Resources for Primary Source Based Lesson Planning

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BibSite is an open access digital repository for discovering and sharing bibliographical research and pedagogical materials by the Bibliographical Society of America.

The American Historical Association’s Resource Library includes hundreds of resources ranging from classroom syllabi, to archival documents, to standards and guidelines for the discipline.

The National Council of Teachers of English’s ReadWriteThink hosts standards-aligned lesson plans, teaching materials, and professional learning resources. There is a Primary Sources section.

Framework-aligned K-12 Critical Inquiries by the National Council for the Social Studies’ Teacher Education Research Collective (TERC).

PRIMO (Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online Database) promotes and shares peer-reviewed instructional materials created by librarians to teach people about discovering, accessing, ethically using and evaluating information. The responsible committee from the Instruction Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries “will be refreshing its approach… in 2024-2025.”