First Hand Using Primary Sources in the Classroom Aubry Amerson
Why? Why should I use primary sources in the classroom? 1. Develop and Refine Skills 2. Address Various Learning Styles 3. Appeal to Students 4. Make Learning Active 5. Provide Different Perspectives
1. Developing Skills Literacy Investigative Skills Deductive Reasoning Identify Main Ideas Comparing and Contrasting Summarization Classifying Cause and Effect Identifying Patterns
2. Addressing Various Learning Styles Auditory: oral histories speeches news clips Visual: photographs objects
3. Appealing to Students Tangible “Real” things Experience it themselves Draw their own conclusions
4. Making Learning Active breaking down primary sources analyzing drawing their own conclusions directing their learning
5. Providing Different Perspectives allows for multiple mediums to be used opportunity to see perspectives from both sides of an event opportunity to see perspectives from both sides of a belief
What? What primary sources can I use? letters newspaper articles government records treaties speech transcriptions laws maps photographs video recordings audio recordings survey reports maps journals/diaries calendars Advertisements Music Political cartoons etc...
How? How do I implement the use of primary sources in my classroom? Gallery Walks Guided Questions Small Group Whole Class Graphic Organizers Summaries of Key Points, main ideas, etc Debriefing
How? How do I implement the use of primary sources in my classroom? Time Machine Spectrum of Sources Interview with a Primary Source Speed Dating Primary Sources
Tsongas Industrial History Center video of a lecture by Dr. Marshall explaining interesting ways to use primary sources in the classroom.
Resources Library of CongressLibrary of Congress OyezOyez National ArchivesNational Archives (DocsTeach)EDsitement(DocsTeach)EDsitement Living Room CandidateSmithsonian Education Gallup The Gilder Lehrman Institute American RhetoricAmerican Rhetoric MANY MORE! The Avalon Project Life Magazine Photo Archive