Connecting with Primary Sources

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Connecting withPrimary Sources

• Teacher Trouble
• Michelle Mazzola
• Jennifer C. Parker
• Dan Sherman
• Connecting the Dots II-South
• July 15, 2009

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Today onLate NiteIndependent Perspectives
Jefferson vs. 7 Indian Nations

• Louisiana Purchase an expanding success!

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In the last 24 hours, what evidence have you left
of your existence?
Besides the recycling refuse...
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Why use Primary Sources?

• Engage Students
• Students relate in a personal way to historical
  events and promotes a deeper understanding of
  history
• Encourages students to seek additional evidence
  through research
• First-person accounts make historical events more
  real
• Develop critical thinking skills
• State standards require students to be critical
  and analyze what they read
• Primary sources require students to use prior
  knowledge and find patterns
• Students that analyze primary sources move from
  concrete observations and fact finding to making
  inferences and questioning materials
• Construct knowledge
• Primary source inquiry encourages confronting the
  complexity of the past
• Synthesize information from multiple sources
• Construct content knowledge and a deeper
  understanding

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Vietnam Memorial
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How to use Primary Sources

• Engage Students
• Draw on prior knowledge
• Closely observe each primary source
• Help students see key details
• Encourage students to think about their personal
  response to the source
• Promote student inquiry
• Encourage students to speculate
• Ask if this source agrees with other primary
  sources
• Assess the application of critical thinking and
  analysis skills
• Summarize what's been learned
• Ask for reasons and evidence to support
  conclusions
• Identify questions for further investigation and
  develop strategies to answer them

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Digital Connections
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How does it work?www.digitalvaults.orgCreate..
.PostersMoviesPathway ChallengesA series of
clues that reveal the relationship between
photographs, documents and other records
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Classroom Applications
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Additional Primary Sources resources available
through the Library of Congress Primary Source
sets including lesson plans www.loc.gov/teachers O
r The National Archives Including high-resolution
images transcripts www.archives.gov
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Works Cited for the Animoto Video

• What is a Primary Source?
• http//www.knowledgecenter.unr.edu/instruction/he
  lp/primary.html
• Music
• The Entertainer by Terry Waldo
• Images
• Library of Congress Digital Collections
• Mary Tood Lincoln's seed pearl necklace and
  bracelet
• http//memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/scsmbi
  b_at_field(DOCID_at_lit(scsm001298))
• White House June 1917 by Robert Runyon
• http//runyon.lib.utexas.edu/r/RUN04000/RUN04100/R
  UN04169.JPG
• Justice and Power by Charles J. Mulligan
• http//lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/I?cdn1./temp
  /ammem_jyO8displayType1m856sdichicdnm856sf
  n005764_at__at__at_mdbmcc,gottscho,detr,nfor,wpa,aap,cwar
  ,bbpix,cowellbib,calbkbib,consrvbib,bdsbib,dag,fsa
  all,gmd,pan,vv,presp,varstg,suffrg,nawbib,horyd,wt
  c,toddbib,mgw,ncr,ngp,musdibib,hlaw,papr,lhbumbib,
  rbpebib,lbcoll,alad,hh,aaodyssey,magbell,bbcards,d
  cm,raelbib,runyon,dukesm,lomaxbib,mtj,gottlieb,aep
  ,qlt,coolbib,fpnas,aasm,denn,relpet,amss,aaeo,mff,
  afc911bib,mjm,mnwp,rbcmillerbib,molden,ww2map,mfdi
  pbib,afcnyebib,klpmap,hawp,omhbib,rbaapcbib,mal,nc
  psbib,ncpm,lhbprbib,ftvbib,afcreed,aipn,cwband,flw
  pabib,wpapos,cmns,psbib,pin,coplandbib,cola,tccc,c
  urt,mharendt,lhbcbbib,eaa,haybib,mesnbib,fine,cwny
  hs,svybib,mmorse,afcwwgbib,mymhiwebib,uncall,afcwi
  p,mtaft,manz,llstbib,fawbib,berl,fmuever,cdn,upbov
  erbib,mussm,cic,afcpearl,awh,awhbib,sgp,wright,lhb
  tnbib,afcesnbib,hurstonbib,mreynoldsbib,spaldingbi
  b,sgproto,scsmbib,
• In Love with Love program
• http//sdrcdata.lib.uiowa.edu/libsdrc/details.jsp?
  id/inlove/2page1
• George Washington signed letter
• http//memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collIdmgw4f
  ileNamegwpage037.dbrecNum843
• Calvin Coolidge photograph

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Works Cited for the PowerPoint

• www.digitalvaults.org
• www.archives.gov
• www.monticello.org/jefferson/biography.html
• www.monticello.org/jefferson/lewisandclark/origins
  .html
• www.monticello.org/jefferson/lewisandclark/prepara
  tions.html
• www.monticello.org/jefferson/lewisandclark/louisia
  na.html
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_jefferson
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Indepe
  ndence_(United_States)
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase
• www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources