Using the Question Formulation Technique to Guide Primary Source Learning
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Examine with Historical Reading skills: sourcing, contextualization, corroboration and close reading
Designed for high school and college teachers and students, History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers other useful materials for teaching U.S. history. Created by the American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning (Graduate Center, CUNY) and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (George Mason University).
Links to the History Profession's major institutions
"Welcome to The Internet History Sourcebooks Project, a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. Primary sources are available here mainly for use in high-school and university/college courses"
"The Reading Like a Historian curriculum engages students in historical inquiry. Each lesson revolves around a central historical question and features a set of primary documents designed for groups of students with a range of reading skills."
Historical misinformation abounds online. Improve students' ability to evaluate historical information on the internet with these curricular materials.
"Explore over 140 easy-to-use assessments that measure students' historical thinking rather than recall of facts. Beyond the Bubble was created with the support of the Library of Congress’s Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program."
"A zine, short for fanzine or magazine, is a DIY & subculture self-publication, usually made on paper and reproduced with a photocopier or printer. Zine creators are often motivated by a desire to share knowledge or experience with people in marginalized or otherwise less-empowered communities"
Great final project to demonstrate understanding of concepts/topic
Top 100 Speeches, 21st Centure Speeches and more.