Theodore Roosevelt and the 1912 Election 
Students learn more about the larger than life figure of Theodore Roosevelt[...] »
Labor and Trade in Colonial America 
Was colonial trade really triangular? What kinds of work did colonists do,[...] »
Post-1865
1916 Children's Code of Morality: A Guide for Pre-Service Teachers 
Primary sources from the Library of Congress help students explore a[...] »
Close Reading of a Primary Document 
On the website Historical Thinking Matters, a student reads aloud a[...] »
Classroom Tools
Historical Thinking & Literacy
Using Historical Ephemera in the Classroom
Ticket stubs. Report cards. Photographs. All of these things have historical[...] »
Using Technology
Primary Source Sets on the Web
Check out these sites for primary sources grouped into sets by topic, grade-[...] »