Analyzing Primary Source Worksheet Collection--Stolen, er, "borrowed" from the social studies guru Glenn Wiebe's website "History Tech." These teacher guides, primary source analysis handouts, and other resources are a necessity for teachers like myself who love to work with primary sources.
P.E.R.S.I.A.--Stands for Political, Economic, Religious, Social, Intellectual, and Artistic aspects of a historical topic. This worksheet can be adjusted to include analysis of primary sources.




A.P.P.A.R.T.S. Strategy--Stands for Author, Place and Time, Prior Knowledge, Audience, Reason, The Main Idea, and Significance. This strategy will really help students to become experts at analyzing primary sources.
EDSITEment Tools for Analyzing Primary Sources and Close Readings--collection of various graphic organizers and worksheets to help students organize and analyze primary sources.
Learn NC Primary Source Strategies--This collection of resources includes best practice articles, primary source process guides, lesson plans that model historical inquiry, and book-length materials that incorporate primary sources.
Flow of History: A modeling of various primary source analysis activities.
World History Sources Model Questions: Sample questions to use with each type of primary source.
Facing History and Ourselves: Primary source analysis strategies and activities.

Flow of History: A modeling of various primary source analysis activities.
World History Sources Model Questions: Sample questions to use with each type of primary source.

Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Collection--Helpful tutorials of how to navigate the Library of Congress site as well as compilation lists of primary sources by historical topic.
SOAPSTONE Strategy: Stands for Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject and Tone. Helps students chunk primary sources in a more manageable way.