Primary Source Learning: K-2
Analyzing Primary Sources: Early Elementary (K-2) Image Analysis Choice Board
Analyzing Primary Sources: Sensory Exploration
Connecting to the Common Core: 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?
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?
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
Kindergarten Historians: Primary Sources in an Early Elementary Classroom Teaching with the Library of Congress March 12, 2013
Kindergarten Historians video
Kindergarten Music – 5 Image Opening Day Activity
Learning from the Source lessons
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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