Title: Connecting with Primary Sources
1Connecting withPrimary Sources
- Teacher Trouble
- Michelle Mazzola
- Jennifer C. Parker
- Dan Sherman
- Connecting the Dots II-South
- July 15, 2009
2Today onLate NiteIndependent Perspectives
Jefferson vs. 7 Indian Nations
- Louisiana Purchase an expanding success!
3In the last 24 hours, what evidence have you left
of your existence?
Besides the recycling refuse...
4Why use Primary Sources?
- Engage Students
- Students relate in a personal way to historical
events and promotes a deeper understanding of
history - Encourages students to seek additional evidence
through research - First-person accounts make historical events more
real - Develop critical thinking skills
- State standards require students to be critical
and analyze what they read - Primary sources require students to use prior
knowledge and find patterns - Students that analyze primary sources move from
concrete observations and fact finding to making
inferences and questioning materials - Construct knowledge
- Primary source inquiry encourages confronting the
complexity of the past - Synthesize information from multiple sources
- Construct content knowledge and a deeper
understanding
5Vietnam Memorial
6How to use Primary Sources
- Engage Students
- Draw on prior knowledge
- Closely observe each primary source
- Help students see key details
- Encourage students to think about their personal
response to the source - Promote student inquiry
- Encourage students to speculate
- Ask if this source agrees with other primary
sources - Assess the application of critical thinking and
analysis skills - Summarize what's been learned
- Ask for reasons and evidence to support
conclusions - Identify questions for further investigation and
develop strategies to answer them
7Digital Connections
8How does it work?www.digitalvaults.orgCreate..
.PostersMoviesPathway ChallengesA series of
clues that reveal the relationship between
photographs, documents and other records
9Classroom Applications
10Additional Primary Sources resources available
through the Library of Congress Primary Source
sets including lesson plans www.loc.gov/teachers O
r The National Archives Including high-resolution
images transcripts www.archives.gov
11Works Cited for the Animoto Video
- What is a Primary Source?
- http//www.knowledgecenter.unr.edu/instruction/he
lp/primary.html - Music
- The Entertainer by Terry Waldo
- Images
- Library of Congress Digital Collections
- Mary Tood Lincoln's seed pearl necklace and
bracelet - http//memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/scsmbi
b_at_field(DOCID_at_lit(scsm001298)) - White House June 1917 by Robert Runyon
- http//runyon.lib.utexas.edu/r/RUN04000/RUN04100/R
UN04169.JPG - Justice and Power by Charles J. Mulligan
- http//lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/I?cdn1./temp
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tnbib,afcesnbib,hurstonbib,mreynoldsbib,spaldingbi
b,sgproto,scsmbib, - In Love with Love program
- http//sdrcdata.lib.uiowa.edu/libsdrc/details.jsp?
id/inlove/2page1 - George Washington signed letter
- http//memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collIdmgw4f
ileNamegwpage037.dbrecNum843 - Calvin Coolidge photograph
12Works Cited for the PowerPoint
- www.digitalvaults.org
- www.archives.gov
- www.monticello.org/jefferson/biography.html
- www.monticello.org/jefferson/lewisandclark/origins
.html - www.monticello.org/jefferson/lewisandclark/prepara
tions.html - www.monticello.org/jefferson/lewisandclark/louisia
na.html - http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_jefferson
- http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Indepe
ndence_(United_States) - http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase
- www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources