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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:
Middle School/High School Teachers
$499.95 per participant
(includes one day professional development
workshop, 20 participants minimum)
Total Value of Materials Per Participant: $674.75
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Workshop Resources Include:
- Document Based Activities
for World History
- Strategic Reading in World History
- World History in Pictures Poster Set
- Analyzing Primary Sources Poster Kit
- Critical Thinking in History Poster Set
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Excerpt from Document-Based Activities on the Enlightenment
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Document-Based Activities for
World History: Using Primary
Sources and the Internet |
(Retail Price: $299.95) |
Designed to help students think as historians, these reproducible units employ a variety of primary source data available online (written, visual, audio/video, charts, statistics). In each lesson, students are presented with one or two primary sources; targeted questions then ask them to analyze, interpret, make inferences, form opinions, and shape arguments into narrative form. Each unit contains five activities, at least one of which involves opposing viewpoints or an examination of the motivations of the creator(s) of the source. A culminating activity focuses on broader themes to help students synthesize information from each of the unit’s activities. Clear objectives, teacher directions, extension activities, and assessment guidelines complete the package. Grades 6–12. Source list. Spiralbound. 8½" x 11". Social Studies School Service. Approximately 50 pages each. ©2001–2004.
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| Strategic Reading in World History |
(Retail Price: $59.95) |
Integrated curriculum kits provide a wide range of innovative ideas for connecting reading skills instruction with core content in world history. The kit includes:
- An extensive guide with teacher instructions and reproducible student handouts that offers techniques for helping students know and understand the purpose(s) for reading, determine the structure of different types of readings, effectively make connections between what they read and the existing background knowledge they have, draw inferences from readings, synthesize a variety of information from multiple sources, and monitor their own reading comprehension
- PowerPoint® slides that demonstrate important reading and learning techniques introduced in the teacher's guide
- A set of six 11" x 17" posters that illustrates key concepts students need to think about and remember when reading history
Grades 6–12. Social Studies School Service. ©2006
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Poster Images
Teacher's Guide
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World History in Pictures
Poster Set |
(Retail Price: 249.95) |
| Build primary source analysis skills and capture student attention through the power of visual imagery. Carefully selected in accordance with national history standards, the historic images (some black-and-white, but most in full color) are printed on sturdy 11" x 17" poster stock. Each set contains 6–8 images and is accompanied by a teacher's guide with background information, primary source interpretation exercises, and related Web resources. Social Studies School Service. ©2005.
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Medieval China
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Medieval Europe
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Shogun Japan
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Spread of Islam
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Renaissance Europe
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Reformation
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French Revolution
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Industrial Revolution
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Imperialism |
World War I |
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Analyzing Primary Sources
Poster Kit |
(Retail Price: $39.95)
Eight posters spell out basic methods and concepts in interpreting primary source documents, an accompanying CD-ROM PowerPoint lecture amplifies the points made by the posters, and reproducible activity sheets reinforce the eight principles by guiding students through analysis of online primary source documents. |
Poster Images
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| Poster titles include "Analyzing Primary Sources," "Primary Versus Secondary Sources," "Bias," "How to Analyze an Artifact," "How to Analyze a Political Cartoon," "How to Analyze a Text," and "How to Analyze a Historical Map." Grades 6–12. 17"h x 11"w. Social Studies School Service. ©2003. |
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| Critical Thinking in History Posters |
Poster Images
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(Retail Price: $24.95)
How do historians reconstruct the past? This set of posters outlines the process of thinking and questioning like a historian. Each Bloom-based poster describes a different level of inquiry and provides four example questions (two U.S. and two world history) that a historian might ask. 17"h x 11"w. Social Studies School Service. ©2004.
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