Primary Sources

Overview

Create a rich learning environment and provide students with a deeper and more comprehensive view of historical events by utilizing our Primary Sources kits with your social studies instruction.

• Help students grasp historical concepts and spark critical thinking by encouraging them to examine the authentically recreated documents and photograph cards from each time period.
• Decrease prep time with lesson plans organized with objectives, materials, discussion questions, suggestions for using the primary sources, and extension ideas.
• Prepare students for a variety of standardized testing situations with document-based assessments provided in the Teacher's Guide.
• Expand students' historical thinking, while keeping them engaged, by incorporating vivid photographs and realistic primary sources.
• Create a blended learning environment with digital resources including additional primary source documents and photograph cards, as well as activities to support and enrich each lesson.