Primary Source Purpose Help

A portion of a lesson is usually one of three things:

• Uses primary sources to help students recognize their current understanding, knowledge, and skills related to the content of the lesson. Introductions are often a warm-up to intrigue and interest students, a review or introduction of prior knowledge needed for the lesson, and/or pre-assessment of student understanding, knowledge, and/or skill.


• Challenges students to use and adjust their understanding of a subject through reading, analyzing, and interpreting primary source(s) to consider the source's impact on the subject under study. Investigations begin with a question and end by answering the question and reflecting on how the answer connects to an explicit Understanding Goal.
  


• Requires students to demonstrate understanding, knowledge, and skill goals for the lesson through a product or performance requiring use of primary sources. It is often used at the end of a lesson.

Grade Help

Although a Learning Experience may be used with multiple grade levels, one range must be chosen for database searching ability. The grade ranges shown are intended to help when beginning to search the database. Consider examining the grade levels around the specific intended class when searching for a Learning Experience.

Standards Help

Reference the appropriate state standard addressed in this Learning Experience. Published Learning Experiences will be correlated to all state standards in the United States.

NCSS Based Eras

US 1 - Three worlds meet (Beginnings to 1620)

US 2 - Colonization and settlement (1585-1763)

US 3 - Revolution and the new nation (1754-1820s)

US 4 - Expansion and reform (1801-1861)

US 5 - Civil War and reconstruction (1850-1877)

US 6 - The development of the industrial US (1870-1900)

US 7 - The emergence of modern America (1890-1930)

US 8 - The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)

US 9 - Post war United States (1945 to early 1970s)

US 10 - Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)

World 1 - The beginnings of human society (to 4000 BCE)

World 2 - Early civ's & pastoral peoples (4000-1000 BCE)

World 3 - Traditions, religions, & empires (1000 BCE - 300)

World 4 - Expanding exchange and encounter (300-1000)

World 5 - Intensified hemisphere interactions (1000-1500)

World 6 - Emergence of the first global age (1450-1770)

World 7 - An age of revolutions (1750-1914)

World 8 - Half century of crisis & achievement (1900-1945)

World 9 - The 20th century since 1945 (1945-)

All Time Periods

US - All Time Periods

World - All Time Periods