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A skills-based workshop which offers teachers practical solutions to the challenges of reading, writing, and analyzing primary sources.
Suggested Curriculum Resource Package:
Elementary School Teachers
$499.95 per participant
(includes one day professional development
workshop, 20 participants minimum)
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Workshop Resources Include:
- Analyzing Visual Primary Sources for Elementary School
- Primary Source Readers
- Strategic Reading in U.S. History
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Teacher's Guide
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Analyzing Visual Primary Sources
for Elementary Grades |
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This lively and engaging PowerPoint® presentation helps teachers walk students step by step through the process of analyzing and interpreting period illustrations, political cartoons, photographs, and other types of visual primary sources. Introductory slides place each source in historical context; subsequent slides combine animations that break down each source into its constituent parts with guided discussion questions. Topics covered include colonial life, Native Americans, the French and Indian War, the Boston Massacre, ratifying the Constitution, slavery, frontier life, and immigration. Notes pages provide historical background and suggested interpretations of each source. Also comes with a set of 11" x 17" posters of the primary sources examined in the presentation. Grades 4–6. Social Studies School Service. ©2007.
PowerPoint® Presentation Poster Images
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| Primary Source Readers |
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These high-value resources contains 96 paperbacks (six copies each of 16 titles) plus 16 primary source transparencies, comprehensive teacher's guide, and teacher resource CD housed in a durable box. Books can be read independently or used in directed lessons with students needing more helpages. Titles are divided into 11 double-page sections of about 100 words. Glossary terms appear in boldface and hard words are respelled for easy pronunciation. Sections are generously illustrated with primary-source pictures, documents, artifacts, maps, and intriguing facts from history. Reading level: grade 3. Interest level: grades K–5. Indexes. Glossaries. Teacher Created Materials. 25 pages each. ©2004.
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Early America Kit Titles:
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Abigail Adams
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The American Revolution
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Benjamin Franklin
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Causes of the Revolution
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Christopher Columbus
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Constitution and Bill of Rights
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Declaration of Independence
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Early American Indian Tribes
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Early Congresses
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Exploring the New World
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George Washington
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John Jay
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Life in the Colonies
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Phillis Wheatley
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Pocahontas
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Thomas Jefferson
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Expanding and Preserving the Union Kit Titles:
- Abraham Lincoln
- American Indians in the 1800s
- Battles of the Civil War
- Civil War Is Coming
- Civil War Leaders
- Expanding the Nation
- Harriet Tubman
- James Madison
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Lewis and Clark
- Pioneer Trails
- Robert E. Lee
- Sitting Bull
- Slavery in America
- Ulysses S. Grant
- War of 1812
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The 16-book add-on pack has one copy of each title. The 208-page reproducible book weds primary sources with activities that strengthen reading fluency. Reading level: grade 3. Interest level: grades K–5. Indexes. Glossaries. Teacher Created Materials. 25 pages each. ©2004.
Choice of Early American Kit or Expanding and Preserving the Union Kit
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