15 Primary Source Activities

15 Primary Source Activities
Author: Louise Hopping
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2003-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439251846

Contains ready-to-use plays, readings, simulations, map projects, and other motivating activities based on historical documents.

The Teaching with Primary Sources Cookbook

The Teaching with Primary Sources Cookbook
Author: Julie M. Porterfield
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2021-05-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0838937438

This collection brings together the work of archivists, librarians, museum professionals, and other educators who evoke the power of primary sources to teach information literacy skills to a variety of audiences.

The Teachers March!

The Teachers March!
Author: Sandra Neil Wallace
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2020-09-29
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1635924537

FOUR STARRED REVIEWS! NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book ° Booklist Editors' Choice ° Jane Addams Children's Book Award, Finalist ° A Notable Book for a Global Society ★ "An alarmingly relevant book that mirrors current events." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review Demonstrating the power of protest and standing up for a just cause, here is an exciting tribute to the educators who participated in the 1965 Selma Teachers' March. Reverend F.D. Reese was a leader of the Voting Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama. As a teacher and principal, he recognized that his colleagues were viewed with great respect in the city. Could he convince them to risk their jobs--and perhaps their lives--by organizing a teachers-only march to the county courthouse to demand their right to vote? On January 22, 1965, the Black teachers left their classrooms and did just that, with Reverend Reese leading the way. Noted nonfiction authors Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace conducted the last interviews with Reverend Reese before his death in 2018 and interviewed several teachers and their family members in order to tell this story, which is especially important today.

Runaway

Runaway
Author: Ray Anthony Shepard
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 23
Release: 2021-01-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0374389225

A powerful poem about Ona Judge's life and her self-emancipation from George Washington’s household. Ona Judge was enslaved by the Washingtons, and served the President's wife, Martha. Ona was widely known for her excellent skills as a seamstress, and was raised alongside Washington’s grandchildren. Indeed, she was frequently mistaken for his granddaughter. This poetic biography follows her childhood and adolescence until she decides to run away. Author Ray Anthony Shepard welcomes meaningful and necessary conversation among young readers about the horrors of slavery and the experience of house servants through call-and-response style lines. Illustrator Keith Mallett’s rich paintings include fabric collage and add further feeling and majesty to Ona’s daring escape. With extensive backmatter, this poem may serve as a new introduction to American slavery and Ona Judge's legacy.

Opening the Road

Opening the Road
Author: Keila V. Dawson
Publisher: Beaming Books
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2021-01-26
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1506468926

"Hungry? Check the Green Book. Tired? Check the Green Book. Sick? Check the Green Book." In the late 1930s when segregation was legal and Black Americans couldn't visit every establishment or travel everywhere they wanted to safely, a New Yorker named Victor Hugo Green decided to do something about it. Green wrote and published a guide that listed places where his fellow Black Americans could be safe in New York City. The guide sold like hot cakes! Soon customers started asking Green to make a guide to help them travel and vacation safely across the nation too. With the help of his mail carrier co-workers and the African American business community, Green's guide allowed millions of African Americans to travel safely and enjoy traveling across the nation. In the first picture book about the creation and distribution of The Green Book, author Keila Dawson and illustrator Alleanna Harris tell the story of the man behind it and how this travel guide opened the road for a safer, more equitable America.

Wood, Wire, Wings

Wood, Wire, Wings
Author: Kirsten W. Larson
Publisher: Thinkingdom
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2020-06-23
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1635924006

This riveting nonfiction picture book biography explores both the failures and successes of self-taught engineer Emma Lilian Todd as she tackles one of the greatest challenges of the early 1900s: designing an airplane. Emma Lilian Todd's mind was always soaring--she loved to solve problems. Lilian tinkered and fiddled with all sorts of objects, turning dreams into useful inventions. As a child, she took apart and reassembled clocks to figure out how they worked. As an adult, typing up patents at the U.S. Patent Office, Lilian built the inventions in her mind, including many designs for flying machines. However, they all seemed too impractical. Lilian knew she could design one that worked. She took inspiration from both nature and her many failures, driving herself to perfect the design that would eventually successfully fly. Illustrator Tracy Subisak's art brings to life author Kirsten W. Larson's story of this little-known but important engineer.

The Educator's Handbook for Teaching with Primary Sources

The Educator's Handbook for Teaching with Primary Sources
Author: Scott M. Waring
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2023
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0807769088

"This book introduces teaching with primary sources, including detailed examples of authentic and tested instructional ideas, approaches, and activities. It is designed to meet the needs of pre-K-12 teachers in social studies, English and language arts, mathematics, science, and other fields"--

100 Activities for Teaching Research Methods

100 Activities for Teaching Research Methods
Author: Catherine Dawson
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2016-08-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1473987407

A sourcebook of exercises, games, scenarios and role plays, this practical, user-friendly guide provides a complete and valuable resource for research methods tutors, teachers and lecturers. Developed to complement and enhance existing course materials, the 100 ready-to-use activities encourage innovative and engaging classroom practice in seven areas: finding and using sources of information planning a research project conducting research using and analyzing data disseminating results acting ethically developing deeper research skills. Each of the activities is divided into a section on tutor notes and student handouts. Tutor notes contain clear guidance about the purpose, level and type of activity, along with a range of discussion notes that signpost key issues and research insights. Important terms, related activities and further reading suggestions are also included. Not only does the A4 format make the student handouts easy to photocopy, they are also available to download and print directly from the book’s companion website for easy distribution in class.