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Discovering Primary Sources: A Guide to Utilizing and Creating Educational Materials

Join the Make and Take series to explore using primary sources in education. Learn strategies, tools, and resources to enhance student learning and critical thinking. Find relevant sources and create engaging lessons.

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Discovering Primary Sources: A Guide to Utilizing and Creating Educational Materials

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  1. SMSD Social Studies Make and Take Series Utilizing Primary Source Collections and Creating Your Own Deb Brown SMSD 2011

  2. Think of a topic you would like to find Primary Sources for tonight

  3. Objectives • Overview of Deb’s Fave Four +1 • Assist you in searching and finding sources that connect to a unit or objective or to assist students into “Intro to Primary Sources”

  4. Things to Consider • WHAT IS IT THAT I WANT STUDENTS TO LEARN? • HAVE I TAUGHT THEM THE TOOLS OF ANALYSIS? (PATHWAY STRATEGIES) • WHAT FINAL PRODUCT AM I LOOKING FOR? • HAVE I PROVIDED GRADE LEVEL SOURCES THAT REACH ALL LEARNERS?

  5. What is it that I want students to learn? Begin with the end in mind. Create an inquiry question, a document based question (DBQ)

  6. Have I started with the fundamentals?Can they unwrap a PS? Have they been exposed to SMSD Pathway Strategies? • Types of primary sources • Pathway strategies

  7. Types of Primary Sources • Documents (published and unpublished) • This would include diaries, letters, etc. • Photographs • Paintings • Artifacts • Political cartoons • Sound recordings • Advertisements and posters • Video recording

  8. Pathway Strategies • POSERS (photograph and art analysis) • TACOS (political cartoons) • LUKCAS (charts and graphs) • APPARTS or SOAPS (document analysis) • MUSUEMS (artifact analysis) • TOADSKI (map analysis) • We also use SPRITES and SPEC

  9. What is the final outcome – what product or result am I wanting? • Meet district objectives and KS state standards • Simple understanding of primary sources • Promote my students critical thinking • Engage my students in learning • Form reasoned conclusions

  10. Have I provided grade level sources that reach all learners? • Differentiation

  11. Time Tonight No time for extensive overview • SMSD Pathway strategies • In-depth look at searching sites and their nuances Yes time • to explore and “harvest” images and documents that you might use in your classroom.

  12. Deb’s Fave Four +1 • LIBRARY OF CONGRESS • NATIONAL ARCHIVES • KANSAS MEMORY • HISTORY MATTERS • HISTORICAL SCENE INVESTIGATIONS

  13. Think of a topic you would like to find Primary Sources for tonight

  14. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS April announcement of Teaching with Primary Sources Grant award 25 spots Initial application for K-8 teachers and media specialists. 7-8 social studies Priority to first time training or minimal training Elementary teachers Media specialists If spots are available open to high school social studies.

  15. Time commitment • June 6, 7, and 8. Approximately 6 hours. Lunch served. • ½ day August before first contract day • ½ sub release time early September • Create and submit a lesson for Library of Congress • Participate in the September Primary Sources Conference to be held SMSD

  16. TPS Project/grant

  17. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS http://www.loc.gov/teachers/ • Classroom Materials Lesson Plans Can Search by Standard Teaching Guide Primary Sources Sets Themed Lesson

  18. Open extra tab

  19. Collection Highlights at LOC http://www.loc.gov/index.html • American Memory • Prints and Photographs

  20. NATIONAL ARCHIVES • Teaching with Documents • Docs Teach • Digital Vaults • Primarily Teaching workshops • June 20-24

  21. NARA trainingPrimarily Teaching • June 20-24 • Typically pays for lessons submitted • Can receive PD points from SMSD

  22. National Archives Teacher Resources http://www.archives.gov/education/ Teaching with Documents and Lesson by Era http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/

  23. DOCS Teach – Fun to explore and investigate. Good resource http://docsteach.org/

  24. Digital Vaults – Still playing with this but I think you will like it. You may spend the whole time here. http://www.digitalvaults.org/

  25. Resources by state and region http://www.archives.gov/education/regional-resources/#KS Scroll down for NARA Central Plains Region KANSAS CITY

  26. HISTORY MATTERS http://historymatters.gmu.edu/

  27. KANSAS MEMORY http://www.kansasmemory.org/

  28. HISTORICAL SCENE INVESTIGATION http://web.wm.edu/hsi/index.html

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