Summer School Curriculum


Draft Student Workbook

Historian Toolkit Draft

  1. Introduction Resources: These resources are designed to introduce Library of Congress Resources for a particular Subject Area.
  2. Model Activities: These primary source-based Learning Experiences are designed for meetings and conferences when participants do not have access to computers or the Internet. Model Activities either showcase the breadth of Library of Congress resources related to a topic or explore the depth of a particular collection related to a specific topic. Model Activites use a specific teaching strategy to model Best Instructional Practices.
  3. Explore and Design Workshops: These workshops are designed for participants with computers and Internet access.
  4. Primary Access
  5. Subject Area Courses: In development

Primary Sources at the Library of Congress

Essential Question:

How can primary sources be used to deepen student understanding?

Understanding Goal Understanding Goal

Primary Sources foster student understanding of the curriculum through the processes of explanation, application, interpretation, empathy, perspective, and self-knowledge.

As a result of this workshop,

participants will know

  • Primary sources can be used to widen students' understanding.
  • Primary sources that are available at the Library of Congress.

participants will be able to

  • Navigate the Library of Congress Web site.
  • Draw meaning from primary sources.

Performance tasks

  • Identify evidence in a primary source to support an opinion.
  • Investigate the Library of Congress Web site for useful resources.
  • Share brainstormed ideas of classroom applications using the model activities.

Agenda

Welcome and Introductions

Model Activity Using Primary Sources

Clues to a Poet: Langston Hughes (link to a page with all of the Langston huges stuff)

Searching for Teaching Treasures Tour of American Memory

Using the Flash Drive and Saving Resources

Scavenger Hunt (link to a page with all of the hunts)

Eye Spy Math

Beyond American Memory

Closing and Evaluation