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Teacher Treasures from the Library of Congress Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ Slide 2 Sherrie Metzger-Galloway sgal@loc.gov Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Primary Source Activity Why Use Primary Sources Overview www.loc.govwww.loc.gov Teacher Resources Q&A Agenda ETech Ohio February 1, 2010 3:00-4:30 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ Slide 3 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ Handout Slide 4 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ Slide 5 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ Activity: Connecting With Primary Sources Slide 6 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ Activity: Connecting With Primary Sources Slide 7 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ Activity: Connecting With Primary Sources Slide 8 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ Activity: Connecting With Primary Sources Slide 9 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ Activity: Connecting With Primary Sources Slide 10 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ Activity: Connecting With Primary Sources Slide 11 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ Activity: Connecting With Primary Sources Slide 12 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ Activity: Connecting With Primary Sources Slide 13 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ Activity: Connecting With Primary Sources PD Builder: Connecting with Primary Sources Slide 14 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ Activity: Connecting With Primary Sources PD Builder: Connecting with Primary Sources Slide 15 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ Slide 16 Education Outreach 142 million items 650 miles of bookshelves 470 languages 22,000 items arrive daily 10,000 items added to the collection daily 19+ million items online www.loc.gov/teachers/ Slide 17 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ LOC Primary Sources Slide 18 Education Outreach Why Use Primary Sources Primary sources provide a window into the pastunfiltered access to the record of artistic, social, scientific and political thought and achievement during the specific period under study, produced by people who lived during that period. www.loc.gov/teachers/ Slide 19 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ Bringing young people into close contact with these unique, often profoundly personal, documents and objects can give them a very real sense of what it was like to be alive during a long-past era. Slide 20 Education Outreach Why Use Primary Sources www.loc.gov/teachers/ Engage Learners Relate Encourage research Make events real Develop Critical Thinking State standards support critical analysis Often incomplete, no context Analysis process: observations to making inferences Question bias, purpose, point of view Construct Knowledge Confront complexity of past Form reasoned conclusions based on evidence Construct content knowledge from process Slide 21 Education Outreach www.loc.gov Slide 22 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ Slide 23 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ Slide 24 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ Slide 25 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ Slide 26 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ Slide 27 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ Many opportunities for professional development Slide 28 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ Choose from 13 activities to build your own pd Slide 29 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ Take a self-paced interactive module Slide 30 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ Ohio Connection: Teaching With Primary Sources Johanna Moyer, Ph.D. Department of History, Miami University http://www.ham.muohio.edu/tah4/loc_1/index.htm#lessons Megan Woods, State Coordinator, National History Day www.ohiohistoryday.org Dr. Anne Abate Southwest Ohio and Neighboring Libraries Regional Library System http://www.swonlibraries.org Slide 31 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ Slide 32 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ Slide 33 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ Slide 34 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ News and Events Kathy M. Wells Unioto High School Chillicothe, OH Slide 35 Education Outreach www.loc.gov/teachers/ Join with us at www.loc.gov/teachers www.loc.gov/teachers and sow the seeds of learning with primary sources! Slide 36 Education Outreach Questions & Answers Sherrie Metzger-Galloway Library of Congress sgal@loc.gov www.loc.gov/teachers/