Unpuzzling history with primary sources

Recent advances in technology have created easy access for classroom teachers and students alike to a vast store of primary sources. This fact accompanied by the growing emphasis on primary documents through education reform movements has created a need for active approaches to learning from such so...

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Main Authors Clabough, Jeremiah (Author), Turner, Thomas N. (Author), Russell, William B. (Author), Waters, Stewart (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2016.
SeriesTeaching and learning social studies.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806610846
DOI10.1108/978-1-68123-288-1
Physical Description1 online resource (ix, 126 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Primary sources bring us face to face with history
  • Chapter 2. Primary sources: Preparing students to use their utility belts
  • Chapter 3. Inquiry: The new lifeblood of the social studies. Chapter 4. Primary sources and the technology gold rush
  • Chapter 5. Drama makes primary sources come alive
  • Chapter 6. Heroes, scholars, and statesmen: Primary sources and the quest for writing skills
  • Chapter 7. Music and film as primary sources
  • Chapter 8. Making the most of memorable spaces exploring local monuments and historic sites
  • Chapter 9. Citizenship, the reason that the social studies exists.