Module 1
Archival Records
Overview
Do your students need a change?
Put this on the projector.
What could they learn?
Census book found in old store in Lewisville, Arkansas.
The number of archives on the web is impressive when you begin looking.
You can see a 1776 draft for A Declaration of Rights
or look at artifacts from the Battle of Guilford Courthouse during the Revolutionary War.
Teachers have an opportunity help students develop their
higher level thinking skills by allowing them to construct knowledge
through their own experiences with digital archives. Most teachers have not
experienced the potential of the Web for primary source material,
a new and ambitious environment where students gain understanding of themselves
and the world. What was once accessible only to scholars is now accessible
to anyone who has a desire to learn.
Through digital archiving on the Web,
learning from primary sources is now available to teachers, students, and the
whole wide world.
Read Evaluating Primary Sources and Evaluating Websites.
Take the Quiz to check your understanding of primary sources.
Outcomes
- The participant will review archival resources and describe possible uses.
Activities
Use this form to review the following resources. Choose one and describe at least three ways to use the primary sources in your curriculum. Start a journal of anecdotal records and record the ways you can use primary sources in your curriculum.
Sheet Music 1850 - 1920
Hmong Textiles collection.
Emergence of Advertising in America
Historical Census Collection
Related Reading
Grabe, M. & Grabe, M. (2001). Integrating Technology for Meaningful Learning (3rd ed.)(Ch. 6). Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.
Library of Congress, American Memory Historical Collections for the National Digital Library.
Warren, W. (1999). Using the World Wide Web for primary source research in high school History classes.
