Lesson Plan Guidelines

Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy (Society of American Archivists)

Mapping the Guidelines: A Sample Scope and Sequence for the Primary Source Literacy Guidelines 

Ethically Teaching Primary Sources that Reflect Histories of Violence, Hate, and Oppression

Generic Lesson Plans

These generic lesson plans focus on the critical analysis of primary sources practiced by scholars while conducting historical research in an archives reading room or virtually online with tools such as UPLINK.

Archival Citation (How to create proper footnotes and bibliographies of primary sources)
 

General Primary Source Analysis and Interpretation 

• Lesson Plan
• Document Analysis Worksheet
• Document 1
• Document 2
   

Oral History Analysis and Interpretation 

• Lesson Plan
• Analysis Worksheet
   

Photographic Analysis and Interpretation 

• Lesson Plan
• Photographic Analysis Worksheet
   

A Generic Lesson Plan Template (TPS Collective)

Transcription and Annotation of Historical Correspondence

This exercise uses Tropy, a free note-taking program.

Topical Lesson Plans

Primary Source Workshop: introducing undergrads to the concepts of “archives” and “primary source research” (TPS Collective)
 

History of the Environmental Conservation Movement: presenting primary sources that represent a historical context and different points of view (TPS Collective)
 

Analyzing Sources Related to Local Indigenous Groups: analyzing and dating photographs and documents connected to a marginalized group (TPS Collective)
 

Assessment Tools

Introduction to Assessment (TPS Collective)
 

Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy Assessment Rubric (TPS Collective)