This lesson plan will give you an understanding of the importance and use of sources and ways to identify which ones are reliable and trustworthy and why it’s recommended to use more than one.

This lesson is best suited for grades 6-8, but could be adapted for grades 9-12. Suggestions for adaptation include: include further primary and secondary sources for students to analyze (see ...

Why is considering multiple sources important when studying history? Use the following episodes or lesson plans from History Detectives to support/enhance the teaching of this lesson in your ...

What’s the evidence? What do other sources say? It also offers a crash course, A Little of Everything, with a half-dozen lessons that should take about an hour each, Breakstone said. Beside lateral ...