Teaching with Primary Sources

1. What are Primary and Secondary Sources (make a list)?
   
   
2. Complete the Leaving Evidence of Our Lives (PDB) lesson and determine what are primary and secondary sources
   
   
3. What are primary and secondary sources (make a two column list)?
   - Tertiary Sources
   
   
4. What is your question?
   
   
5. Revisit your list of primary and secondary sources (modify, add, etc.)
   
   
6. Discuss and create a list
   
   
7. Defining Primary Sources (Teacher Created Materials)
   
   
8. More about Primary Sources
   - http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources
   
   
9. Analyzing Sources with Novice Level Students
   - Primary Sources Analysis Tool
   - Teacher's Guide to Analysis
   - Image (Bibliographic Information)


10. What is it? (Name and purpose)
    
    - Introducing Artifacts to Students (and Teachers)
    - Library of Congress
    - eBay
    
    
11. Hide and Seek
    - Image (Smaller version) (Bibliographic information)
    - Image 2 (Bibliographic Information)
    
    
12. Pockets (PDB)
    - Video of Pockets
    
    - National Archives and Records Administration Primary Source Analysis Sheets
    
    
13. Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers by Karen Winnick (Book Backdrops)          
    - Brainstorm a list of dates, people and or events that might
              have primary source connections to the book
    - Examine printouts of these items. Discuss how adding these
      primary sources to the reading process will provide multiple
       ways to increase student inquiry and learning.
    
     - New York Times - Disunion (Bayonets in Buffalo / Lincoln: A Beard Is Born)
    - Letter
    - Grace Bedell Video
    
    
14. Thomas Garber Lesson

     

James McGrail in Union uniform with shoulder scales and eagle breast plate sitting with a musket and bayonet in scabbard (N.D.). [Photograph]. Library of Congress. Retrieved from http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2010648829.