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What Works? Teaching History to Middle School Kids
1. What Works?
Teaching History
to Middle School
Kids
2. “A morsel of genuine history is a
thing so rare as to be always
valuable.”
Thomas Jefferson
1817
3. Primary / secondary?
Old history Copy of a
textbook forwarded email
New history Diary
textbook Live blog on a
The Wild Blue computer
Photo Digital photo on
Artifact laptop
World Book Wikipedia article
6. Direct traces of the event
Accounts created at the time it
occurred, by firsthand observers and
participants
7. Direct traces of the event
Accounts created at the time it
occurred, by firsthand observers and
participants
Accounts created after the event
occurred, by firsthand observers and
participants
9. Definitions?
Primary sources?
•Contemporary accounts of an event,
created by someone who experienced or
witnessed the event in question
•“a first-hand account of an event, person,
or place”
10. Secondary sources?
•Materials that interpret, assign value to,
conjecture upon, and draw conclusions
about the events reported in primary
sources
•“An account of an event, person, or place
that is not first-hand”
37. Primary sources are reliable
Primary sources are naturally
engaging for all students
38. Primary sources are reliable
Primary sources are naturally
engaging for all students
Evidence can be neatly packaged as
primary or secondary
39. Primary sources are reliable
Primary sources are naturally
engaging for all students
Evidence can be neatly packaged as
primary or secondary
The more primary sources the better
42. Some basics
History Frame
•Graphic organizer
Fence Sitter
•Industrial Revolution was good for the US
43. Some basics
History Frame
•Graphic organizer
Fence Sitter
•Industrial Revolution was good for the US
List / Group / Label
•Brown vs. Board of Education
