Teaching withPrimary Sources- Mississippi: Module 1
Overview
of website:
1.
Go
to the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources website. http://www.loc.gov/teachers/
b.
Self-pacedonline modules for teachers – 6 to help you learn how to use the LOC and primary
sources in your classroom.
o
Let’s
watch one: Introduction to the Library of Congress (7 minutes)
o
What
did you learn?
c.
Using
primary sources
1.
What
is a primary source?
a.
MindWalk
Activity
b.
List
three things that might be primary sources? Why?
c.
List
three things that might be secondary sources? Why?
2.
What
are the benefits of using primary sources?
2.
Let’s
analyze a source.
a.
Under
classroom materials choose 5th grade Mississippi Social Studies
b.
Select
5.3.c.
INDICATOR Critique the development and impact of slavery in North America,
including the causes, conditions, and effects on enslaved Africans in North
America. (DOK 3)
You’ll
see 9 different classroom materials: Lesson plans, collection connections, and
presentations
Find the document “Slavery is
dead?”
Use the Library of CongressAnalyzing Primary Sources tool to analyze this source.
c.
Think-pair-share.
a.
What
did you choose?
b.
Why
did you choose it?
c.
What
instructional benefits of using primary sources will your students receive from
this activity?
d.
How
would you use it?
4.
Using
a set of primary sources.
a.
Analyzing
a set of primary sources related to a specific event, theme, person, etc can
provide students with a great opportunity to see history from a variety of
perspectives and allow them to “create” their own historical accounts.
b.
I
have provided a set of primary sources from the Library of Congress related to
the assassination of President Lincoln.
c.
In
groups of four work together to do a quick analysis of the sources.
d.
Using
the sources, write a short description of what happened.
e.
What
information do you need/ want to know more about to get a more complete picture
of the assassination of President Lincoln?
f.
How
might you use these primary sources to teach your students about Abraham
Lincoln’s assassination?
i.
Objectives?
ii.
Strategies?
iii.
Products?
iv.
Assessment?
g.
Bonus:
Can you find these sources on the TPS website? http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/finding.html
There are multiple
ways to find primary sources including by curriculum and grade, topic, and
themes.
I browsed by topic-
American History- Civil War and Reconstruction- Abraham Lincoln Papers-Gallery
5.
Conclusion.
a.
This
is just an introduction to the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary
Sources program. To really use it, you must get on the website, explore, think
about your instructional goals, and find sources to support student learning.
b.
Next
steps:
i.
Incorporate
primary sources in a lesson plan next week!
ii.
Start
building a lesson plan based on primary sources.
iii.
Complete
the self-paced online modules for teachers on the Teaching with Primary Sources
site.
iv.
Share
what you know with others.
v.
Let
us know how you are using primary sources in the classroom.
Level I–Participants gain strategies for using primary
sources to help students engage in learning, develop critical thinking skills
and build content knowledge. Module 1 addresses the following Level I goals:
·
Justify conclusions about whether a source is primary or
secondary depending upon the time or topic under study.
·
Describe examples of the benefits of teaching with
primary sources.
- Analyze a primary source using Library of Congress tools
- Access teaching tools and primary sources from loc.gov/teachers
- Identify key considerations for selecting primary sources for
instructional use (for example, student needs and interests, teaching
goals, etc.)
- Access primary sources and teaching resources from loc.gov for
instructional use
·
Analyze a set of related primary sources in order to
identify multiple perspectives
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