Primary Source Teaching Resources

Primary Source activities accompany over 200 BrainPOP topics, challenging students to examine, analyze, and interpret photographs, videos, diaries, speeches, and other first-hand artifacts and accounts. 

 

 

Reasons to Use Primary Sources

Examine, Analyze, and Interpret Primary Sources on BrainPOP
Curriculum Connection
A typewritten, first draft story by Mark Twain; an up close image of a planetary nebula; an audio recording of a 1961 speech John F. Kennedy...
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Common Core State Standards and Primary Source Activity
BrainPOP Primary Source activities, which invite students to experience history, science, math, and more first hand while sharpening their l...
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