1. Using Digital Primary Sources for Teaching K-12 Anne Diekema, Sheri Haderlie, Heather Leary, Cheryl Walters Utah State University UEA Conference, Oct. 1, 2009

2. Outline 1.What is TPS? 2.Some cool lessons created by teachers 3.Sources for digital primary sources: American Memory, Mountain West Digital Library and other 4.Tools: ARS, IA, Fishbone 5.The Workshop 6.The Teachers speak!

3. 1.What is TPS? TPS=Teaching with Primary Sources Primary Sources Examples: photographs, diaries, video, audio Can be used for more than history Why are they important?

4. Building blocks for great school & research projects

5. 2. Some cool projects created by teachers Primary sources used to engage students & stimulate thinking

6. Utah animals After completing research on an animal classification and a specific Utah animal in that classification the students will create & show a power-point presentation focusing on one Utah animal. Main Curriculum Tie: Science - 4th Grade Standard 5 Objective 4 Observe and record the behavior of Utah animals. Standard 5 Objective 4

7. Political cartoons – signs of the times Thinking like a cartoonist Examining the cartoons

8. Civil War – A Look at Culture Understanding the Culture Daily living Art Music Dwellings Food Clothes

9. 3. Sources for digital primary sources American Memory, Mountain West Digital Library and others

13. Browse American Memory Collections Name of collection Topic Time period Format Place The Learning Page

19. Search American Memory American Memory Search Individual Collection Search Media Type Search –Documents, Manuscripts, Printed Texts, Sheet Music Maps, Motion Pictures, Photos & Prints, Sound Recordings

22. primary sources! Treasures from our libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, municipalities in Utah, Nevada & Idaho. http://mwdl.org Booth 617 @ UEA! http://digitalnewpapers.org

23. Voices, pictures, texts from the past…

24. Places

25. People Ebenezer Bryce, the farmer who discovered Bryce Canyon Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist, meteorologist, traveler Abraham Jones at his farm in southwest Provo with horses Mert & Marg

26. Products & Services

27. Events Disasters Celebrations Fun & high jinks Events News

28. The famous… and the not so famous… J. M Wimber family of Castle Dale, Utah President William Howard Taft standing in car, September 24, 1909 Learning about other people, in other times

29. Over 50 historical Utah newspapers

30. Tools Instructional Architect (IA) –http://ia.usu.edu/http://ia.usu.edu/ –Online resource for finding, using, and sharing learning resources to create engaging and interactive educational web pages. Annotated Resources Set (ARS) –http://digital.lib.usu.edu/includes/pdfword/ ARS_template.dochttp://digital.lib.usu.edu/includes/pdfword/ ARS_template.doc –Simple Word-based file for collecting, annotating, and storing information about online resources.

31. Tools Xmind (Fishbone chart) –http://www.xmind.net/http://www.xmind.net/ –Free online resource for creating conceptual maps. Great vehicle for organizing TPS sources.

32. The Instructional Architect Online Projects can be public or private Easy way to build educational web pages Search National Science Digital Library or for other IA projects Add your own online resources Great for individual and group work Examples: http://ia.usu.edu/publicprojects.php?bro wseby=showcase http://ia.usu.edu/publicprojects.php?bro wseby=showcase

36. The Annotated Resource Set Word-based document Easy way to build sets of online educational content Easy to use Sets up a lesson plan Examples: http://www.mscd.edu/tps/resources/ primarysourcesets.shtml http://www.mscd.edu/tps/resources/ primarysourcesets.shtml

40. Fishbone Charts

41. What is a fishbone chart? Cause & Effect diagram, Ishikawa diagram, fishbone pattern Items organized on bones or branches Useful for organizing things by time or topic Allows various media to be inserted or hyperlinked Good visual to present topic and related primary sources

42. Where to start? Download free mapping software from http://www.xmind.net http://www.xmind.net

43. Creating topics and sub-topics Press “tab” or “enter” key to create sub topics

44. Adding primary sources Establish organization of your lesson Create topics and subtopics Find online primary sources –Sound files –Letters –Images –Etc. Save them to your hard drive OR Add hyperlinks to your chart

45. Adding files Use hyperlink feature to link directly to.pdf or.mp3 files that you saved to your hard drive

46. After some more editing

47. 5. THE TPS WORKSHOP What we did during our TPS workshop

48. TPS Workshop in Logan June 10 –12 K-12 teachers and SLM specialists Cache, Jordan, Logan, Ogden, Weber Demonstration, instruction Museum and special collection visits to handle and look at primary sources up close

49. "I loved going to Special Collections -- that really lit a fire under me; it really helped make the connection between original and digital primary sources."

50. 6. The teachers speak! Teachers who participated in the workshop share their experiences.

51. Media Credits Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President. Seated portrait, facing front, January 8, 1864/ Brady, Washington, D.C. ( Collection: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division) The Railroad Cricket / Woody Guthrie (Collection: Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song: Correspondence, 1940-1950) Automobile Parade / Thomas A. Edison, Inc. (Collection: The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906) Swing along! / words and music by Will Marion Cook. (Collection: African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920) "In the Clutches of the Chinese Tiger": From The Wasp: v. 15, July - Dec. 1885 (Collection: The Chinese in California 1850-1925) "Chinese in America": From Harper's Weekly: Harper's Weekly, Vol. 21 (Collection: The Chinese in California 1850-1925) Education of Colored Children (Collection: From Slavery to Freedom: The African- American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909) Birds eye view of Ogden City, Utah, Ty. 1875. Strobridge & Co. Lith. (Collection: Map Collections) Old Memories (vocal) (Collection: Band Music from the Civil War Era) Bugs, Bugs, Bugs (IA project: http://ia.usu.edu/viewproject.php?project=ia:7389) http://ia.usu.edu/viewproject.php?project=ia:7389 Solar System Project (IA Project: http://ia.usu.edu/viewproject.php?project=ia:01745) http://ia.usu.edu/viewproject.php?project=ia:01745 Political and Social Changes in US before the Civil War by Tara Osborn (Utah Annotated Resource Set, http://www.mscd.edu/tpsmountainplains/region/utah.shtml) http://www.mscd.edu/tpsmountainplains/region/utah.shtml