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Engaging Students with Primary Sources in 3rd-5th Grade Social Studies

Discover effective strategies for using primary source documents in your 3rd to 5th-grade social studies classroom. Explore valuable online resources such as Digital History and Gilder Lehrman, and learn how to incorporate interactive notebooks without reinventing the wheel. Engage students through visual vocabulary and collaborative lesson sharing on BallerShare. Our unit outlines cover diverse topics, including the cultures of North America and Washington State history. Equip your lessons with innovative techniques to enhance vocabulary and comprehension.

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Engaging Students with Primary Sources in 3rd-5th Grade Social Studies

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  1. 3rd-5th Grade Using Primary Source Documents in Social Studies

  2. Google, Bing, etc. • Bookmark favorite Websites • http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ • http://www.gilderlehrman.org/ • Beg, borrow, steal • Utilize BallerShare to share sources and lesson plans! Where do I find primary sources?

  3. Problems with Primary Sources • Vocabulary • Vernacular • Venght (length) • Solutions • Model by thinking aloud • Use vocabulary strategies • Use brackets • Shorten (use ellipses…) But it’s too wordy…

  4. Unit Outlines for Third Grade • First Nations of North America • Cultures of North America • Cultures in Our Community • Unit Outlines for Fourth Grade • Overview – Setting in Time and Place • WA- Exploring the Pacific Northwest Prior to Statehood • WA- Living in Washington: Its Geography, Resources, and the Economy • WA- Being Citizens of Washington Are you teaching the standards?

  5. Unit Outlines for Fifth Grade • Overview - Setting in Time and Place • US-Encounter, Colonization, and Devastation (1492 – 1763) • US-Independence (1763 – 1791) • US-Founding the Nation (1776 – 1791) • US-Legacy for Us Today • http://www.k12.wa.us/SocialStudies/EALRs-GLEs.aspx Standards Cont.

  6. Overview for Interactive Notebooks

  7. Don’t reinvent the wheel • http://www.ohiohistoryteachers.org/02/04/#definitions How do I teach the difference?

  8. Secondary Source: http://www.ohiohistoryteachers.org/02/04/#definitions Primary Source: http://www.ibiblio.org/ebooks/Geronimo/GerStory.htm Strategy 1 – Stop & Source

  9. http://lewisandclarktrail.com/legacy/letter.htm Strategy 2 – Open Mind

  10. http://www.ushistory.org/paine/commonsense/singlehtml.htm Strategy 3 – Visual Vocabulary

  11. Q & A and Brainstorming

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