Primary Sources to Enhance History
Take a seat, stay awhile...
Welcome to "Course Name Undecided" and hope you enjoy this course. My name is Patrick Best, and other than this introduction my name will serve no purpose for the remainder of this course. Hopefully you will find that this course is created for you. It is designed for the instructors, educators, and people, like yourself, that have decided to improve their classrooms around the use of primary sources. Namely a variety of maps and different speeches throughout history. All in all, this course is to enhance not only the ones looking at this course, but the classes and students it can be used for. So as the title says; take a seat, stay awhile, and take away something new.
Course Objectives
When you reach the end of the yellow brick road that is this course, you will find yourself able to create lessons around the use of Speeches and other primary sources. While also being able to enhance lessons with the use of these endless resources we have obtained from History. Each lesson builds upon each other, yet it is at your discretion of the order. While they all build on each other, the lessons are their own with their own goals and objectives.
By the end of the lessons you will be able to:
- Identify the importance and benefits of Speeches as documents in teaching History.
- Compare and Contrast between Primary/Secondary Sources and how analyzing each type in the classroom can benefit your students.
- Use these sources to create lessons of inquiry and student engagement.
- Create a lesson in which the students show their abilities while giving them control of the final product.''
Prerequisites - Prior Needs
When it comes to this course, there are not many limiting factors for any who wish to participate.
The main thing is for one to know the actual definition of primary sources and secondary sources.
Primary Sources-original documents and objects which were created at the time.
Secondary Sources-accounts or analysis of events created by someone without firsthand experience.
Another aspect that would be detrimental to this course is the skills of basic computer navigation. If a font of lettering is in another color, most likely it is a link to another aspect of the course. Some of these links may be necessary to complete the lesson and some are there for added resources at your disposal.
Outline of What is to Come
Each lesson has been broken down into tasks to complete, that lead into a final product or lesson.
Lesson 2: To be Primary or to be Secondary? - Analyzing Primary Sources
Lesson 3: Inquiry, Student Engagement, & Primary Sources
Lesson 4: Build-A-Project - Student Control'''
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