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Posted by: Danna Bell
Use primary sources to help students hone the skills needed to analyze and evaluate both historical primary sources and information they see on social media and other outlets.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Danna Bell
Use Chronicling America to explore how people covered the arrival of cicadas in the past.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Danna Bell
Learn how to engage students visiting exhibitions using close looking and reading items from the collections.
Posted in: African American History, Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Danna Bell
Use your students prior experiences with exhibits to help them effectively engage with Rosa Parks online exhibition.
Posted in: African American History, Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Danna Bell
Use the big idea or theme of an exhibition to help students understand and connect personally with the primary sources used.
Posted in: African American History, Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Explore strategies to address difficult topics by applying information literacy approaches to historical primary sources.
Posted in: Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Teachers are encouraged to remind students that they are eyewitnesses to history and to encourage them to create primary sources that capture their experiences,
Posted in: Contemporary United States (1945-present), Teaching Strategies