Activities: Create. Getting Kids Engaged with Primary Sources. I vividly remember being disappointed during my first year of teaching: my students weren’t nearly as excited about primary source documents as I was.
Primary source documents, as you know, offer readers a unique, real-world perspective, and I thought my kids would love delving into them. I soon learned that my disappointing results weren’t due to the documents that I’d selected, but rather how I was having students use them. That first year, they weren’t doing anything but reading them. Today, Web-based tools enable students to discover more primary sources than ever before and engage them in dynamic ways. The following items are some of my favorites. The U.S. A related resource, National Archives Docs Teach offers seven free tools that educators can use to create interactive learning activities based on any primary source in the National Archives.
The World Digital Library is a database of more than 7,000 primary source documents and images from around the world. Activities. New Course - Google Drive and the Common Core and more. New Course - Google Drive and the Common Core Over the last few months I have had the good fortune to introduce many educators to using Google Drive to help their students meet Common Core Standards in English Language Arts.
All of those introductions have come in the form of in-person workshops. After many requests for this and after much planning I am now offering Google Drive and the Common Core as a three hour webinar series. While the webinar series is not free it is significantly less than cost of flying me to your school for the day. Course Highlights Creating and sharing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets. This course is designed for educators who: *Are new to using Google Drive/ Documents. Course Schedule Google Drive and the Common Core is a three hour webinar series. Cost The cost to register for either the December or January course is $87 USD per student. Google Drive and Common Core Flyer Manifest Destiny in 141 Interactive Maps More Recent Articles. Manifest Destiny - The Story of The US Told In 141 Maps.
The United States Constitution came into effect, forming the new nation.
Note that the states ratified at different times, but to simplify the map, the final result is shown here. The United States achieved independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain with the Treaty of Paris on September 3, 1783, which established that the thirteen colonies were sovereign and independent states. The borders were established by Article 2 of the treaty, but with a couple of issues. First, it stated that the border would run west from the Lake of the Woods to the Mississippi River - at the time, it was not known that the headwaters of the Mississippi lay south of such a line, so the border has since been taken to run south from the lake to the river.
West Florida claimed a border further north than what the United States said it had. The Wedge, disputed since the 17th century, remained a point of contention between Delaware and Pennsylvania. HSI: Historical Scene Investigation. Primary Source Nexus. Lab Day! « Lisa’s. Over the last few years of developing a technique I’m happy with in discussion forums (see Discussion Goodness from 2009), I’ve also been experimenting with something similar in the classroom at San Elijo.
I’ve done it for three semesters now, and I’m happy with it too. The idea is that every two weeks, we have “Lab Day”. On that day, everyone who has a laptop has to bring one (a smartphone is OK, just not as good for searching images), and Media Services brings me a batch of old clunker PCs without batteries for everyone else. There are cords all over the floor, and students arranged in small groups.
The task, during our 75 minute class, is to create a collection of three primary sources related to that week’s era, then develop athesis and present it to the class with the evidence. Students search the web for primary sources related to, say, the French Revolution. Teacher's Guides and Analysis Tool - For Teachers. Analyzing_Motion_Pictures.pdf (application/pdf Object) Analyzing_Primary_Sources.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Analyzing_Manuscripts.pdf (application/pdf Object) Primary_Source_Analysis_Tool.pdf (application/pdf Object)