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The Smithsonian site includes teaching lessons, interactives, videos, museum artifacts, and other teacher resources. There is a remarkable amount of material to explore. The site also has an outstanding search function. The search function allows you to look for resources based on resources type (videos, artifacts, reference materials, etc.), grade, historical era, and cross-curricular connections (look for resources that touch on multiple subjects such as economics, science, etc.)
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[https://www.archives.gov/education The United States National Archives]
The National Archives has a ton of resources on US history that focuses on primary source documents. Additionally, the Archives has created syllabi on how to teach students how to analyze primary sources. The Archives also created the [https://www.docsteach.org/ DOCSTeach online tool] for teaching archives from the National Archives.
The Archives has produced material that is primarily intended for middle and high school students. Here is an example of one of their Lesson Plans: [https://www.archives.gov/legislative/resources/education/constitution Teaching Six Big Ideas in Constitution] It creates several day ways to help to teach these documents.
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*[http://www.loc.gov/teachers/ Library of Congress]