SOCIAL STUDIES CBAS PRIMARY RESOURCES

Primary sources are artifacts, original or facsimiles of documents, maps, diaries and items from a historical time period.

They are important to the Social Studies CBAs and EALRs.

Library of Congress - teaching primary sources lessons and information http://www.primarysourcelearning.org

Smithsonian Teaching with Primary Sources includes videos, DBQs and samples

National Archives education lessons

Web sites that show the power of using primary resources include:

• Martha Ballard Diary - includes teaching tools such as the magnifier/translator that shows the original diary and changes it into an easy-to-read font. Students can even try their own interpretation of the original script.

• Diary of Opal Whiteley - the diary of a young girl in Oregon at the end of the 19th century, including teacher's guides, a timeline and more

• Discovery School multi-year project for students to research and post Spokane History information

• Valley of the Shadow- 2 communities divided during the American Civil War. Told through primary documents.

Primary Source Collections in the Pacific Northwest by Nancy Bunker ( Greenwood 2005 9781591581277 ) covers all the museums and historical collections with details about their unique collections and access to online resources, if available. Nancy is a reference librarian at Whitworth College.

Explanation of Primary and Secondary Sources (download PowerPoint)

Marianne Hunter Timberline High School, North Thurston, Lacey, WA

Texts of American History documents

Washington State Historical Society searchable artifact finder

Washington State Library Historical information- newspapers, timeline, original state constitution and more

Pacific Alaska Region of the National Archives-- Links to CBAs and Our Documents

Washington State Library Rural Heritage Project- documents and images from Ritzville, Whitman County, Thurston County and Governors of Washington State

Judy Pitchford, Washington State Library, presented at WLMA 2005 conference

• primary print resources

• primary online resources

• Washington museums with educational programs

• museums with traveling boxes

Archival Activity Guide for primary resources by ischool students presented at the WLMA 2004 conference- Linda Corets, Shannon Lynch, Noella Natalion, and Marjorie Ann Reeves

• Joyce Valenza's  Pathfinder Wiki primary sources
  

• Library of Congress - American Memories - Focused topic searching guide digital artifacts with teacher lessons and help - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
  

• National Archives - http://www.archives.gov/education/index.html

  • National Archives video on Google - http://video.google.com/nara.html

  • National Archives (U.S. artifact analysis sheets and lessons) http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/

  • National Archives (Great Britain) - http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/

• Northwest Digital Archives http://nwda.wsulibs.wsu.edu/

• Regional Archives Pacific Alaska in Seattle - http://www.archives.gov/pacific-alaska/seattle/education/

• Regional Universities

  • University of Idaho Special Collections Library - Digital History Primary Resources

  • University of Washington Libraries - http://content.lib.washington.edu/

  • Washington State University Libraries - http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/digital/

• Washington State Historical Society tools of the trade - http://www.historylab.org/curriculum/tools_resource_kit.htm

• Wenatchee SD list of primary sources - http://pio.wsd.wednet.edu/library/primarysources.html

• Culturally Responsible Curriculum for Secondary Schools- Evergreen University

• William and Mary Teaching Model (scroll down for two versions of teaching primary sources and research model) has analyzing primary sources and questions to help students critically examine information. There is a chart that guides studies through the process.

• Center for History and New Media contains 1000 of primary source documents, audio, and images. Their are lists of annotated American History web sites and material for high school and college American history survey classes.

• Primary Source materials and Document Based Questions from Advanced Placement History courses

• ALA- ACRL History Section maintains sources for using primary sources on the web