PRIMARY SOURCES ARE ELEMENTARY

Cheryl Best5th Grade Teacher

Bunker Hill,IllinoisTeaching with Primary Sources Teacher Network Mentor

best5@madisontelco.com

What is a primary source?

Definitions• Primary sources provide first-hand testimony or direct evidence

concerning a topic under investigation. They are created by witnesses or recorders who experienced the events or conditions being documented.http://www.yale.edu/collections_collaborative/primarysources/primarysources.html

• Primary sources are the raw materials of history — original documents and objects which were created at the time under study. They are different from secondary sources, accounts or interpretations of events created by someone without firsthand experience.www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources

HOW DO YOU USE PRIMARY SOURCES IN THE CLASSROOM?

Goals for Today• Learn strategies to incorporate

primary sources

• Learn ways to locate primary sources from the Library of Congress

Inquiry Skills

•communicating (listening, speaking and writing)

• collaboration

• point of view • analysis of multiple sources

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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long

endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for

those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and

dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long

remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the

unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task

remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full

measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have

Margaret Mead

“Children should be taught how to think.”

Thank you!Please feel free to contact me either on the TPS Teachers Network or at my

email addressTPS Teachers Network- http://tpsteachersnetwork.org/

best5@madisontelco.comcbest@bhschools.org

BibliographyLibrary of Congress- https://www.loc.gov

All Library of Congress Professional Development Webinars- https://loc.gov/teachers/professionaldevelopment/webinar/?loclr=blogtea

TPS Teacher Network- http://tpsteachersnetwork.org/

Teacher Tool Kit http://www.theteachertoolkit.com/

Accountable Talk for Middle & High - Edutopia- edutopia.org/stw-kipp-critical-thinking-resources-downloads

Elementary StandardsSS.IS.1.3-5: Develop essential questions and explain the importance of the questions to self and others. Constructing Supporting Questions SS.IS.2.3-5: Create supporting questions to help answer essential questions in an inquiry. Determining Helpful Sources SS.IS.3.3-5: Determine sources representing multiple points of view that will assist in answering essential questions.

http://www.isbe.net/ils/social_science/pdf/ss-stds-grade5-012716.pdf

Junior High StandardsSS.IS.1.6-8: Create essential questions to help guide inquiry about a topic.

SS.IS.2.6-8: Ask essential and focusing questionsthat will lead to independent research.

SS.IS.3.6-8: Determine sources representing multiple points of view that will assist in organizing a research plan.

http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/social_science/pdf/ss-stds-6-8-012716.pdf

High school standards• SS.IS.1.9-12: Address essential questions that reflect an enduring issue in

the field. • SS.IS.2.9-12: Explain how supporting questions contribute to an inquiry. • SS.IS.3.9-12: Develop new supporting and essential questions through

investigations, collaboration, and using diverse sources. • SS.IS.4.9-12: Gather and evaluate information from multiple sources

while considering the origin, credibility, point of view, • authority, structure, context, and corroborative value of the sources. • SS.IS.5.9-12: Identify evidence that draws information from multiple

sources to revise or strengthen claims. • SS.IS.6.9-12: Construct and evaluate explanations and arguments using

multiple sources and relevant, verified information. • SS.IS.7.9-12: Articulate explanations and arguments to a targeted

audience in diverse settings. • http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/social_science/pdf/ss-

stds-9-12-012716.pdf

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