Sourcing
How to Teach Sourcing: Tools for Teachers
Sourcing Tool
A thinking tool that helps students grow and show their understanding of sourcing.
Sourcing Feedback Form
Boost students’ sourcing skills with feedback on their historical thinking.
Primary Source Collection Placement
Quick access to all the primary source collections in OER Project courses.
Quick Sourcing Tool
Teach your students a quicker approach to sourcing, for when students need to source multiple documents at once.
Teach Sourcing: One-Minute PD Videos
How to Teach Sourcing
Help students slow down and ask the questions that historians ask so they don’t skip the thinking required in sourcing.
Teaching Sourcing with Multiple Sources
Strengthen students’ sourcing by asking them to compare two sources side-by-side.
How to Analyze Historical Sources in High School
Go beyond categorizing sources by asking students what each type of source reveals and what it can hide.
Better Sourcing Questions in Middle School
Push students to question a source’s purpose, audience, and point of view.
Common Sourcing Myths and Misconceptions
When students assume older sources are more reliable, or that biased sources are unusable, turn those misconceptions into jumping off points for analysis.
How to Source Data Before Making a Claim
Data visualizations are built from decisions. Teach students to ask where data comes from, and why and how the data was displayed this way.
How to Teach Students to Source Social Media Posts
Guide students to slow their scrolling down with questions so they determine whether to trust, question, share, or ignore a post.
Teacher Chat: Sourcing
Blog: How Do Historians Find Their Sources?
The high-profile Louvre heist is a powerful hook for exploring who owns the past and for understanding the importance of historical context.
PD Video: Primary Source Power
Make the most of each source with an approach to power student analysis. Find the video in our Teaching Moves collection.
Classroom Connection: Primary-Source Power!
Educators share strategies to help students fine tune their sourcing skills.
Primary Sources and Comparison
Dive into this engaging teacher conversation with ideas on pairing primary sources and comparison activities.
Teach Tomorrow: Lessons on Sourcing
Sourcing Activities and Resources
Sourcing: Rome and Han Dynasty China
Images of the Industrial Revolution
Sourcing: Who Started the Cold War?
Source Collection: The Ancient World
Source Collection: The Black Death
