We’ve set up a few pages that are aimed at providing your students with some guidance for finding, evaluating and citing sources as well as a page to help students write their On This Day article.

• How to Research an On This Day Article
• How to Evaluate Web Sites for an On This Day Article
• How to Cite a Source for an On This Day Article
• How to Write an On This Day Article

We will also be posting tips on our blog, findingEducation’s The Digital Teachers’ Lounge.

Use these example On This Day articles for additional reference:

• On This Day: President Lincoln Delivers Gettysburg Address
• On This Day: British Troops Burn White House and Capitol
• On This Day: Treaty of Versailles Signed
• On This Day: President Roosevelt Approves Japanese-American Internment

And, for help putting together lessons to teach the different stages of researching and writing an On This Day Article, please see the lesson plan web guides below.

Plagiarism Lesson Plans Web Guide

Please check back! More lesson plan Web guides to come.