Reading Like A Historian The Reading Like a Historian curriculum engages students in historical inquiry. Each lesson revolves around a central historical question and features sets of primary documents designed for groups of students with diverse reading skills and abilities. This curriculum teaches students how to investigate historical questions by employing reading strategies such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading. How do I use these lessons in my classroom? The 73 lessons in the U.S. curriculum, initial 37 lessons of the world curriculum, and 5 lessons in the introduction to historical thinking unit can be taught in succession. 1) Establish relevant background knowledge and pose the central historical question. *Note: United Streaming requires a subscription to Discovery Education. 2) Students read documents, answer guiding questions or complete a graphic organizer. 3) Whole-class discussion about a central historical question. Of course!
How to Implement Think-Aloud Strategies in Your Class Use this collection of guidelines, checklists, and assessment tools from Jeff Wilhelm's book Improving Comprehension With Think-Aloud Strategies to start using think-aloud strategies with your students. Getting Started There are several strategies, called general reading processes, which researchers have discovered readers use every time they read anything. If your students don't do these things, this is the place to start your think-aloud modeling since these strategies will have the greatest pay-off for them across all reading tasks. Use these guidelines for getting started with read-aloud technigues with your students: Guide and Monitor Instruction Rules of Notice Chart (PDF) Use this chart to list things that students notice when inferring character. Flow Chart of Comprehension Monitoring Behaviors (PDF) Navigate students through self-monitoring reading instruction. Guidelines for Determining an Author's Main Idea (PDF) Use this sample list to write a set of guidelines with your students.
About this Collection - Rosa Parks Papers | Collections | Library of Congress The papers of Rosa Parks (1913-2005) span the years 1866-2006, with the bulk of the material dating from 1955 to 2000. The collection contains approximately 7,500 items in the Manuscript Division, as well as 2,500 photographs in the Prints and Photographs Division. The collection documents many aspects of Parks's private life and public activism on behalf of civil rights for African Americans. Family papers include correspondence with her husband Raymond A. Parks; her mother, Leona Edwards McCauley; and her brother, Sylvester McCauley. Correspondence with her husband and mother contains the largest number of letters written by Parks in the collection. The collection also documents Parks's affiliation with organizations and institutions including the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development, an organization she founded with Elaine Eason Steele to promote youth development and civil rights education; Hampton Institute, Highlander Folk School, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tip of the Week – SOAP I met Wiley Popovitch at the NCSS conference several weeks ago and shared a handy, dandy primary graphic organizer with me that I hadn’t heard of before. Wiley teaches middle school in Arizona and says his kids use it a lot while working with primary sources. I like it too and figured I would pass it along. It’s called SOAP. SOAP stands for Source / Occasion / Audience / Purpose and was developed by Tommy Boyle at the University of Texas, El Paso to help integrate language arts and social studies. S = What kind of source is this? For high school kids, you may want to pump it up a bit to SOAPStone: S = What is the subject of the document? Have fun! Like this: Like Loading... Why Ages 2-7 Matter So Much for Brain Development When Albert Einstein was a child, few people—if any—anticipated the remarkable contributions he would make to science. His language development was delayed, worrying his parents to the point of consulting a doctor. His sister once confessed that Einstein “had such difficulty with language that those around him feared he would never learn.” How did this child go from potential developmental delays to becoming, well, Einstein? Part of the answer to that question is symbolized in two gifts that Einstein received from each of his parents when he was 5 years old. Children’s brains develop in spurts called critical periods. This first critical period of brain development begins around age 2 and concludes around age 7. Encourage a Love of Learning Young children need to enjoy the process of learning instead of focusing on performance. This period is also the time to establish a growth mindset—the belief that talents and abilities are developed through effort instead of being innately fixed.
Digital Collections and Services: Access to print, pictorial and audio-visual collections and other digital services Historic Newspapers Enhanced access to America's historic newspapers through the Chronicling America project. Historic Sound Recordings The National Jukebox features over 10,000 78rpm disc sides issued by the Victor Talking Machine Co. between 1900 and 1925. Performing Arts Collections, articles and special presentations on music, theater and dance materials from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia. Prints and Photographs Catalog of about half of the Library's pictorial holdings with over 1 million digital images. Veterans History Project Experience first-person stories of wartime service through personal artifacts, audio and video interviews.
review-Examining the Evidence: Seven Strategies Examining the Evidence: Seven Strategies for Teaching with Primary SourcesBy Kathleen Thompson and Hilary Mac Austin (Maupin House Publishing, 2014 – Learn more) Reviewed by Nicole C. Miller When I saw Examining the Evidence: Seven Strategies for Teaching with Primary Sources by Hilary Mac Austin and Kathleen Thompson on the list of choices for review, I immediately jumped on the opportunity. Not just for the Social Studies teacher Examining the Evidence focuses on the use of primary sources for teaching and learning, with a significant emphasis on the use of visual sources which are particularly accessible to elementary aged and middle level children. In order to help teachers and students examine primary sources successfully, the authors use a “historical thinking” framework as their foundation. The authors also effectively argue that emotion is an important hook to student engagement. Examining the evidence Strategies Strategy 1: Decide what you are looking at. Final thoughts Dr.
Resource from FCRR - SPE-509-0 Your password has expired and must be changed! Please update your password by resetting it now. Your account has been locked. Please wait for minutes and try again or contact your helpdesk/administrator. Your account has been locked. Please contact your helpdesk. Your account has been disabled. Your account has been expired. Invalid username or password. You need to setup your account first, click here to setup your account. Your password will expire in days.Click here to update your password. Student Discovery Sets - For Teachers (Library of Congress) The new Library of Congress Student Discovery Sets bring together historical artifacts and one-of-a-kind documents on a wide range of topics, from history to science to literature. Interactive tools let students zoom in, draw to highlight details, and conduct open-ended primary source analysis. Full teaching resources are available for each set. Children's Lives at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Children of a century past: How were their lives different from today's? The Constitution The drafts and debates that brought the Constitution and the Bill of Rights into being, including notes by the documents' framers. The Dust Bowl Songs, maps, and iconic photographs document the daily ordeals of rural migrant families during a disastrous decade. The Harlem Renaissance Discover some of the innovative thinkers and creative works that contributed to the cultural movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. Immigration The Industrial Revolution The U.S.' Japanese American Internment The New Deal
Discussing Art The Artful Thinking program takes the image of an artist’s palette as its central metaphor. The artful thinking palette is comprised of 6 thinking dispositions – 6 basic colors, or forms, of intellectual behavior – that have dual power: They are powerful ways of exploring works of art, and powerful ways of exploring subjects across the school curriculum. The Artful Thinking palette comes alive through the use of “thinking routines.” Each thinking disposition has several thinking routines connected to it. Thinking routines are short, easy-to-learn mini-strategies that extend and deepen students’ thinking and become part of the fabric of everyday classroom life. I’ve redesigned the booklet and if you are a classroom teacher, you may find the resource of use to use visual art in your curriculum. You can download the pdf via Issuu here, or via Google Docs. Use images and works of art to generate class discussions, artwork and writing ideas. The Expressive Qualities of Art article