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Sourcing Practice

Carrie Emmerson

Hi there, OER Peeps!

One skill I'd really like to work on with my students this year is Sourcing.  I just watched and enjoyed  's 2021 OER Conference for the SS presentation on Sourcing (located in the Community Video Library) and liked it a lot - in particular, the regular practicing of the skill, and the shorter version of the graphic organizer (I am also intrigued and impressed by just focusing on the attribution line, and not the document content - Bold!  But good!). 

I tried Sourcing a couple of times last year with my on-level (Honors) students and found the Sourcing Tool a bit overwhelming for them and for me.  In addition to getting a copy of Ane's shorter copy, I am curious to know what other tips or tricks, or strategies folks have used to get students into the habit of looking at the source info. first?

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  • Hi  , sourcing is a skill that I really started rethinking my approach to last year. Ultimately, I came up with this organizer that students glued into their World History notebooks. I teach 9th grade so sourcing is very new to them so there was a lot of scaffolding and modeling around this organizer. I also started using it well into 2nd semester last year so I remember having the most success with it and the Holocaust primary sources. Getting them to not only identify the important sourcing information but also the significance of that sourcing information in the context of the broader question at hand was huge. 

    I'm curious to learn what you end up trying out with your students!

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  • Hi  , sourcing is a skill that I really started rethinking my approach to last year. Ultimately, I came up with this organizer that students glued into their World History notebooks. I teach 9th grade so sourcing is very new to them so there was a lot of scaffolding and modeling around this organizer. I also started using it well into 2nd semester last year so I remember having the most success with it and the Holocaust primary sources. Getting them to not only identify the important sourcing information but also the significance of that sourcing information in the context of the broader question at hand was huge. 

    I'm curious to learn what you end up trying out with your students!

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