Engaging Young Learners with Primary Sources
Can teaching with primary sources engage young learners? Exposure to these raw materials can spark students' imaginations and support inquiry, historical thinking, and constructive learning. If you've ever wondered how early elementary students develop historical thinking skills, take a look at this lesson as Teresa St. Angelo works with a group of kindergarten historians.
Contributor:
Library of Congress
Date:2017
Film, Video
Analyzing a Primary Source
This film presents a short primary source analysis activity for teachers that includes observation, reflection and questioning.
Contributor:
Library of Congress
Date:2015
Film, Video
Building Literacy Muscle with Primary Sources
This session shared examples of instructional strategies which use diverse and thoughtfully selected primary sources to develop understanding, academic language and fluency, freeing students to focus on content.
Contributor:
Library of Congress
Date:2015
Film, Video
Teacher Resource: Inquiry & Primary Sources Overview
Using primary sources with inquiry empowers students to ask their own questions, construct their own understandings, draw conclusions, create new knowledge and share the knowledge with others. Watch Barbara Stripling discuss why primary sources are essential to the inquiry process.
Contributor:
Library of Congress
Date:2015
Film, Video
Teacher Resource: PS 153 & New York Draft Riots Unit
Three educators from PS 153 in New York City open share their teaching practices of using primary sources with their 4th graders. They developed a unit on the New York Draft Riots of 1863 and integrated the inquiry process into their lesson plans.
Contributor:
Library of Congress
Date:2015
Film, Video
Teacher Resource: Inquiry - Wonder
Students will develop focus questions to guide their investigations while wondering during the inquiry process. Jacqueline Brathwait guides students in a discussion on what they already know about the Draft Riots and see them begin to develop questions for further exploration.
Contributor:
Library of Congress
Date:2015
Film, Video
Teacher Resource: Inquiry - Investigate
When investigating, students will evaluate information to answer questions and test hypotheses. Watch as Earnestine Sweeting has her students use the Library of Congress primary source analysis tool to further investigate events from the New York Draft Riots.
Contributor:
Library of Congress
Date:2015
Film, Video
Teacher Resource: Inquiry - Construct
The most challenging part of any teaching practice is to have students construct knowledge. Teachers must guide students to organize and draw conclusions from information they have found, to confront conflicting ideas and form their own evidence-based opinions, and to be ready to take a stand and defend it. Watch as Shelly Sanderson's students construct new understanding by looking at images of New York…
Contributor:
Library of Congress
Date:2015
Film, Video
Teacher Resource: Inquiry - Reflect
Inquiry is a cycle. Reflection is embedded throughout the inquiry process, but it is especially important at the end of a learning experience for students to think about what they have learned about the topic or idea and about inquiry itself. This video shows what new understandings and perspectives the students share with Jacqueline Braithwaite.
Contributor:
Library of Congress
Date:2015
Film, Video
Teacher Resource: Inquiry - Connect
Primary sources can be used during the initial phase of inquiry to open students' minds to the possibility of interpreting and questioning an information source. Shelly Sanderson uses a map to connect the students to the topic in order to gain background knowledge and context about the events of the New York Draft Riots.
Film, VideoEngaging Young Learners with Primary Sources Can teaching with primary sources engage young learners? Exposure to these raw materials can spark students' imaginations and support inquiry, historical thinking, and constructive learning. If you've ever wondered how early elementary students develop historical thinking skills, take a look at this lesson as Teresa St. Angelo works with a group of kindergarten historians.
Film, VideoAnalyzing a Primary Source This film presents a short primary source analysis activity for teachers that includes observation, reflection and questioning.
Film, VideoBuilding Literacy Muscle with Primary Sources This session shared examples of instructional strategies which use diverse and thoughtfully selected primary sources to develop understanding, academic language and fluency, freeing students to focus on content.
Film, VideoTeacher Resource: Inquiry & Primary Sources Overview Using primary sources with inquiry empowers students to ask their own questions, construct their own understandings, draw conclusions, create new knowledge and share the knowledge with others. Watch Barbara Stripling discuss why primary sources are essential to the inquiry process.
Film, VideoTeacher Resource: PS 153 & New York Draft Riots Unit Three educators from PS 153 in New York City open share their teaching practices of using primary sources with their 4th graders. They developed a unit on the New York Draft Riots of 1863 and integrated the inquiry process into their lesson plans.
Film, VideoTeacher Resource: Inquiry - Wonder Students will develop focus questions to guide their investigations while wondering during the inquiry process. Jacqueline Brathwait guides students in a discussion on what they already know about the Draft Riots and see them begin to develop questions for further exploration.
Film, VideoTeacher Resource: Inquiry - Investigate When investigating, students will evaluate information to answer questions and test hypotheses. Watch as Earnestine Sweeting has her students use the Library of Congress primary source analysis tool to further investigate events from the New York Draft Riots.
Film, VideoTeacher Resource: Inquiry - Construct The most challenging part of any teaching practice is to have students construct knowledge. Teachers must guide students to organize and draw conclusions from information they have found, to confront conflicting ideas and form their own evidence-based opinions, and to be ready to take a stand and defend it. Watch as Shelly Sanderson's students construct new understanding by looking at images of New York…
Film, VideoTeacher Resource: Inquiry - Reflect Inquiry is a cycle. Reflection is embedded throughout the inquiry process, but it is especially important at the end of a learning experience for students to think about what they have learned about the topic or idea and about inquiry itself. This video shows what new understandings and perspectives the students share with Jacqueline Braithwaite.
Film, VideoTeacher Resource: Inquiry - Connect Primary sources can be used during the initial phase of inquiry to open students' minds to the possibility of interpreting and questioning an information source. Shelly Sanderson uses a map to connect the students to the topic in order to gain background knowledge and context about the events of the New York Draft Riots.
Film, VideoEngaging Students with the Library of Congress Lee Ann Potter talks about how to engage students with the Library of Congress.