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The World Digital Library is a resource that I started using back in 2009. At that time it was just a small collection of about 1,200 digitized primary source artifacts from libraries around the world. Today, the World Digital Library hosts more than 19,000 digitized primary source artifacts to view and download. 
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Explore some of the British Library’s greatest literary treasures from the Romantic and Victorian periods toegether with articles, films and teachers' notes.
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This is a cool tool for finding archived newspapers from at least one hundred years ago via a Google news search. Particularly, as examining primary source documents can be an effective component of Common Core instruction, I hope you’ll find this useful. - See more at: http://creatinglifelonglearners.com/?p=1212#sthash.vCvVgH4V.dpuf
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Wondering how to get your students to use and analyze primary sources instead of their beloved Wikipedia? Here are some great resources for primary sources.
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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.
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Today I am sharing with you an excellent tool called Docs Teach from The National Archive that allows you to create primary source activities for your class. The seven activity-creation tools provided by Docs Teach help students develop historical thinking skills and gets them thinking like historians. Choose one of the tools below to begin.
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The Google News archive is a great place to find primary sources. This short tutorial shows students how the archive works.
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Why is inquiry important for student learning? Inquiry is a process of active learning that is driven by questioning and critical thinking. The understandings that students develop through inquiry are deeper and longer lasting than any pre-packaged knowledge delivered by teachers to students. Inquiry-based learning follows a process that progresses through phases, but is recursive and reflective throughout. The six phases and their thought processes are detailed in the following diagram.
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