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Sourcing Introduction Activity Confusion

Christopher Barber

Hey, everyone. I've recently started at a new school and, next semester, will have about 40 days in total to teach world history. My game plan is to roll with the WHP 1200 course and get as far into it as I can. Because of this, I've been going through the new/updated materials and was looking at the Sourcing Introduction today. I'm incredibly confused by the activity. It asks the students to read the documents and then pick "which document is the best fit for each of the first four sourcing categories". Considering the point of sourcing is to look at each source with these categories, splitting them up makes absolutely no sense. Looking in the teacher guide confirms this is what students are asked to do, however.

Any insight here on why this seems so counter to what sourcing actually is? Have I just missed something obvious? I don't see the same issue with later sourcing activities, where students are asked to actually source each document.

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  •  I can see what you are saying.  For my situation, I had my students look for what they thought was the best example of each one the "Happy" sources even though they all work for each source.  I just kept pushing my students to explain why they answered as they did.  Not a great answer I know.

  • in reply to Jim Jaeger

     My big concern is that I feel like a lot of kids will get the wrong lesson from the exercise. Do your students need any "re-teaching" of sourcing when they practice it later, or do they tend to get it pretty well?

    In either case, I feel inclined to introduce sourcing with the DIG/SHEG intro activity instead, then shift to WHP for later units. That carries its own issues of consistency, however.

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  • in reply to Jim Jaeger

     My big concern is that I feel like a lot of kids will get the wrong lesson from the exercise. Do your students need any "re-teaching" of sourcing when they practice it later, or do they tend to get it pretty well?

    In either case, I feel inclined to introduce sourcing with the DIG/SHEG intro activity instead, then shift to WHP for later units. That carries its own issues of consistency, however.

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