Teacher Resources

• Connecticut for Kids

• Connecticut Project Helper

• ConnecticutHistory.org

• Connecticut Historical Society

• Connecticut Historical Facts

• Visit Connecticut

• Museum of Connecticut History

• Library of Congress: America's Library

• Connecticut's Kid Governor 

• Where I Live: Connecticut (Chapter 4)

• History of West Hartford Noah Webster House and West Hartford Historical Society 

• West Hartford History Online

• History Pin- West Hartford Places

• ConnecticutHistory.org: West Hartford Page

• Town of West Hartford Website

• West Hartford - GIS Maps 

• Researchitct.org

•  WebPath Express- available through Destiny in your school library

• Britannica School (ask your librarian for a username and password)

• KidzSearch

• Kid's Search Engine

• Fact Monster from Information Please

• Library of Congress: America's Library

• Academic Kids

Teaching with Primary Sources

• • National Archives-Primary Sources for Classroom Use: DocsTeach

  • Library of Congress

  • Using Primary Sources - Teachers | Teacher Resources - Library of Congress 

  • Browse Using Primary Sources | Teachinghistory.org 

  • Teaching with Documents

  • Reading a Visual Document: Guiding Questions

  • Artifact Analysis Guides

  • Why use primary sources?

Connecticut State Department of Education: Social Studies

How to Create Document Based Questions-17 Document Based and Constructed Response Questions For Elementary Students (DBQ)

Teaching History- Elementary Resources

• • Teaching Local History

historypin.org

National Council for the Social Studies- Resource Page