Primary sources activities

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!

Using primary sources to teach history can be challenging. Use these valuable tips to bring more primary sources into your teaching.

Teach Starter offers a range of time-saving, educational teaching resources for elementary school teachers. Download unit and lesson plans, educational posters, classroom games and activities, worksheets and more!

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

An overview of primary source document analysis activities and lesson plans for US History classrooms.

Resources and tips for locating and selecting primary sources to teach Virginia Studies

These FREE differentiated cube templates are an easy and fun way for students to practice analyzing primary sources! The questions on the cubes work with any primary source and will really get elementary students thinking and talking!

5 powerful primary sources to help middle school students understand the 13 Colonies (5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade). Worksheets included.

Teaching with primary sources is one of those tricky things. I feel like we’re always told to include them, and it seems like a simple request. But are we making the best of them? Can we push past observation and push towards historical thinking and analysis? That’s where the tricky part comes in: