April 2022

Session Resources: Primary Sources & Instructional Designs

Sample Instructional Activity: Out of the Dust

• Book Bits activity

Primary Sources

• Lucille Burroughs photo

• More LOC photos (Also found at Picryl)

• Her mom (Also found at Picryl)

• Her dad (Also here and at Picryl) 

• Learn more about Lucille here

• Sample Library of Congress lesson

• LOC Lesson Plan database

• 10 Criteria for Choosing Diverse Texts for Your Classroom

Other instructional activity templates

• Stanford History Education Group

• Inquiry Design Model

Instructional Activity Criteria

• Learning Environment Summary (Learner demographics, contact type & time, delivery system / structure)

• includes an overarching compelling question or inquiry

• focuses on a complicated topic

• includes Library of Congress primary source/s

• Includes a connection to fiction or non-fiction resource

• requires a student product that addresses the compelling question

TPS Teachers Network, overview, and useful groups

• TPS Teachers Network

• Tutorial cheat sheet

Possible Teacher Network Groups:

• • List of all groups

  • CRP 

  • ELL

  • Supporting Literacy with Primary Sources