Digital Primary Sources


Primary sources are a valuable resource to use in lesson plans because
they force students to use critical thinking and teach students in a way
that seems more real and fascinating because primary sources are actual
historical relics.

One extremely well-done digital primary source is the Virginia Center for
Digital History.  This website can be found at http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/research.html
When looking at this website, I focused on the Valley of the Shadow project in particular.

The Virginia Center for Digital History and other digital primary sources
like it can be especially helpful when teaching with the ideas of inquiry based
learning and historical thinking in mind.

For more information on inquiry based learning and historical thinking, refer to these websites.

Inquiry Based Learning
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/inquiry/index.html

Historical Thinking
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Historical_thinking





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