Winter Reflections with Primary Sources
Posted by: Michael Apfeldorf
This post features a variety of primary source analysis activities using the Library of Congress's Winter Free to Use and Reuse set.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies
Category: Teaching Strategies
Photographs and Persuasive Campaigns
Posted by: Michael Apfeldorf
The post features primary sources and teaching strategies illustrating how photographs have been used as part of mass persuasion campaigns.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Teaching Strategies
The Many Emotions of Purchasing a Liberty Bond: Understanding Persuasive Posters
Posted by: Michael Apfeldorf
Apply information literacy skills to WWI era media that appeals to emotion.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Literacy, Teaching Strategies
Women’s Suffrage: Analyzing Conditional Arguments in Historical Primary Sources
Posted by: Michael Apfeldorf
Using primary sources related to the women's suffrage movement, the blog includes information literacy strategies for understanding how persuasive arguments are constructed.
Posted in: Literacy, Teaching Strategies, Women's History
Beulah Henry Finds Invention Inspiration in Everyday Items: Primary Sources in Three-Dimensional Science Learning
Posted by: Michael Apfeldorf
This blog post illustrates how STEM teachers can use free primary sources related to the famous female inventor, Beulah Henry, to engage students in three-dimensional learning.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math, Teaching Strategies, Women's History
The Intelligent Vegetable Martians are Coming! Analyzing Historical Newspapers to Practice Information Literacy Skills
Posted by: Michael Apfeldorf
A key aspect of information literacy is evaluating the relationship between claims and evidence: Do claims follow clearly and logically from evidence? Can the evidence also support alternate claims? Guide students to apply information literacy skills to a 1912 article “Mars Peopled by One Giant Thinking Vegetable.”
Posted in: Literacy, Science Technology and Math, Teaching Strategies