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Classroom connection: primary-source power!

Becca Horowitz
Thank you for joining us to practice an approach to sourcing that engages students in critical thinking.  shared tools for analyzing sources: check out the Sourcing (HAPPY) Tool and the Quick-Sourcing Tool.
We'd love to hear your thinking and your takeaways!
  • What's the power of teaching with primary sources?
  • How do you get students to dig into sourcing?
  • What are any challenges you notice students struggling with when analyzing primary sources?
Chime in with your ideas, tools, approaches, and questions to fellow teachers. Bonus points for sharing student work (anonymized, of course!).
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  • I think that teaching with primary sources goes a long way toward supporting the "Danger of a Single Story" throughline that pops up so often throughou the year.

    I am looking forward to trying the closed campus Sourcing Introduction activity in a couple of weeks. I am a big believer in rolling out new skills with a non-history example! I actually steered clear of this one because it was quite a hot topic when our school moved to a closed campus, but I am hoping that the dust has settled enough to have a good conversation around source analysis now Slight smile

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  • I think that teaching with primary sources goes a long way toward supporting the "Danger of a Single Story" throughline that pops up so often throughou the year.

    I am looking forward to trying the closed campus Sourcing Introduction activity in a couple of weeks. I am a big believer in rolling out new skills with a non-history example! I actually steered clear of this one because it was quite a hot topic when our school moved to a closed campus, but I am hoping that the dust has settled enough to have a good conversation around source analysis now Slight smile

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