The discovery of Greenland

The Discovery of Greenland. Harper's weekly, v. 19, (1875 Sept. 25), p. 780. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Miscellaneous Items in High Demand.

Overview

Participants explore the Best Instructional Practice of Differentiated Instruction through the model activities and reflection on personal learning strengths. Participants practice writing exemplary descriptions of primary source-based Learning Experiences. Participants work as research patrons in the Prints and Photographs Division. Participants describe the publishing criteria for the Primary Source Learning Experience Collection and offer useful feedback for revisions to designers of Learning Experiences.

Performance Tasks

  • Relate differentiated instruction as it relates to student demonstration of Understanding, Knowledge, and Skills.
  • Investigate Prints and Photographs Online Collection (PPOC) and identify useful resources.
  • Create understanding goals that connect to big ideas, support theories, and create real world products.
  • Review Learning Experiences based on Primary Source Learning Experience Collection criteria.

Understanding Goal Understanding Goal

Learn with Primary Sources Workshop Series provides differentiated opportunities for exploration and discovery.

Investigative Question Investigative Question

What does differentiated facilitation look like?

Knowledge

  • Primary source inquiry is a learning process that involves asking questions and making discoveries that lead to new understanding.
  • Primary sources vary in levels of ambiguity, abstractness, and complexity.

Skills

  • Draw inferences about a person, a historical event, a time period, or an abstract theme using primary sources.
  • Recognize differentiated instruction in terms of content, process, and product.
  • Recognize differentiated instruction in terms of academic readiness level within a student learning experience.
  • Use search strategies to locate items in the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC).
  • Build an Understanding Goal based on knowledge of a subject.