Workshop Four: Inquiry through Digital Primary Sources

Understanding Goal

How do primary sources challenge and inspire our memory, reason, and imagination?

Knowledge

• Digital primary sources can be integrated into a variety of computer applications to create differentiated Learning Experiences for students.
• Technology integration creates unique Learning Experiences for students.

Skills

• Determine the level of a student inquiry with primary sources used in a computer-based learning activity.
• Recognize the relationship between understanding goals and student products/performances.

Assessment

• Open Lab Checklist
• Peer feedback on Learning Experience development.

Investigative Question

How do digital primary sources provide unique opportunities for students to ask questions and make discoveries?

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1. Model Activities
   • "Zoom-In Inquiry"
   • Creating Resources
   • "Using Digital Primary Sources"

   Analyze Model Activity:

   • Best Instructional Practices Workshop Four
   • Primary Source Learning Design
   • Library of Congress Knowledge
   • PrimarySourceLearning.org resources: Search Learning Experience Collection for Learning Experiences using the Best Instructional Practice: Technology Integration
2. Search Strategy
   • Practice for the time Library of Congress items are saved without a title or URL.
   • Locate items in Search Strategy PDF File on the Library of Congress Web site using personalized search strategies.

   Performance tasks

   • Explain Possible Search Methods
     • Click here for help (Microsoft Word Document)
     • Citing Sources
3. Patron Actions

   What is your purpose for visiting the Library of Congress today?

   • Visitor - Find an online activity that you would use with your students. Save the link for that activity.
   • Researcher - Create an instructional resource based on digital primary sources for use with students.
   • Docent - Design a computer-based activity that challenges students to create a product demonstrating empathy for multiple viewpoints.

   Performance tasks

   • Create primary source-based Learning Experience(s).
4. Exit Card
   • How can we help you with your Learning Experiences?
   • What would you like to see us address in Workshop Five?

   Download Exit Card PDF File

5. Follow-up Activity
   • Create and implement primary source-based Learning Experiences.