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Documenting Sources: An Introduction to Incorporating and Documenting Outside Sources in Your Writing
Text heavy, the 16 slides in this presentation provide specific examples to introduce researchers to documenting outside sources in expository writing. A follow-up activity or worksheet would provide an opportunity for guided practice.
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Searching Specialized Databases: The Invisible Web
Learners examine the useful information to be found on the "invisible web." They find the best sources of relevant information.
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Japanese Princess
Students are shown a picture of a princess. They are asked if they would like to live her life? Students are asked what or the advantages and disadvantages of being a princess. They are given a list of vocabulary that they are using...
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Historians Interpret Sources
Students read excerpts from the historian Conover Hunt writing about John F. Kennedy and from primary source documents using the handout: Historical Sources and Historians. Students discuss and identify source types, evaluate sources,...
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Atlapedia Online
This site provides both physical and political maps of countries of the world in full color. Also contains key facts and statistics.
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National Council on Public History: Evidence of the Past
Understand how historians are like detectives- studying evidence from the past.