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Primary Sources in the Social Studies Classroom

Primary Sources in the Social Studies Classroom. Glenn Wiebe ESSDACK glennw@essdack.org. Sticky ideas. Big ideas. Primary sources encourage high levels of learning. Lots of resources & activities exist for teachers to use. Using technology is important as part of instruction.

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Primary Sources in the Social Studies Classroom

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  1. Primary Sources in the Social Studies Classroom Glenn WiebeESSDACK glennw@essdack.org

  2. Sticky ideas

  3. Big ideas Primary sources encourage high levels of learning

  4. Lots of resources & activities exist for teachers to use

  5. Using technology is important as part of instruction

  6. Old history textbooks New history textbooks The Wild Blue Photos Artifact World Book Copy of a forwarded email Diary Live blog on a computer Digital photo on laptop Wikipedia Primary / secondary?

  7. What are the rules? Create a list of criteria

  8. Criteria?

  9. Direct traces of the event Accounts created at the time it occurred, by firsthand observers and participants Accounts created after the event occurred, by firsthand observers and participants

  10. Accounts created after the event occurred, by people who did not participate or witness the event, but who used interviews or evidence from the time of the event

  11. Do you need to change any of your dots?

  12. Definitions? What are primary sources? • Contemporary accounts of an event, created by someone who experienced or witnessed the event in question • “a first-hand account of an event, person, or place” (Kansas State Standards)

  13. What are secondary sources? • Materials that interpret, assign value to, conjecture upon, and draw conclusions about the events reported in primary sources • “An account of an event, person, or place that is not first-hand”(Kansas State Standards)

  14. Tertiary sources? • Materials that list, compile, digest, or index primary and / or secondary sources

  15. Where should you start? socialstudiescentral.com slideshare.net/glennw98

  16. Three stage media analysis • See • Sims & Differences • Why

  17. Three stage media analysis • Boston Massacre

  18. Paul Revere 1770 Alonzo Chappel 1868

  19. Training kids to analyze “What really happened in Boston on March 5, 1770?”

  20. Who 1st / 2nd / 3rd person? 5 W’s and credibility

  21. What format?

  22. Why audience?

  23. Where on-site?

  24. When written / created?

  25. Whatcha thinking?

  26. Great place to start National Archives & Records Administration www.archives.gov/education

  27. Library of Congress www.loc.gov/teachers

  28. Our Documents www.ourdocuments.gov

  29. Social Studies Central www.socialstudiescentral.com “Links”  “Documents”

  30. Browse through lesson plan archives Select a lesson you can adapt How might it look different?

  31. One side write • What you see Other side • What you feel Bottom • What do all pictures havein common?

  32. Masks off!

  33. See

  34. Feel

  35. Have in common

  36. Why don’t we hear much about it? How would you slow down a pandemic in 2007?

  37. Problems / Myths?

  38. Problems? Time in planning Time in class Validity of source Training of teacher and students Reading level of students

  39. Myths? Jigsaw:“Primary Sources in History: Breaking Through the Myths”

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