Teaching with Primary Sources @ Metro State

REVOLUTIONary Learning!

Academy 20 in the 21st Century

REVOLUTIONary Learning!  Inquiry and Critical Thinking Using Primary Sources

This workshop introduces an inquiry-learning model, using primary sources available through the Library of Congress.  Participants will conduct an abbreviated inquiry into the topic of Revolutions, then consider how inquiry and primary sources can help students master the topics and concepts in the revised Colorado standards.

Primary source documents cross multiple disciplinary areas, and are available digitally for examination from multiple eras of time. They inspire curiosity and prompt interesting questions, thereby creating conditions that encourage deeper thinking and understanding.

Workshop Agenda

Teaching with Primary Sources Level I Workshop

The Library of Congress is an amazing resource. Learn to navigate its breadth and organization to find what’s available, narrow your search to what’s applicable and access what you need in a format that’s usable.  Level I not only demonstrates the value of primary sources in instruction and sample learning experiences, it also gives you the technological foundation to find resources amid millions of digitized options that grow all the time. Leave this course with primary sources that fit your instructional style and plenty of ideas for using primary sources to enrich instruction. 

Goal

Teachers become familiar with the breadth and organization of the Library of Congress' digital primary sources, understand their value in instruction and create basic inquiry-based learning experiences.

Objectives
Upon completion participants should be able to:

• Explain what primary sources are and understand their value in teaching
• Locate and navigate the Library of Congress website
• Access, save and present primary sources from the Library of Congress website
• Gain a foundational understanding of best instructional practices for teaching with primary sources
• Create basic inquiry-based learning experiences that integrate primary sources from the Library of Congress website

   

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