I’ve been invited by a database company to write an essay for teachers on how to incorporate primary sources into their instruction.  The essay will be part of a new database full of primary source material, with an emphasis on primary source texts, and the target age group is middle and high schoolers.

Some of the ideas that have been batted about are these:

• How can we incorporate primary documents into classroom teaching (not just when we’re “doing research”)?
• How do we teach students to use primary sources?
• How might you handle an assignment/lecture/project differently if you were incorporating primary sources instead of/in addition to the textbook?
• How can teachers make the most of a primary source database?

I want this essay to be useful to teachers (and to librarians who will “sell” this database to teachers), so I’m looking for your help.   

What do you think your secondary teachers need to know? What are the core messages?

Thanks in advance!

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