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Library Read UC Berkeley's ideas on evaluating Web sources. In this activity, students design personal "archival boxes" with pictures, poems, essays, maps, timelines, and stories about their families. Using Primary Sources In the Classroom Find suggestions for using primary source documents and suggestions on how "student activities can help you enhance your social studies curriculum using authentic artifacts, documents, photographs, and manuscripts from the Library of Congress Historical Collections and other sources." The New Jersey Historical Society offers four sample lessons online that illustrate wise instructional use of primary source documents. Using Primary Source Documents In the Classroom From the Ohio Historical Society, this site contains a general lesson plan that can serve as a starting point for original class activities. Using Primary Sources on the Internet to Teach and Learn History Deanne Shiroma's article for ERIC briefly addresses the types of primary sources and outlines how to locate sources online. Above links provided by |