What Primary Sources Teach
Lessons for Every Classroom
- 182 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
Build confidence in delivering primary sourceâbased instruction with easily adaptable, skill-based lessons that can be used in a variety of learning environments. Each lesson offers suggestions for differentiating instruction with diverse audiences, worksheets, and activity templates. What Primary Sources Teach provides practical and transferable lesson plans focused on skill-based instruction, including step-by-step instructions; ideas for differentiation; corresponding teaching tools, such as worksheets and activity templates; and suggestions for assessment. This book includes resources that are intuitive to classroom teachers and easily adoptable by librarians and informal educators tasked with translating their current primary source-based instruction to a Kâ12 environment. This book celebrates the role of primary source education and provides a wide range of educators with a shared language for articulating the relevance of teaching with primary sources. The reader will build confidence delivering primary source-based instruction as they work their way through the lesson plans, tools, and resources offered in this book. Eventually, they will feel comfortable designing lesson plans of their own for primary sourceâbased instruction.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword by Natiba Guy-Clement
- Introduction
- 1âDifferentiation
- 2âChoosing Sources: Teaching with Your Collections
- 3âReading the Lessons in This Book
- 4âDocument Analysis
- 5âAnalyzing Historic Maps
- 6âAnalyzing Political Cartoons
- 7âUnderstanding Bias in Historic Sources
- 8âNote Taking
- 9âGuiding and Essential Questions
- 10âDeveloping a Research Question
- 11âClaims and Counterclaims
- 12âCrafting a Thesis Statement
- 13âAvoiding Plagiarism: Paraphrasing
- 14âCiting Sources
- 15âFinding and Assessing Sources Online
- Index
- Standards Index