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Loc: History Firsthand: Primary Source Research Unit PlanLoc: History Firsthand: Primary Source Research Unit Plan
Publisher
Library of Congress
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2nd - 8th
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English Language Arts
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1180L
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Loc: History Firsthand: Primary Source Research

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History Firsthand has been designed to provide elementary children with experiences which enable them to begin understanding primary sources. Students move from personal artifacts to the vast American Memory collections and learn how archival collections are organized, how to interpret artifacts and documents, how to use primary sources to tell a real story, and how to do on-line research.

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CCSS: Adaptable

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primary sources

Additional Tags

analyzing primary source documents, different interpretations, expert sources, historical interpretation, library of congress, online research, primary source document, reliable sources, sources, analyze the relationship between a primary and secondary source on the same topic., ccss.ela-literacy.rh.6-8.1 cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources., ccss.ela-literacy.rh.6-8.9, library of congress: history firsthand: primary source research, history, primary source, research

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional|practice
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Common Core

RH.6-8.1 RH.6-8.9 W.3.8 W.4.8 RST.6-8.9 RH.6-8.2 W.5.8 RH.6-8.6 W.2.8 RI.6.9 RH.6-8.3 RI.5.7

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