Understanding Goal Understanding Goal

Primary sources can be used as assessment tools to both reveal and further student understanding.

Directions

  1. Evaluate sample lessons to identify Best Instructional Practices and determine quality of integration of primary sources.

Best Instructional Practices

Sample Learning Experiences

Activity Type Grade Subject /
Sub-Subject		 Lesson Title
Introduction 1 Library Biographies of Famous American Leaders
Introduction 2 Arts / Music Sort-It-Out Musical Instrument Classification
Introduction 2 Science / Life Science Wetlands
Introduction 2 Social Studies / World History Intro to Ancient Egypt
Introduction 3 Math / Computation/Estimation Multiplication Rhymes
Introduction 4 Language Arts / Writing What if you Were There?
Introduction 4 Library Segregation
Introduction 4 Social Studies Zoom In:  Monitor and Merrimac
Introduction 5 Arts "Sort It Out:" American Symbols
Introduction 6 Foreign Language Proper and Common Nouns
Introduction 6 PE/Health Warm-Ups: Now and Then
Introduction 6 Science / Earth Science Natural Resources
Introduction 6 Social Studies Building Responsible Communities in Colonial America
Introduction 7 Arts / Art Zoom In- Mary Cassatt
Introduction 7 Language Arts Visualizing Using Detailed Images
Introduction 7 Math / Ratios & Percents Branding of America: products and change
Introduction 9 Social Studies / World History Cold War- Cuban Missile Crisis
Introduction 9 - 12 Arts / Art Introduction to Wood Block Prints
Introduction 9 - 12 Foreign Languages / Latin Warm Up for Latin II and III
Introduction 10 PE/Health Prohibition Zoom In
Introduction 10 Professional Studies Working
Introduction 11 Science / Physics Erosion by Water (Geophysics)
Introduction 12 Language Arts / Reading Zoom In Grapes of Wrath
Investigation Pre-K Social Studies Pancakes - Comparing Photographs
Investigation K-1 Social Studies Past vs. Present
Investigation K-2 Language Arts / Oral Language Jack and the Beanstalk Literacy Activities
Investigation 1 Language Arts / Oral Language How things Change - Glen Echo park
Investigation 2 English as a Second Language Sound Out the Letter (S)
Investigation 2 Foreign Languages / Spanish De Quien es esto Escudo?
Investigation 3 Library Introduction to Primary Sources
Investigation 3 Social Studies U.S. Presidents (Life in a Box)
Investigation 3 - 5 PE/Health Healthy Choices - FitSmart Club
Investigation 3 Social Studies / Explorers Visual Discovery: Christopher Columbus
Investigation 4 Science / Physical Science The weather – Tools to measure and control the weather.
Investigation 4 Social Studies / U.S. History Revolutionary War / Caption It
Investigation 5 Arts / Music Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts
Investigation 5 Language Arts Print and Non-Print Features:  What’s the Same?
Investigation 6 Language Arts / Poetry Through the Eye of the Poet
Investigation 6 Math / Geometry Angles in Action
Investigation 6 Social Studies / U.S. History Civil War – Description of Life in the South
Investigation 7 Language Arts / Poetry Poetry in Unlikely Places - JKF’s Inaugeration
Investigation 7 Science / Life Science Life in a Biome
Investigation 9 - 12 Social Studies / Government Political Cartoons
Investigation 12 Language Arts Government Camp Governance-- How realistic is Steinbeck's portrayal?
Performance
Assessment		 K Social Studies Community Helper Matching Game
Performance
Assessment		 2 Science / Earth Science Ecosystems
Formal
Assessment		 2 Social Studies / U.S. History Native American Tribes - Sort Them Out
Performance
Assessment		 3 Social Studies / World History Sort-It-Out: Greece vs. Rome
Formal
Assessment		 5 Language Arts / Writing Norwegian Immigrants Writing Response
Performance
Assessment		 6 Social Studies U.S. Constitution
Formal
Assessment		 6 Social Studies / World History European Exploration
Performance
Assessment		 6 - 7 Language Arts Matching Images with Character “Voice”
Formal
Assessment		 8 Math / Geometry Geometry
Formal
Assessment		 8 Social Studies / Geography Landforms and States
Formal
Assessment		 9 Social Studies / World History Reviewing 20th Century Conflicts
Formal
Assessment		 10 - 11 Math / Geometry Geometry Terms/Symmetry