The
New Hampshire Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in New Hampshire. 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 New Hampshire 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
New Hampshire Primary Sources are:
1. Map of New Hampshire – 1796
2. Portrait of New Hampshire Colonial Governor John Wentworth by colonial painter John Singleton Copley – 1796
3. Diagram of the south part of Shaker Village, Canterbury, New Hampshire –1849
4. Photograph of Franklin Pierce, New Hampshire native and 14th President of the United States – circa 1853
5. Engraving depicting Franklin Pierce leaving Willard's Hotel in Washington, D.C., on his inauguration day – Pierce was the first president to recite his inauguration speech entirely from memory – March 4, 1853
6. Photograph of Private Albert H. Davis of Company K, 6th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment in uniform, with rifle, sword bayonet, knapsack with bedroll, canteen, and haversack – 1861
7. Photograph of 5th New Hampshire Infantry building a bridge in Virginia during the Civil War – 1862
8. Photograph of envelope mailed during Civil War displaying emblem of the 14th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment – circa 1862
9. Photograph of soldiers performing bayonet drill in front of USS New Hampshire – circa 1900
10. Photograph of workers at New England granite quarry – New Hampshire known as "The Granite State" - 1908
11. WWI Red Cross poster – circa 1914
12. Photograph of suffragist Sallie W. Hovey – Chairman, New Hampshire National Woman's Party – circa 1917
13. Photograph of pulpwood (wood used in making pulp for paper production) piled high in Groveton, New Hampshire – 1936
14. Photograph of children of paper mill workers bringing home groceries in Berlin, New Hampshire – largely inhabited by French Canadian and Scandinavian immigrants – circa 1939
15. Photograph of astronaut and New Hampshire native Alan Shepard in capsule aboard Freedom 7 before launch – Shepard was first American in space – 1961
16. Photograph of New Hampshire high school teacher Christa McAuliffe experiencing weightlessness in NASA training – McAuliffe became first teacher in space – 1986
17. Photograph of Old Man of the Mountain rock formation in the White Mountains taken one week before it collapsed in 2003
18. Photograph of statue of New Hampshire native and Revolutionary War hero John Stark – statue stands in Stark Park in Manchester – photo taken 2009
19. Population density map of New Hampshire – 2010
20. Great Seal of the State of New Hampshire
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.