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ELED 436 - Teaching Social Studies to Diverse Learners

What are Primary Sources?

  • First-hand accounts of a topic, from people who had a direct connection
  • Autobiographies
  • Newspaper reports from the period
  • Speeches, diaries, letters and interviews
  • Maps and Flags Photographs, video, or audio that capture an event
  • Music and sculpture

Primary Sources

Here are American History Primary Source Classroom Materials (State specific sets) link below.

Find your state and look at the primary sources available.

 

Primary Source Sets

 

Using Primary Sources with Kindergarten Students