Primary and secondary sources activity

Tips for helping your students understand the difference between primary and secondary sources, along with a free poster set!

Primary and secondary sources can be interesting for your upper elementary students! This blog post shares teacher-tested activities for this tricky topic.

Finding the right set of learning materials to suit your kid's young and free-spirited soul is difficult but providing them with resources that will spark their interest and eagerness to learn is an easy solution that you can find here. Thanks to these primary and secondary source activities, teachers and parents can quench their hunger for learning when kids are in the mood for some exciting and engaging activities. Check out these 40 digital and printable primary and secondary sources and…

Grammar review doesn't have to be boring and monotonous! Get kids up and moving with this print and go, classroom-tested interactive game for reviewing primary and secondary sources that comes in printable and an interactive digital format. Student Experience: Students will learn with movement as they review primary and secondary sources. Give students one or more cards, and they will identify and sort the type of source on the card. I've now included a digital version of the activity that…

H i friends! Happy Weekend! :) Next week, my kid dos will be taking a test on hodgepodge of skills in social studies. I 'm talking prim...

As a fifth grade inclusion teacher, I try to make a lot of my social studies lessons hands-on.

As we begin to move into our exploration unit, we are first looking at primary and secondary sources to make sure we have a good handle on w...

Are you ready to implement primary sources in your elementary classroom? In this blog post, I'm sharing why you should use primary sources, how to introduce them, simple ways to use them in your classroom, and more! If you aren't sure where to find primary sources that you can use for your social studies lessons, I'm including that as well! Read my blog post to get all of the ideas, tips, and resources!

This website talks about students having historical thinking skills and disciplinary literacy when learning social studies through using primary sources. It also does a great job covering some of the challenges you might face with this strategy in the classroom.

Bring history to life in your classroom! Instead of just reading through a textbook or lecturing, allow your students to become historians within your own classroom through primary source analysis. Here are five ways to get your students to actively and skillfully conceptualize and evaluate information.