Library of Congress

Teaching with Primary Sources 2015

Make a Connection

Find a picture that you seem to “connect” with on a personal or professional basis. Be prepared to share with group.

Welcome

• IntroductionsIndex Card with Name and Email

• Overview of Project• Expectations

– Agenda– Norms– Online certificates of completion

• CSPAN – LOC Video• Participant Files:

http://primarysources.ncceconnect.org/

Essential Questions

• How can primary sources motivate and engage learners?

• In what ways do primary sources support inquiry?

• To what extent can the Library of Congress support teaching and learning?

• How do primary sources and the Library of Congress support Common Core?

Analyzing Political Cartoons

Branch Rickey

• www.loc.gov/item/myloc2

LOC Collections

Teacher Resources: A Guided Tour

Common Core Standards

Reading Standard: Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.

Speaking and Listening: Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study.

Common Core Standards

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.

Found Poetry Activity

Using Word Clouds to Analyze Primary Sources

Comparing Historical Documents

Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Speech

Using Word Clouds to Analyze Primary Sources

Comparing the Past to the Present

Lincoln’s 1st Inaugural Speech 1861

Primary Source Sets

• Review• Exploration Activities

• Create documentary using Movie Maker, iMovie, Animoto– www.animoto.com

• Make own analysis activity for classroom

• Make a magazine cover/trading cards using BigHugeLabs– http://bighugelabs.com/

What 2 or 3 inquiry questions might the Exploration Activity elicit for students? Post on sticky notes. Share in small groups.

Trading Card

www.bighugelabs.com

Magazine Cover

What’s My Theme?

Book Trailer

War Time Music

Lesson Plans

• Guidelines• Format

Work Time

Task: Find something in the library that you could use in your educational setting. What questions would you use as prompts? How could you extend the activity? How might you assess student learning?

Thinking Like A Historian

• https://sheg.stanford.edu/

Sharing

Reflection

How can analysis activities promote inquiry with your students?

Homework

Read “Thinking Like an Historian” by Sam Wineburg

What is historical thinking?Why is it important to do?What is one question you would like to ask Dr. Wineburg?How could you see yourself using these activities in your classroom?

Exit Slip

• Highlight• Question• Suggestion

Day 2

Thinking Historically

“In history courses I took in school we read about history, talked about history, and wrote about history; we never actually did history. If I had learned basketball in this way, I would have spent years reading interpretations and viewpoints of great players, watching them play games, and analyzing the results of various techniques and strategies.”

Levesque, Stephane. 2008. Thinking Historically: Educating Students for the Twenty- First Century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Thinking Like a Historian

• What is historical thinking?• Why is it important to do?• What is one question you would like to ask Dr.

Wineburg?• How could you see yourself using these activities

in your classroom?

Infographics

Kathy Schrock’s Introduction to Infographics

Infographics as an Assessment

• Analyzing the Constitution

Infographics as an Assessment

Checks and Balances

Primary Source Activity

Exploring Strategies inPractice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWz08mVUIt8

• Sourcing• Contextualization• Close Reading• Corroboration

Strategies into Practice

• Debrief Taft Activity and Video• What strategies did you use during your

investigation?• How could a similar lesson be incorporated into

your own classroom setting?• How would you define INQUIRY? • What makes an effective inquiry question?

Inquiry Uncovered

Definition: Inquiry can be defined as "a quest for truth, information, or knowledge -- seeking information by questioning.“ (http://www.thefreedictionary.com)

Useful application of inquiry learning involves several factors: a context for questions, a framework for questions, a focus for questions, and different levels of questions.

Inquiry

• Discussion: How can analysis activities promote inquiry?

• Inquiry question(s)– Does the question represent an important issue?– Is it debatable?– Does the question represent a reasonable amount of

content?– Will it hold student interest?– Is the question challenging?– What concepts will be emphasized?

Inquiry

Question Types Answers on Bloom’s Taxonomy

Do?

Is?

Remembering

Who?

What?

Where?

When?

Understanding

Why?

How?

Applying

Analyzing

Should?

Would?

Evaluating

Creating

Historical Questions

Casual: What caused x?

Why did Texans declare independence from Mexico in 1836?

Why was Patrice Lumumba assassinated?

Explanatory: What happened at x?

What happened at the Battle of Lexington?

Evaluative: Was x a success?

Were African Americans free during Reconstruction?

Was appeasement the right policy for England in 1939?

Descriptive: What was it like to live in a particular place?

How did Chinese peasants experience the “Great Leap Forward”?

Inquiry Example

Westward Expansion samples:•Why do people move? Why did the pio neers leave their homes to head west?•How do geography and topography affect travel and settlement? •Why did some pioneers survive and prosper while others did not? •What is a pioneer? What is “pioneer spirit”? •What was pioneer life really like?

Assessment Ideas

How do we assess understanding?

Work Time

Task: Continue developing a lesson you could use that incorporates the use of primary sources. Use the lesson plan format to guide your work. The lesson form and guidelines can be found in your participant files.

Share, Revise, Email

• In grade level groups share lessons.– Provide constructive feedback– Presenter can provide focus for feedback (help with

essential questions, assessment ideas, prior knowledge needed, etc)

• Revise lesson based on feedback• Save lesson as last name hyphen descriptive title

– Example: Dorr-Dust Bowl• Email to instructor

Exploring American Treasures

• http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tr66.html• Facilitated overview• Exploration• Task: Using the artifacts from one Gallery

answer the questions on the Exhibitions Questions handout (included in participant files). Be prepared to share your answers with a partner.

American Treasures Discussion

• How did these questions help you make personal connections to the past?

• How did choice engage you as a learner?

• How did different perspectives and experiences play a role in the activity?

Conclusion

• Reflection: What is one goal you have after taking this workshop?

• Next Steps: Now what?

• Workshop Evaluation http://primarysources.ncceconnect.org/