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The strong push to use primary sources in teaching history and social studies creates a need among teachers for more information on what they are and how they can be used effectively in the classroom. Vital Witnesses meets this need by providing teachers with a comprehensive guide to primary sources and their use in the classroom.
List of contents
Preface
Introduction: What Are Primary Sources?
Part One: Understanding Primary Sources
The world of primary sources
Print documents
Visual documents
Maps
Photographs
Editorial Cartoons
Film/video
Fine Arts
Folk Culture and Mythology.
The Built Environment
Material culture
Natural Environment
Part Two: Primary Sources in the Classroom
The Big Picture Inquiry-Based Learning Method
Classroom Exercises
Exploring the nature of primary sources
Using primary source texts to open a unit of study
Constructing Document-Based Questions
Using Visuals to Meet the Needs of All Learners
Designing a Curriculum for All Learners
Part Three: Accommodating Common Core
Accommodating Common Core Literacy Standards
Accommodating the C3 Framework for State Social Studies Standards
Bibliography
About the author
Mark Newman has been shortlisted for the Costa Short Story Award, highly commended in the New Writer Prose & Poetry Awards and Bristol Prize longlisted. His work has won competitions judged by Alison Moore, Tania Hershman and David Gaffney. He has been published in Firewords Quarterly, Fiction Desk, and Paper Swans. He has eight stories in the Retreat West competition anthology Inside These Tangles, Beauty Lies.
Summary
The strong push to use primary sources in teaching history and social studies creates a need among teachers for more information on what they are and how they can be used effectively in the classroom. Vital Witnesses meets this need by providing teachers with a comprehensive guide to primary sources and their use in the classroom.
