Posted in artifacts, boston massacre, historical thinking, history, lesson plans, middle school, primary sources, social studies, strategies, tip of the week, tagged boston massacre, history, history tech, lesson plans, primary documents, social studies, strategy, wiebe on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
History teachers have always used primary sources in their classrooms, usually in one of two ways.
The first might be called the single source approach. A teacher intersperses a single document (such as the Declaration of Independence) throughout a unit to support their instruction and content.
The second can be described as the multiple source approach. A [...]
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Posted in Germany, artifacts, history, images, lesson plans, photos, primary sources, professional development, social studies, strategies, tagged genocide, history, history tech, holocaust, Jewish, lesson plans, primary documents, strategies, wiebe, world war two on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Got an email from a colleague the other day and towards the bottom, he mentioned the blog site of the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education. The MCHE is based in the Kansas City area and has been doing tremendous stuff for years. Tons of resources and materials that you can use. They’ve also done a [...]
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Posted in 21st century skills, artifacts, digital literacy, library, media literacy, podcast, primary sources, social networks, technology integration, tagged archive, digital literacy, facebook, history tech, library, library of congress, primary sources, social networks, wiebe on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not sure what your mental image is of the Library of Congress. Mine used to be quiet reading room, huge stacks, grumpy shushing gray haired librarians and stuffy atmosphere. (And, of course, that huge underground facility where they stored Indiana Jones’ Ark of the Covenant!)
But my mental image has changed over the last few [...]
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Posted in artifacts, history, photos, primary sources, social studies, tagged artifacts, history, history tech, letters, photographs, primary sources, social studies, veterans, wiebe, world war one on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last week I wrote a quick post concerning Veteran’s Day resources and received a comment from Rich Landers who has created a very unique site titled Soldier’s Mail. The site is based on the letters, photographs and artifacts of his great uncle, Sam Avery of the US Army.
Readers may also be interested in the writings [...]
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Posted in artifacts, historical thinking, history, lesson plans, primary sources, social studies, strategies, tagged history, history tech, lesson plans, social studies, strategies, testbooks, wiebe on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have read and used a few good textbooks, Joy Hakim’s History of US comes to mind. The key word in that sentence, of course, is few. Most textbooks do a pretty poor job of providing context for their content and giving kids concrete examples of history.
But there is hope. Cheri Lucas of Edutopia provides [...]
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