7. Primary or secondary?
Old history Copy of email
textbook
Journal
New history Blog
textbook
Digital photo
Band of Brothers
Wikipedia
Photo article
Artifact
World Book
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. • 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
11. • 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
13. Definitions?
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”
14. 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”
15. 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”
18. Examines a variety of primary
sources in World history and
analyzes them in terms of credibility,
purpose, and point of view
19. Uses at least three primary sources
to interpret the impact of a person or
event from Kansas history to develop
an historical narrative
20. Compares contrasting
descriptions of the same event in
United States history to understand
how people differ in their
interpretations of historical events
21. Three stage media analysis
See?
Similarities & Differences?
So what?
72. Primary sources are reliable
Primary sources are naturally
engaging for students
73. Primary sources are reliable
Primary sources are naturally
engaging for students
Evidence can be neatly packaged
74. Primary sources are reliable
Primary sources are naturally
engaging for students
Evidence can be neatly packaged
The more primary sources the better
77. “I learned that to do history, you have to be
objective and be able to look at a puzzle of
historical events and put them together in
order.”
10th grader
79. “When my students read the Whitman letters, I saw a
sheen of tears in their eyes and noted an avid interest
in the soldiers as people, not just historical figures.”
HS teacher
81. “Discovering that two students view a document
differently creates a kind of dissonance that opens up
meaning and creates new understanding in learners.”
MS teacher
83. “The Civil Rights
Movement finally made
sense to me when I
looked at lynching
postcards from the
1900s and some of the
writings of Ida B.
Wells.”
HS student
110. Kids create tour of US import countries
Tours of explorer routes
List of natural resources
Provide placemarks / good area to settle?
City scavenger hunts
126. Objects
• Trace the development of
specific types of
technology or inventions
127. Objects
• Trace the development of
specific types of
technology or inventions
• Predict what the technology
might look like 50 or 100 years
from now
130. Objects
• Use a spreadsheet program to
document deaths and births
based on tombstone data
131. Objects
• Use a spreadsheet program to
document deaths and births
based on tombstone data
• Predict use of unknown
object / research and present
findings
148. Text
• History in a Box
• Read letters to analyze point of
view
149. Document Based Questions
(DBQs)
• Series of short answers or
an essay based on prior
knowledge and a select set of
documents
• Encourages students to think
historically
154. Using the Library of Congress
framework, begin developing
your own primary sources activity
• Start with the end in mind
• Develop an assessment
• Create the activity
156. high levels of
learning
lots of resources &
activities exist
technology is important
157. have more questions?
contact:
Glenn Wiebe
glennw@essdack.org
socialstudiescentral.com
historytech.wordpress.com
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