World Digital Library

World Digital Library brings museums from around the world into your classroom.  WDL is a multilingual collection of manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other culturnal treasures.  Use this site to "discover, study, and enjoy cultural treasures from around the world on one site, in a variety of ways."

For the Classroom:
Why use Primary Sources in the Classroom?

• Newspaper Reporter~Have students answer the 5 "W" questions about the primary source, and then use the answers to write a headline and lead paragraph for a newspaper article.
  Type the newspaper article in at http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/newspaper-clipping-generator/
• What is it?~Students make a hypothesis about an item from the WDL and then conduct further research to support or refute their educated guess.
• Show and Tell~Students research an item from the WDL and prepare a presentation for their classmates.
• Writing Analysis~Students decipher the writing of an original document then compare their work to a printed copy of the original. 

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