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Build confidence in delivering primary source-based instruction with easily adaptable, skill-based lessons that can be used in a variety of learning environments. Each lesson offers suggestions for differentiating instruction with diverse audiences, worksheets, and activity templates.What Primary Sources Teach provides practical and transferable lesson plans focused on skill-based instruction, including step-by-step instructions; ideas for differentiation; corresponding teaching tools, such as worksheets and activity templates; and suggestions for assessment. This book includes resources that are intuitive to classroom teachers and easily adoptable by librarians and informal educators tasked with translating their current primary source-based instruction to a K-12 environment.
This book celebrates the role of primary source education and provides a wide range of educators with a shared language for articulating the relevance of teaching with primary sources. The reader will build confidence delivering primary source-based instruction as they work their way through the lesson plans, tools, and resources offered in this book. Eventually, they will feel comfortable designing lesson plans of their own for primary source-based instruction.
Table des matières
Foreword by Natiba Guy-Clement
Introduction
1-Differentiation
2-Choosing Sources: Teaching with Your Collections
3-Reading the Lessons in This Book
4-Document Analysis
5-Analyzing Historic Maps
6-Analyzing Political Cartoons
7-Understanding Bias in Historic Sources
8-Note Taking
9-Guiding and Essential Questions
10-Developing a Research Question
11-Claims and Counterclaims
12-Crafting a Thesis Statement
13-Avoiding Plagiarism: Paraphrasing
14-Citing Sources
15-Finding and Assessing Sources Online
Index
Standards Index
A propos de l'auteur
Jen Hoyer is electronic resources and technical services librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology, USA.Kaitlin H. Holt (she/her) is Associate Director, Center for Educators and Schools, New York Public Library, USA. Her experience in the cultural sector spans nearly 20 years, with an emphasis on education, interpretation, and public programs. Holt has facilitated more than one hundred educator professional development workshops, presented at dozens of conferences, and co-authored numerous articles and one book (What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom, Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited, 2022) on best practices for infusing informal education into K–12 settings.Julia Pelaez is an educator at the Brooklyn Public Library's Center for Brooklyn History, USA.
