Day 2

Use Primary Sources to Create new Connections in STEAM Education While at the Museum of Fine Arts

“Use Primary Sources to Create new Connections in STEAM Education While at the Museum of Fine Arts”

Day 2: July 26, 2017

9:00 a.m.

    • Activation Activity: Padlet
      • What does a primary source look like in your curriculum?
      • How could that be expanded to create new opportunities for inquiry? UDL?
      • TPS Level 2/Project Objectives

9:30 a.m.

    • Justifying Primary Sources
      • Primary vs. Secondary
      • The what and why

9:45 a.m.

    • Running the Observe Reflect Question protocol

10:15 a.m.

    • Justification continued
      • Engagement, Critical Thinkings, Constructing Knowledge
      • Science and the Arts (as an example)
      • Protocol recap with photographs
      • QFT/Inquiry/PBL Shoutouts

10:45 a.m.

    • Using the Library of Congress and loc.gov/teachers
    • How to find what you need
    • Teaching tools and primary sources

11:15 a.m.

      • Search for helpful primary sources and teaching tools
      • Share on Padlet wall
      • Discuss

12:00 p.m. Lunch on your own (explore the museum and grounds)

1:15 p.m.

    • Lesson Build
      • How do the on-site and online primary sources interact?
      • What other primary sources could be used?
      • How have you created new opportunities for inquiry? What other pedagogy is utilized?
      • How are you breaking traditional subject barriers?

2:30 p.m.

    • Lesson plan group share-out

2:45 p.m.

    • Course feedback form/survey
    • Next steps

3:00 p.m. -- End of Day 2

Homework:

Complete your lesson. Teach your lesson. Evaluate and reflect upon your lesson.

During the follow up meeting, please be prepared to share.

Continue to use www.loc.gov and http://www.loc.gov/teachers/ for primary sources, ideas, resources, and lesson plans.

Email us if you ever have any questions!

Extended Learning

Please feel free to explore the following resources to learn even more about STEAM, Primary Sources, and Inquiry

The following from Teaching with Primary Sources Quarterly, provide helpful articles and activities for using TPS strategies with science, arts, and PBL.