Primary Source Learning: K-2
Analyzing Primary Sources: Early Elementary (K-2) Image Analysis Choice Board
Analyzing Primary Sources: Sensory Exploration
Analyzing Primary Sources: Elementary Image & Text Analysis Sheets
Analyzing Primary Sources: Kindergarten Writing Prompts & Activities
Engaging Young Learners with Primary Sources video
Guided primary source analysis activities
- Gauchos, Argentina
- Grandma’s Toilet
- Lessons for My Community
- Little Rory Borealis
- Twentieth-century transportation
- What do you hear?
Abraham Lincoln & Me Activity Book
Community Helpers Then & Now Primary Source Set
KidCitizen digital interactive episodes
- What Are Primary Sources?
- A Bird’s Eye View: Wondering with Maps
- Capture the Flag
- Children in Action
- A Close Look at the Miyatake Family
- Community Helpers
- Congress and Milk
- National Parks
- Rosa Parks: A Proud Daughter
- Welcome to Congress
History’s Mysteries: Kindergarten
- What is the difference between then and now?
- Where do people work?
- How is work different now than in the past?
- Where is the history in a name?
- What shared traditions make your family special?
- Why do we have a day off from school?
- How does a tradition become a holiday?
- How do communities make good decisions?
- What does is mean to belong to a group?
- What does is mean to be a good citizen?
- How do groups make decisions?
- What makes someone a good leader?
- What made people think George Washington would be a good leader?
- Do good leaders always do good things?
- Why do we need maps?
- What’s the difference between a map and a globe?
- How can a map help get us where we want to go?
- What are the parts of a map and what do they tell us?
- How does a map show the relationship between people and the environment?
- Why do people move?
- What are push and pull factors?
- Why do people move to a new home?
- Who is a refugee?
- What was the Great Migration?
- What is culture?
- How did the Clotilda Africans learn their Yoruba cultural values and traditions as children?
- How did Yoruba cultural values help Mr. Lewis and the Clotilda Africans through difficult times?
- How did Yoruba cultural values influence the building of Africatown?
Kindergarten Historians: Primary Sources in an Early Elementary Classroom Teaching with the Library
Kindergarten Historians video
Kindergarten Music – 5 Image Opening Day Activity
K-5 Primary Source Toolkit Iowa State Historical Society
The Life Cycle of Plants – A Gallery Walk for Kindergarten Students
Literature Links: And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
Picture Books & Primary Sources AASL blog posts by Tom Bober
Primary Sources for the Primary Classroom Teaching with the Library of Congress blog posts
Thanksgiving Then & Now – a historic newspaper exercise for kindergartenYoung Learners Explore Library of Congress Images video
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