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.
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What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom presents a robust introduction to the inclusive, collaborative Brooklyn Connections program. Through the course of the book, readers learn tools for teaching with archival sources, receive lessons that can be brought directly into classroom use, and consider larger ideas from both the archival and education fields. This is a resource valuable to classroom teacher and archival professional, both separately and in instances where the two overlap or sometimes merge. * The American Archivist * A comprehensive and modernized look at teaching research skills and utilizing archival resources for librarians, teachers, and educators. From analyzing historical maps and documents to developing a research question, this text helps facilitate the research process with all the necessary tools to prepare young people to be successful. * Rachel Chapman, MSLIS, NYCDOE School Librarian * Whether you are a novice educator or you consider yourself an old pro, there's always room to grow when it comes to teaching with primary sources. Honed through years of classroom experience, the authors offer pedagogically sound inspiration for the learner in every archivist and librarian. * Jenny Swadosh, Archivist/The New School * The authors accentuate the power of using primary sources with diverse learners via engaging, thoughtful and accessible lessons in their book What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom. Watch as they make research and critical thinking skills blossom in the classroom!! * Ina Pannell-SaintSurin, Special Education Teacher, NYC Department of Education * This book builds upon the experience at the Brooklyn Connections and invites students and educators into a world where they can learn how to preserve and share their experiences via archiving. This book is an educator's guide to empowering students in a changing digital landscape required in any field of study. * Georgette Clarke, Brooklyn Connections Partner Teacher *
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Verlagsgruppe
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Für Grundschule und weiterführende Schule
Maße
Höhe: 254 mm
Breite: 178 mm
Dicke: 11 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-4408-7855-8 (9781440878558)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Jen Hoyer is Electronic Resources and Technical Services Librarian at CUNY New York City College of Technology, USA.
Kaitlin H. Holt (she/her) is the Associate Director, Center for Educators and Schools at the New York Public Library, USA.
Julia Pelaez is an educator at the Brooklyn Public Library's Center for Brooklyn History, USA.
Brooklyn Public Library (BPL), USA, was established in 1896 and is one of the nation's largest public library systems with more than 850,000 active cardholders.
Autor*in
CUNY New York City College of Technology, USA
New York Public Library, USA
Vorwort
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
