Thursday, April 8, 2010

Catch of the Day - AwesomeStories - 8 Apr 10

AwesomeStories, a gathering of primary-source information, is today's catch

Launched in 1999, AwesomeStories is a site to help educators and individuals find original sources located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, historical societies, and government web sites.

AwesomeStories Home Page

The purpose of AwesomeStories is to place primary sources, not opinions, at the forefront. Its objective is to take users to places where those primary sources are located.

Awesome Disaster Stories

The stories at AwesomeStories exist as a way to place original primary source materials in context and to tie those links together in an interesting and meaningful way.

Awesome Sports Stories

Joining AwesomeStories is free. Members can access everything on the site and explore all its many features, such as …
  • An extensive image data base
  • Narrated stories
  • Lesson plans and text documents
  • A monthly newsletter profiling current events and hot topics
Front Page of a Story

The author of each AwesomeStory is identified on the front page of the story and linked to more detailed information about the author. Additionally, hundreds of teachers have provided specific input for site improvements and story requests.

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2 comments:

Mrs. Tenkely said...

This is a neat site, it is one that I keep meaning to use with my students and forget about. Thank you for the reminder. I am going to use it with a project that we are working on right now.

Nick Provenzano said...

Excellent collection of sources. As a social studies teacher a few years ago, this would have been a great site to use in class as students did research. Thanks for the share.

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