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This list highlights Thinkport Inquiry Kits that are great starting points for Revolution, Reaction, Reform.

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Once students have thought about a topic they like, this worksheet can help them narrow down their History Day topics.
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Youth Division is a scaled-down version of MHD and is designed to introduce students in the 4th and 5th grades to skills-driven history and civics education that students will continue to develop in middle and high school. Projects are completed based on the NHD annual theme and consist of virtual or physical posters, similar to the exhibit category of the Junior/Senior levels of NHD.

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Sign up for the Maryland History Day Teacher eNews to learn about professional development opportunities, upcoming deadlines, research resources, and other Maryland History Day news.

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This map was built with exhibits in mind, but it's helpful for all of the project categories! It breaks down the different sections of History Day projects with guiding questions.
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Unladylike2020 is a series of video biographies about 26 bold American women who broke barriers at the turn of the 20th century, and the women who now follow in their footsteps! The videos are engaging, inspiring, and filled with primary sources!

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Watch UNLADYLIKE2020 animated documentary shorts which tell the stories of 26 trailblazing heroines from the turn of the 20th century.

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Peer editing can be a great opportunity for students to work together, learn from each other, and improve their projects! This lesson plan walks through a way to introduce peer editing into a classroom!

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These Research Learning Modules are designed to help students in every step of the History Day process!

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These Research Learning Modules are designed to help students in every step of the History Day process!

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The kits are a great way to introduce elements of the History Day project to students, start lessons, build research and writing skills, and assess student understanding!

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Check out "Challenging School Segregation: The Chinese American Experience" on page 34 for a lesson from Maryland History Day teacher Amie Dryer!

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These websites all have searchable collections of primary sources online! They're a great place for students to search for primary sources about their History Day topics!

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The Maryland Center for History and Culture wants to make it easier to find sources for your History Day project! In this video, staff from MCHC will walk teachers and students through how to find, access, and utilize digital and in-person primary and secondary sources.

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National History Day Resources at the Maryland Center for History and Culture

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This is a template for an award to give to students who participate in History Day!
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Participation Award for History Day Students

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This webinar for teachers gives basic information about History Day, a breakdown of the steps students and teachers will take to complete the project, and tips for doing History Day with English learners.

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Webinar for New Maryland History Day Teachers

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The Process Paper is an opportunity for students to reflect on their work!
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This worksheet is built to help students plan their research process.
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Calling all History Day Teachers! Use this Jamboard to share your History Day tips and tricks, ask questions, get advice, offer feedback, and more!

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Check out our Elementary Inquiry Kits! Each kit has primary and secondary sources to analyze.

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Home - Special Collections - Teaching with Primary Sources - Elementary Inquiry Kits

Explore this collection of ten inquiry kits that lets elementary students study historical topics that interest them. Each kit has primary and secondary sources to analyze. From the Spanish conquest of Mexico to the invention of the braille reading and writing system, the inquiry kits examine social studies themes and align with Maryland curriculum units.

Select a unit below to find related topics as well as primary and secondary sources to develop a classroom research project.

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Thinkport.org | Special Collections | Teaching with Primary Sources

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Home - Special Collections - Teaching with Primary Sources - Elementary Inquiry Kits Explore this collection of ten inquiry kits that lets elementary students study historical topics that interest them. Each kit has primary and secondary sources to analyze.

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This mini-webinar is for teachers, it focuses on the benefits of doing History Day with English learners and offers some helpful tips!

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The MHD Team is happy to come visit your class to introduce Maryland History Day, or to help your students sharpen their existing skills. Schedule professional development sessions to prepare their teachers for History Day!

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Primary Sources and Project-Based Learning
Through a grant from the Library of Congress, Maryland Humanities is excited to offer two free online Teaching with Primary Sources summer institutes.

This summer, to accommodate distance learning while balancing busy schedules and a year of Zoom fatigue, we will be pacing the Summer Institute out over the course of four weeks. Over the four weeks, we will offer a combination of weekly synchronous Zoom meetings and asynchronous independent activities.

Participants will receive three MSDE credits. Space is limited, and successful applicants will be notified. All K-12 teachers, resources teachers, and librarians are welcome to apply. This year, priority will be given to teachers of ELs. Please note that if you took Primary Sources and Project-Based Learning in the past, you may not receive the MSDE credit again.
Summer Institute with Salisbury University, July 6-27, with synchronous sessions Tuesday mornings
For our institute in partnership with Salisbury University, K-12 teachers are invited to join us for an interactive research experience with a focus on Maryland, Eastern Shore, and Delmarva history. Participants will choose a research topic and do in-depth research using online collections from the Library of Congress and the Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture. Learn about researching local history, get familiar with the National History Day 2022 theme, and complete a mini-research project to share with your students. Discover free teaching resources including Thinkport Inquiry Kits, developed in partnership with Maryland Humanities, Maryland Public Television, and the Maryland State Department of Education.
Preview an outline of the weekly schedule here. Summer Institute with the National Archives at College Park, July 7-28, with synchronous sessions Wednesday mornings
Our institute in partnership with the National Archives at College Park, MD will welcome K-12 educators for a research experience focused on exploring the National Archives. Participants will choose a research topic and explore primary sources from the Library of Congress and the National Archives' online collections. Work with digital resources, learn about the National History Day 2022 theme, and complete your own mini-research project to take back to your classroom. Explore free teaching resources including DocsTeach from the National Archives and Thinkport Inquiry Kits, developed in partnership with Maryland Humanities, Maryland Public Television, and the Maryland State Department of Education.
Preview an outline of the weekly schedule here. Sign up for our summer institutes here.

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Primary Sources and Project-Based Learning Through a grant from the Library of Congress, Maryland Humanities is excited to offer two free online Teaching with Primary Sources summer institutes. This summer, to accommodate distance learning while balancing busy schedules and a year of Zoom fatigue, we will be pacing the Summer Institute out over the course of four weeks.

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Isabella Altherr, Program Assistant

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NEW! MHD for English Learners Lesson Plans

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NEW! MHD for English Learners Lesson Plans

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Print this calendar and use it in the classroom to share important dates for your school's contest!

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This resource offers a variety of lesson plans that focus on different aspects of 9/11 including resources to plan service projects with your students.

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This presentation can help your student choose a category for their project!
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Use this worksheet to help students outline their project and incorporate evidence into their project.
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The handouts below get into the details of the various project categories students can make for History Day. They also include helpful checklists to help students keep track of their work!

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This short tutorial explores the Thinkport Inquiry Kits, primary source sets for K-12 instruction and research. Visit the Inquiry Kits at https://www.thinkport.org/tps.

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Project Samples from National History Day!

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2nd Place Senior Individual Documentary Sophia Alleman, FDR and REA: Bright Light and Power to Rural America Watch Documentary Ursuline High School Youngstown, Ohio Process Paper and Bibliography 3rd Place Senior Individual Documentary Giuliana Alleva, "Don't Buy Where You Can't Work:" Leon Sullivan's Fight Against Job Discrimination Watch Documentary Julia R.

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The annotated bibliography is a tricky part of History Day for many students. Help them build their bibliography as they do their research!
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Building Social Consciousness through History Day Projects

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Thinkport Research Learning Module 1: Using Primary and Secondary Sources

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In the following activities, you will learn the difference between a primary source and a secondary source and identify examples of each type. You will also make connections between the primary and secondary sources Jasmine chooses for her research project on the life of Harriet Tubman.

Lesson Objectives
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

Define a primary source and a secondary source.

Recognize the difference between a primary and a secondary historical source.

Explain your choice of primary and secondary sources for a research project.

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These robust, ready-to-use classroom lessons offer breadth and depth, spanning essential social justice topics and reinforcing critical social emotional learning skills.

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For young white students, explorations of fair and unfair, just and unjust, can go a long way in advancing anti-racist white identity. Purposeful use of literature and basic study of white anti-racists are among the key ways educators can advance such aims.Teaching Tolerance presents four short biographies for early grades classrooms, with activity ideas.

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These robust, ready-to-use classroom lessons offer breadth and depth, spanning essential social justice topics and reinforcing critical social emotional learning skills.

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The Library of Congress has a huge collection of photos, documents, videos, oral histories, and more! The Library also has a variety of lesson plans and activities built around primary sources.

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Use the largest library in the world online or in person! More about the Library.

Free to Use and Reuse: Native American Heritage Month

Selected images represent the historical experiences and achievements of indigenous peoples across North America. A formal celebration of Native American heritage occurs each year in the United States in November. Unless otherwise noted, the images here are from the Prints & Photographs Division.

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The world's largest library. View historic photos, maps, books and more. Contact experts for help with research. Plan a visit. Home of U.S. Copyright Office.

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The Chesapeake Heartland Archive preserves, shares, curates, and interprets a materials that document the many facets of Maryland's African American history and culture.

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From the 16th to the 21st century, the Chesapeake region has been the heartland of the African American experience, and the materials inside this archive are a window into that incredible history and culture. Shared, curated, and interpreted by our community, this archive is neither static, still, nor complete. We invite everyone to contribute their materials, knowledge, and expertise to this ever-growing archive. As you explore its contents, please sign up as a user and share with future generations any information you might know about the materials, combine artifacts into presentations and teaching materials, and adapt and build upon them for non-commercial, educational purposes.

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The Interview Cafe is a great idea from History Day Colorado that encourages students to share and celebrate their work with their community!

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Students will create their websites on NHD's website builder, NHDWebCentral. Find instructions and videos on this page!

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Websites must be created in NHDWebCentral ® ( NHD Contest Rule Book, 6.5, E2). Any websites built on other platforms will need to be rebuilt at NHDWebCentral ®.

Absolutely! We encourage teachers to create websites to practice, learn, and grow with their students.

No, each group member must have their own account. Watch this video on registering as a group website. Using the same account as your group members can corrupt, overwrite, or delete your website.

If a group member is no longer part of your website, use the Contact Us form to request removal. Include your NHD teacher/mentor's name and email address. We'll talk to your teacher to confirm this group member's removal.

When working together, group members should edit different website pages. Editing the same page simultaneously will overwrite each other's work. After saving, group members can refresh to see the changes.

Images, videos, and documents often have large file sizes. Before uploading, check the file size and consider compressing, cropping, or reducing resolution. You can do this using free or paid software. If you've already uploaded large images, delete them from your file library and replace them with smaller versions on your page(s). Tip: To reduce file size without losing quality, take a screenshot of high-resolution images on your computer. Screenshots maintain quality while being much smaller in size.

Did you clear your file library to free up space? Uploaded images must stay in the library for the image block to display them; it can't show the image without it in the library.

This is where you can use columns to help align elements differently. Find various column options in NHDWebCentral® under "Easy Layout" in the Toolbox. Watch this video to help you with aligning elements.

No, embedded YouTube videos violate the NHD rules. Because the videos are being hosted on YouTube, they are not being counted towards the NHDWebCentral ® size limit. However, you can download videos using free tools and then upload them to your website using the Embed Multimedia block.

NHDWebCentral® only supports HTML/CSS, not JavaScript. If you use JavaScript in the editor, it won't work and will be removed.

In NHDWebCentral ®, saving is the same as publishing. When you save work on your website, it is pushed to the published site.

Enter your URL or site key in the registration form when prompted. Contact your affiliate coordinator for local website submission deadlines.

To allow others (like teachers or parents) to view your website, share the URL directly. The URL typically looks like this: https://site.nhd.org/15262633, and the site key is something like: 15262633.

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NHDWebCentral® Instructions - National History Day

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Start your NHD website project using NHDWebCentral®! We have step-by-step instructions and videos to help you every step of the way.

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Topic lists in our Teacher Resources Google Drive

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This webinar walks teachers and students through what a thesis statement is, what makes a thesis statement strong, and how to improve thesis statements!

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Check out this sample timeline for doing NHD in the classroom from an experienced Maryland teacher!
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This brainstorming activity encourages students to think about the 5 questions covered in the process paper!
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These search tips can be super helpful for students as they navigate online research!
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Search for activities on DocsTeach, refine by grade-level to find lessons and activities that the education team at National Archives have created specifically for elementary students!

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Document analysis is the first step in working with primary sources.

Use these worksheets — for photos, written documents, artifacts, posters, maps, cartoons, videos, and sound recordings — to teach your students the process of document analysis.

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Hojas de Ejercicios del Análisis de Documentos

Reseña del proceso analítico de un documento

Hojas de Ejercicios para Estudiantes Principiantes o Más Jóvenes, o para aprendices de inglés

Hojas de Ejercicios para Estudiantes Intermedios o Secundarios

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La Expedición de Lewis y Clark La Oficina de los Libertos El telegrama Zimmermann La Ley de Derechos Civiles de 1964 La Guerra en Vietnam: Una Historia en Fotografías Celebrando el Día de la Constitución Sufragio Femenino y la Decimonovena Enmienda Mensaje del General Eisenhower en caso de fracaso de la invasión del Dia-D La Desegregación escolar e historias sobre los derechos civiles, El condado de Orange, California Hojas de Ejercicios del Análisis de Documentos Reseña del proceso analítico de un documento Hojas de Ejercicios para Estudiantes Principiantes o Más Jóvenes, o para aprendices

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This presentation can help your students organize their projects!
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These One World Posters from Learning for Justice are all free and available for download!

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The One World posters featured in Learning for Justice magazine are a reader favorite, which is why we’re making them available for download.

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Students ask for sample citations and annotations all the time! Here are some you can show them!
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Best Practices for Socially Conscious Language in History Day Projects

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Thinkport Research Learning Module 2: Analyzing Primary Documents

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Analyzing Primary Documents
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Let's start with a quick review of the definition for primary source. Here's my friend Jasmine with a reminder.

A primary source is a piece of information about a historical event or period that was created at the same time as the event itself. Its purpose is to capture the words, the thoughts and feelings of the past. Primary sources help you understand what happened and why it happened.

Primary sources aren't just books. They can be any written documents or actual items created during a historical period. Some examples are:

Letters

Diary entries

Maps

Official records, such as birth certificates or marriage licenses

Personal items, such as clothes, tools or coins

In the following activities, you will learn how to examine primary sources, especially photographs, by making observations, taking time to reflect, and asking questions about the source.

Lesson Objectives
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

Analyze primary sources using the Observe, Reflect and Question process.

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Analyzing Primary Documents > Text version for video Let's start with a quick review of the definition for primary source. Here's my friend Jasmine with a reminder. A primary source is a piece of information about a historical event or period that was created at the same time as the event itself.

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This database of teacher-created resources is your source of inspiration for primary source driven teaching across the curriculum.

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Ideas, Activities, and Plans

Lesson Plans, Units, PD Plans, Activities, and Book Backdrops to engage and empower your students.
This vetted searchable database of teacher-created resources is your source of inspiration for primary source driven teaching across the curriculum. Find just the right resource and then let us know how you used it:

Content created and featured in partnership with the TPS program
does not indicate an endorsement by the Library of Congress. Citations for TPS Eastern Region Publications

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Lesson Plans, Units, PD Plans, Activities, and Book Backdrops to engage and empower your students. This vetted searchable database of teacher-created resources is your source of inspiration for primary source driven teaching across the curriculum.

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Docsteach presents a large selection of some of the National Archives most useful primary sources. Docsteach also has a variety of lesson plans and activities built around primary sources.

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Access thousands of primary sources - letters, photographs, speeches, posters, maps, videos, and other document types - spanning the course of American history. We're always adding more!

Borrow from an ever-expanding collection of document-based activities created by the National Archives, and teachers around the world. Copy and modify activities for your students.

Create your own activities using the online tools. It's as simple as: (1) selecting a tool, (2) choosing your primary sources, and (3) customizing instructions. Learn more >

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Digital Maryland is a collaborative, statewide digital preservation program of the Enoch Pratt Free Library/Maryland State Library Resource Center.

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Use this resource to help plan a school History Day Contest/Celebration!
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This worksheet breaks down the thesis for students step by step.

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Join NHD staff and coordinators for an introduction to the 2026 theme!

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2026 National History Day Theme Video: Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History

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Sample Timeline for History Day in the Classroom

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This worksheet breaks down note-taking for students, encouraging students to analyze and connect their notes to specific parts of their History Day projects.
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Document analysis is the first step in working with primary sources. Teach your students to think through primary source documents for contextual understanding and to extract information to make informed judgments.
Follow this progression:
Use these worksheets - for photos, written documents, artifacts, posters, maps, cartoons, videos, and sound recordings - to teach your students the process of document analysis.

Don't stop with document analysis though. Analysis is just the foundation. Move on to activities in which students use the primary sources as historical evidence, like on DocsTeach.org.

The first few times you ask students to work with primary sources, and whenever you have not worked with primary sources recently, model careful document analysis using the worksheets. Point out that the steps are the same each time, for every type of primary source:

1. Meet the document.

2. Observe its parts.

3. Try to make sense of it.

4. Use it as historical evidence.

Once students have become familiar with using the worksheets, direct them to analyze documents as a class or in groups without the worksheets, vocalizing the four steps as they go.

Eventually, students will internalize the procedure and be able to go through these four steps on their own every time they encounter a primary source document. Remind students to practice this same careful analysis with every primary source they see.

Worksheet for Understanding Perspective in Primary Sources - For All Students and Document Types

This tool helps students identify perspective in primary sources and understand how backgrounds, beliefs, and experiences shape point of view.

Former Worksheets

These worksheets were revised in February, 2017. Please let us know if you have feedback. If you prefer the previous version of the worksheets, you can download them below.

Materials created by the National Archives and Records Administration are in the public domain.

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Rewordify is a free, online tool that improves simplifies difficult English to assist reader comprehension.

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Rewordify.com | Understand what you read

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Rewordify.com helps you read more, understand better, learn new words, and teach more effectively.

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Writing the Text of the History Day Project

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Join NHD (Jerald Crook, AL Coordinator), the National Museum of the American Indian (Mandy Van Heuvelen), and the National Museum of African American History and Culture (Candra Flanagan) for an NHD Quick Tip on avoiding cultural appropriation NHD performance.

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NHD Quick Tip: Cultural Appropriation (Performing Perspectives Series)

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Thinkport Research Learning Module 3: Writing a Thesis Statement

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Writing Your Thesis Statement Video
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In the following activities, you will learn how to develop an argument, or thesis statement. The thesis statement is the basis of your research project and explains why a historical person or event is important. You will also learn how to write your thesis statement so that it answers the questions, "Who? What? Where? When? Why does it matter?"

Lesson Objectives
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

Define thesis statement.

Identify key components of a thesis statement.

Compose a thesis statement based on the 5W questions.

Evaluate the quality of several thesis statements.

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Discover 43,859,516 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States. DPLA has collections, exhibitions, and primary source sets.

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DPLA provides free digital access to banned books

DPLA has launched The Banned Book Club to ensure that all readers have access to the books they want to read. The Banned Book Club makes e-book versions of banned books available to readers in locations across the United States where titles have been banned via the free Palace e-reader app.

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The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.

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National History Day research resources from Enoch Pratt Free Library.

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This worksheet helps students dig into more details of the topic selection process.
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Minnesota History Day put together this fun thesis Mad Libs for students drafting their thesis statement!
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A Pratt library card grants you access to databases for all ages! Search articles and documents in journals, newspapers, and online archives. Some databases require a library card, which is available to anybody who lives in Maryland.

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A Pratt library card grants you access to databases for all ages! Search articles and documents in journals, newspapers, and online archives. Some databases require a library card, which is available to anybody who lives in Maryland. Most databases are also available online from home, though some are only available in a Pratt Library.

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This Library of Congress website talks about history with primary sources and it's geared toward elementary school students!

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We invite you and your family to participate in these activities, inspired by the collections, programs, and expertise of the Library of Congress.

Author Programs

Activity Kits

The activities below require just a few simple items you can find easily around the house and items from the Library's website. Kids are encouraged to use their creativity to enhance, adapt, or recreate anything we share. Check back often for new activities and opportunities with engage with us!

All Ages

Ages 7-10

Ages 10-12

Printables

More Online Resources for Kids and Families

Imagination Library

View bedtime stories from Goodnight with Dolly External and Imagination Library story times at the Library of Congress. Imagination Library is a 2014 Library of Congress Literacy Awards Program Best Practice Honoree.

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Resources for Family Engagement from the Library of Congress | Library of Congress

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We invite you and your family to participate in these activities, inspired by the collections, programs, and expertise of the Library of Congress.

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Read&Write is a Google Chrome extension that provides personalized support to make documents, web pages and common file types in Google Drive (including: Google Docs, PDF & ePub) more accessible.

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Boost reading and writing confidence across all types of content and devices, in class, at work, and at home.

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This resource gives students a great map for writing their thesis statements!
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An annotated bibliography is an essential part of any NHD project. This gives an overview of what is expected in an annotated bibliography.

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What is an Annotated Bibliography? (Overview)

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Watch this clip from Performing Perspectives on how to avoid harmful stereotypes in your NHD performance.

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NHD Quick Tip: Harmful Stereotypes (Performing Perspectives Series)

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Thinkport Research Learning Module 4: Creating a Research Project

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Thinkport Research Learning Module 4: Creating a Research Project

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This module is for Grades: 8-12 Welcome

Creating Your Research Project Video
> Text version for video
In the following activities, you will learn how to organize your research into an outline with an introduction, body and conclusion along with a thesis statement. You will also learn about the different types of creative projects that you can make, like performances, papers, exhibits, documentaries and websites.

Lesson Objectives
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

Analyze different types of projects to see how they are organized.

Explain your choice for a specific type of project.

Develop an outline for a research project.

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Creating Your Research Project Video > Text version for video In the following activities, you will learn how to organize your research into an outline with an introduction, body and conclusion along with a thesis statement. You will also learn about the different types of creative projects that you can make, like performances, papers, exhibits, documentaries and websites.

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The WDL is a collaboration of libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations around the world! Search 19,147 items about 193 countries between 8000 BCE and 2000.

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This collection contains cultural heritage materials gathered during the World Digital Library (WDL) project, including thousands of items contributed by partner organizations worldwide as well as content from Library of Congress collections. The original World Digital Library site (preserved in LC's Web Archives here) and all descriptive metadata were translated from English and made available in six additional languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Russian, and Chinese. All item records include narrative descriptions submitted by the contributing partners and enhanced by WDL researchers to contextualize the item and its cultural and historical importance. Books, manuscripts, maps, and other primary materials in the WDL collection are presented in their original languages; more than 100 languages are represented, including many lesser known and endangered languages. Additionally, all World Digital Library metadata in each of the seven languages is available as a downloadable dataset.

Launched in 2009, the World Digital Library was a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, with the support of UNESCO, and contributions from libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations around the world. The WDL sought to preserve and share some of the world's most important cultural objects, increasing access to cultural treasures and significant historical documents to enable discovery, scholarship, and use.

WDL partner institutions selected content in accordance with guidelines set by the WDL Content Selection Committee. They chose content for its cultural and historical importance, with due regard to recognition of the achievements of all countries and cultures over a wide range of time periods. The materials collected by the WDL include cultural treasures and significant historical documents including books, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, journals, prints, photographs, sound recordings, and films.

Librarian of Congress James H. Billington proposed the establishment of the WDL in a speech to the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO in June 2005. The basic idea was to create an Internet-based, easily-accessible collection of the world's cultural riches that would tell the stories and highlight the achievements of all countries and cultures, thereby promoting cross-cultural awareness and understanding. UNESCO welcomed the idea as a contribution toward fulfilling its strategic objectives, which include promoting knowledge societies, building capacity in developing countries, and promoting cultural diversity on the web. UNESCO Director-General Koichiro Matsuura designated UNESCO's Directorate for Communication and Information, then led by Dr. Abdul Waheed Khan, to work with the Library of Congress to develop the project.

In December 2006, UNESCO and the Library of Congress convened an Experts Meeting at UNESCO headquarters in Paris to discuss the project. Experts from all parts of the world identified a number of challenges that the project would need to overcome to be successful. They noted that little cultural content was being digitized in many countries, and that developing countries in particular lacked the capacity to digitize and display their cultural treasures. Existing websites often had poorly developed search and display functions. Multilingual access was not well developed.

The Experts Meeting led to the establishment of working groups to develop guidelines for the project, and to a decision by the Library of Congress, UNESCO, and five partner institutions - the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the National Library of Brazil, the National Library and Archives of Egypt, the National Library of Russia, and the Russian State Library - to contribute content to a WDL prototype to be presented at the UNESCO General Conference in 2007. Input into the design of the prototype was solicited through a consultative process that involved UNESCO, the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), and individuals and institutions in more than forty countries. The successful unveiling of the prototype was followed by a decision by these institutions to develop a public, freely-accessible version of the WDL.

A team at the Library of Congress then developed the public, online version of the WDL, which was launched at UNESCO in April 2009. Twenty-six institutions contributed content to the launch version of the site. Launch partners included national libraries and cultural organizations in Brazil, China, Egypt, Mexico, Russia, France, Sweden, Uganda, the United States and other locations worldwide.

Following the launch, the WDL continued to add content to the site and to enlist new partners from all parts of the world. In April 2010, institutions and organizations contributing to the WDL adopted the WDL Charter, which established a permanent governance structure.

In 2020, the WDL Charter concluded. In 2021, after more than 10 years of operation, the Library transitioned WDL's world-wide collection of cross-cultural treasures into a sustainable home for perpetual access on the Library of Congress's main website. The original World Digital Library site is preserved by the Library of Congress Web Archive, which captures the look and feel of the site. Now available on the Library's main website, the collection is a rich and valuable resource showing the diversity of the world's cultures through the contributions of hundreds of organizations.

The Library of Congress has received multiple complaints of an individual claiming to be the director of the World Digital Library and soliciting freelance work for a $200 employment ID. Please be warned that the WDL's charter has ended and neither the Library of Congress nor the former World Digital Library has any connection with this scam.

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About this Collection | World Digital Library | Digital Collections | Library of Congress

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The Nabb Center has a great collection of materials about Maryland history, especially from the Eastern Shore!

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COVID-19 Precautions Continue for Summer

The Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture at Salisbury University is a humanities research laboratory for university students that also fulfills the historical resource needs of a variety of community researchers. Founded in 1982, it was endowed in 1998 by Edward H. Nabb, an attorney and philanthropist from Cambridge, Maryland and renamed in his honor.

Family and local researchers frequent the Nabb Research Center for its wealth of information on family and cultural history. Distinctive photograph and artifact collections bring the Eastern Shore of the past 150 years to life, offering insight into its traditions and heritage. Public presentations on historical topics, educational seminars and exhibits showcase the Shore's rich history and culture.

Our non-circulating library contains books, serials, archival and artifact collections relating to United States history, the greater Chesapeake region and the Delmarva Peninsula. Our extensive primary and secondary regional archival collection contains family histories, correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, ledgers, diaries, local business and organizational records, maps, newspapers, land surveys, oral histories and rare books. Included in our microfilm collection are governmental and church records pertaining mainly to Somerset, Worcester, Dorchester and Wicomico counties in Maryland; Accomack and Northampton counties in Virginia; and Sussex County in Delaware. Archaeological materials, furniture, vintage clothing and coverlets, household items, tools, and military memorabilia comprise a portion of our artifact collection and are used for classroom instruction and exhibits. One of our best resources is the specialized expertise of the Nabb Research Center staff.

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COVID-19 Precautions Continue for Summer The Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture at Salisbury University is a humanities research laboratory for university students that also fulfills the historical resource needs of a variety of community researchers. Founded in 1982, it was endowed in 1998 by Edward H.