The
Idaho Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in Idaho. We have created a
FREE Online Teacher’s Guide for Primary Sources to help you to teach primary sources more effectively and use creative strategies for integrating primary source materials into your classroom. This
FREE Online Teacher's Guide for Primary Sources is 15 pages. It includes teacher tools, student handouts, and student worksheets. Click
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FREE Online Teacher's Guide for Primary Sources.
The Idaho Primary Sources will help your students build common core skills including:
• Analysis
• Critical Thinking
• Point of View
• Compare and Contrast
• Order of Events
• And Much More!
Perfect for gallery walks and literature circles! Great research and reference materials!
The 20
Idaho Primary Sources are:
• Photograph of Bannock Indians in Idaho – 1800s
• Shoshone scout Rabbit-Tail – circa mid 1800s
• Seal of the Territory of Idaho – 1863-1866
• Map showing the flight of the Nez Perce – 1877
• Photograph of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe – circa late 1800s
• Great Seal of the State of Idaho – only state seal designed by a woman, Emma Edwards Green – adopted 1890
• Photograph of Silver City, Idaho, in 1892 – important gold and silver mining town in the 1880s
• Painting of Lewis and Clark Expedition on the Lower Columbia River – shows Sacagawea attempting to use sign language to communicate with other Indians – 1905
• Photograph of men working in lead mine – Coeur d’Alene area – 1909
• Photograph of Wallace, Idaho, after the Great Fire of 1910
• Photograph of placer mining in Boise National Forest – 1929
• Photograph of Philo Farnsworth, known as the "Father of Modern Television" - grew up in Rigby, Idaho – 1939
• Postcard print of J.R. Simplot Company’s potato dehydrating plant in Caldwell, Idaho – plant supplied dried potatoes and vegetables to U.S. troops in WWII – circa 1940
• Photograph of flour mill in Caldwell, Idaho – wheat is important Idaho agricultural product –1941
• Cataldo Mission, also known as Sacred Heart Mission, Cataldo vicinity, Kootenai County, Idaho – 1957
• Photograph of Lemhi Pass taken in 2002 – where Lewis and Clark crossed the Continental Divide
• Photograph showing ruts made by wagons and settlers along the Oregon Trail – preserved in Idaho’s Massacre Rocks State Park – 2004
• Aerial photograph of Hells Canyon Dam – provides hydroelectricity to Idaho – photo taken 2007• Elevation map of Idaho – 2007
• Population density map of Idaho - 2010
Your students will:
• think critically and analytically, interpret events, and question various perspectives of history.
• participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations instead of memorizing facts and a writer’s interpretations.
• integrate and evaluate information provided in diverse media formats to deepen their understanding of historical events.
• experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience.
Each primary resource is printed on sturdy 8.5" X 11" cardstock.