World Geography HI

Task

Today your task is to gather sources for your World Geography historical investigation.  The source requirements are . . .

• 5-7 sources total

• 1 must be a primary source

• 1 must be a secondary source from an expert historian

• there should be a variety of sources, i.e. books, magazine and newspaper articles, videos, interviews, photographs, speeches, etc.

• Sources not permitted: textbooks, Wikipedia, encyclopedias, blogs, biographies, authorless articles.

• All sources must be compiled in a bibliography. Use the citation generator in the database or the easybib add in Google docs.

Primary Sources

Docs Teach

Spartacus Educational

The Avalon Project  Documents in Laws, History and Diplomacy

Life Magazine Photo Archive  powered by Google

Library of Congress

New York Public Library Digital Collection

Making Sense of Evidence a great resource on how to read primary sources

Secondary Sources

EGUSD students now have access to our subscribed database, EBSCO, as well as several more databases provided by the State of California.  To access these databases, go to your Classlink portal and click on Library Resources. (see icon below)