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PPT
Curated OER

Documenting Sources: An Introduction to Incorporating and Documenting Outside Sources in Your Writing

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Searching Specialized Databases: The Invisible Web

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Learners examine the useful information to be found on the "invisible web." They find the best sources of relevant information.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Japanese Princess

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Historians Interpret Sources

For Teachers 7th - 9th
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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Graphic
Latimer Clarke Corporation

Atlapedia Online

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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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Handout
Other

National Council on Public History: Evidence of the Past

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Understand how historians are like detectives- studying evidence from the past.