Utah Primary Sources

The Utah Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in Utah. 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 HERE to download the FREE Online Teacher's Guide for Primary Sources.

The Utah 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 Utah Primary Sources are:
• Illustration of Jim Bridger, mountain man thought to be first European-American to see the Great Salt Lake – circa 1820
• Copy of first page of message from President Millard Fillmore nominating territorial officers of Utah, including Brigham Young to serve as Governor of the Territory of Utah – 1850
• Print of wagon train moving across the Great Salt Lake Desert – 1859
• Wood engraving depicting construction of the First Transcontinental Telegraph with a Pony Express rider passing by – telegraph lines from West and East met in Salt Lake City in 1861 and made the Pony Express obsolete
• Photograph of Camp Douglas, Utah Territory – built to protect the overland mail route and telegraph lines along the Central Overland Route – 1866
• Illustration showing view of Salt Lake City and portraits of early leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including Brigham Young – 1866
• Copy of political cartoon entitled "Does not SUCH a meeting make amends?" - references the meeting of East and West by way of the Transcontinental Railroad – 1869
• Photograph of the ceremony for driving the golden spike at Promontory Summit, Utah, on May 10, 1869 – completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad
• Photograph of workers cutting granite for the Mormon temple – 1872
• Photograph of Uinta Ute warrior and his bride on horseback in northwest Utah – 1874
• Photograph of Mormon emigrants heading west in a covered wagon caravan – 1879
• Copy of WPA poster featuring Zion National Park – 1938
• Photograph of Navajo Code Talkers – many code talkers came from the Navajo Reservation located in parts of Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico – 1943
• Photograph of Central Utah Relocation Center – WWII camp which housed Americans of Japanese descent and immigrants to the U.S. – 1943
• Photograph of Bingham Canyon Mine – open-pit copper mine operating since 1906 – photo 2003
• Photograph of ancient Native American ruins at Utah’s Hovenweep National Monument – built between 1200 and 1300 C.E. – 2006 photo
• Photograph of Torrey Log Church-Schoolhouse – built in 1898 as both a schoolhouse and a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – 2006 photo
• Photograph of Ute tribal rock art in Arches National Park – carved between 1650 & 1850 C.E. – photo 2009
• Population density map of Utah – 2010
• Photograph of statue commemorating Mormon handcart pioneers – Temple Square, Salt Lake City – 2011 photo

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.