Creating Student Sleuths - Primary Source Investigation (BYOL) at ISTE

Presented by:
Stevie Kline, Intermediate Unit 1- klines@iu1.k12.pa.us
Joyce Mason, Canon-McMillan High School - masonj@cmsd.k12.pa.us

Welcome and link to resources used during workshop: Jog the Web link

Primary Sources Help Students:

• ask questions
• acknowledge various points of view
• establish the context for historical events
• allow the discovery of evidence
• see cause and effect relationships
• compare and contrast evidence
• understand continuity and change over time
• consider and recognize bias
• question the source of the information
• realize the importance of referencing multiple resources

How do our students become sleuths?

• LOTS & HOTS: Interactive New Blooms  Romano and Gates Blooms.ppt
• Lots (Lower Order Thinking Skills): Remember, Understand, Apply
• Hots (Higher Order Thinking Skills): Create, Evaluate, Analyze

 Intro to the US Archives website and an activity with a speech by FDR about the Declaration of War Against Japan on December 8, 1941 and then showed the revised version with FDR's changes written on it. in handwriting . The feeling you get from the primary source was very powerful.

We used WORDLE to analyze text. We also posted our own poems on Wall Wisher.

Using Digital Vaults: Over 1200 digital images and content to make a movie or a poster. It encourages creativity and historical thinking. It has a powerful image connection tool and gives you links to primary sources.

We used the Digital Vaults at the US National Archives to create a poster or a video.