Books with title Using Primary Sources

Evidence-Based Inquiry Using Primary Sources, grade four, offers many opportunities for inquiry-based learning. This high-interest book is the perfect tool to increase reading comprehension. The primary sources, obtained from the Library of Congress, are photos of actual people, events, and symbols of another era. Accompanying text lends context to the photos and is offered at three readability levels to allow for differentiation. A final page in each section presents questions and prompts to encourage students to ask questions, look for answers, and make connections between the past and the present. Students will enjoy the primary source subjects, which range from the Gettysburg Address to a school for American Indians to a western frontier town. The Evidence-Based Inquiry Using Primary Sources series for grades 1 to 6 will engage students in a world of inquiry and discovery. Inquiry-based learning is active learning that elicits a higher level of reading comprehension. The pages of these books contain exciting and fascinating real-world photographs, advertising, recipe cards, theater programs, posters, letters, and maps, as well as other interesting items that document history. Each book highlights 15 primary sources across four pages each. The first three pages of each set present the same primary source with text that is differentiated for three reading levels. The last page of each set offers questions and prompts to encourage higher-level thinking and inquiry.

The Information Explorer Junior series provides readers with the tools they need to FIND, ORGANIZE and SHARE information clearly and effectively. Targeted at an earlier age range than our popular Information Explorer: Super Smart Information Series, this set will help younger readers become Information Explorers! Available in reinforced library and paperback bindings.

In this book, readers will learn how to identify and use primary sources. Carefully-leveled text and vibrant, full-color photographs help readers understand that an informed citizenship relies on the critical and responsible usage of media and information. Using Primary Sources features reading tips for teachers and parents, a table of contents, a Take Action! activity, compelling questions to encourage deeper inquiry, a glossary, and an index.

In this book, readers will learn how to identify and use primary sources. Carefully-leveled text and vibrant, full-color photographs help readers understand that an informed citizenship relies on the critical and responsible usage of media and information. Using Primary Sources features reading tips for teachers and parents, a table of contents, a Take Action! activity, compelling questions to encourage deeper inquiry, a glossary, and an index.

Developed by social studies specialists, this resource helps teachers turn classrooms into primary source learning environments. Using paintings, photographs, documents, public records and oral histories, this engaging book offers effective, cross-curricular strategies for integrating primary source materials. This teacher resource is aligned to state and national standards and supports college and career readiness.About Shell Education Rachelle Cracchiolo started the company with a friend and fellow teacher. Both were eager to share their ideas and passion for education with other classroom leaders. What began as a hobby, selling lesson plans to local stores, became a part-time job after a full day of teaching, and eventually blossomed into Teacher Created Materials. The story continued in 2004 with the launch of Shell Education and the introduction of professional resources and classroom application books designed to support Teacher Created Materials curriculum resources. Today, Teacher Created Materials and Shell Education are two of the most recognized names in educational publishing around the world.

The Texas Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in Texas. We have created a FREE Online Teacher’s Guide for Primary Sources to help you to teach primary sources more effectively and use creative strategies for integrating primary source materials into your classroom. This FREE Online Teacher's Guide for Primary Sources is 15 pages. It includes teacher tools, student handouts, and student worksheets. Click to download the FREE Online Teacher's Guide for Primary Sources.The Texas Primary Sources will help your students build common core skills including: • Analysis• Critical Thinking• Point of View• Compare and Contrast• Order of Events• And Much More! Perfect for gallery walks and literature circles! Great research and reference materials! The Texas Primary Sources are: 1. Texas Declaration of Independence – formal declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico during the Texas Revolution – 18362. Painting depicting the Fall of the Alamo – 18443. Portrait of General Antonio L"pez de Santa Anna – 18474. Photograph of Susanna Dickinson, survivor of the Battle of the Alamo – mid 1800s5. Print of Sam Houston, first President of the Republic of Texas – 18526. Map of the Texas coast showing points of occupation of expedition under Union Major General N. P. Banks – November 18637. Patent drawing for Joseph Glidden’s improvement to barbed wire – 18748. Photograph of Texas Rangers Company D, Realitos, Texas – 18879. Photograph of first major oil gusher at Spindletop Hill, Texas – January 10, 190110. Photograph of branding cattle, XIT Ranch, Texas – 190411. Replica of the petition from Minnie Fisher Cunningham of the Texas Woman Suffrage Association for the passage of the "Susan B. Anthony Amendment" - May 2, 191612. Photograph of soldiers at bayonet practice – Camp Bowie, Fort Wayne, Texas – 191813. Copy of Bessie Coleman’s aviation license – 192114. Photograph of cattle brands, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum – 193615. Photograph of Texas family heading to Arkansas during the Great Depression hoping to get work in the cotton fields – 193616. Replica of a sign in Taylor, Texas, warning farmers to use terrace farming – April 193917. Photograph of a factory worker at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant in Fort Worth, Texas – 194218. President George W. Bush waves to a rescue worker while touring the site of the World Trade Center terrorist attack in New York City – 200119. Photograph of the world’s largest offshore oil platform near Ingleside, Texas, used to tap huge oil and gas reserves in the Gulf of Mexico – 200520. Congressional Gold Medal awarded to heart surgeon Michael E. DeBakey – 2008Your students will: • think critically and analytically, interpret events, and question various perspectives of history. • participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations instead of memorizing facts and a writer’s interpretations. • integrate and evaluate information provided in diverse media formats to deepen their understanding of historical events. • experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience. Each primary resource is printed on sturdy 8.5" X 11" cardstock.

This resource helps any teacher turn the classroom into a primary sources learning environment. It explains the rationale behind using primary sources as an instructional tool, defines the various types of primary sources, and offers many strategies and activities for incorporating primary sources into your current curriculum, including cross-curricular ideas.

The Hawaii Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in Hawaii. We have created a FREE Online Teacher’s Guide for Primary Sources to help you to teach primary sources more effectively and use creative strategies for integrating primary source materials into your classroom. This FREE Online Teacher's Guide for Primary Sources is 15 pages. It includes teacher tools, student handouts, and student worksheets. Click to download the FREE Online Teacher's Guide for Primary Sources.The Hawaii Primary Sources will help your students build common core skills including: • Analysis• Critical Thinking• Point of View• Compare and Contrast• Order of Events• And Much More! Perfect for gallery walks and literature circles! Great research and reference materials! The 20 Hawaii Primary Sources are: • Portrait of Captain James Cook by Nathaniel Dance Holland – 1775• Painting of King Kalaniopuu greeting Captain Cook in 1781 – painted by John Webber, artist aboard Cook’s ship – 1783• Portrait of King Kamehameha I– circa 1820• Engraving of Christian missionary to Hawaii preaching in a kukui grove – 1841• Painting entitled View of the Honolulu Fort by Paul Emmert – 1853• Lithograph showing view of Honolulu from the harbor – 1854• Photograph of Provisional Government Cabinet including Sanford Dole (behind desk) – 1893• Photograph of Chinese immigrant family in Honolulu – 1893• Advertisement by Castle & Cooke Importers for a new knife to cut sugar cane – 1897• Photograph showing American flag being raised during annexation ceremony at Iolani Palace – 1898• Photograph of Japanese immigrant store in Honolulu – circa 1900• Copy of resolution of the Territory of Hawaii petitioning Congress to admit Hawaii as a state – 1903• Map of Hawaii – 1912• Photograph of workers loading sugar cane on carts in Hawaii – 1917• Photograph of Queen Liliuokalani – circa 1900• Copy of U.S. Navy dispatch announcing the attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor – Dec. 7, 1941• Copy of WWII war poster regarding the attack on Pearl Harbor – 1941• Photograph of King David Kalakaua – last reigning king of the Kingdom of Hawai’i - circa 1874• Political cartoon showing Uncle Sam in a classroom lecturing four students labeled as Philippines, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Cuba – 1899• Population density map of Hawaii – 2010Your students will: • think critically and analytically, interpret events, and question various perspectives of history. • participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations instead of memorizing facts and a writer’s interpretations. • integrate and evaluate information provided in diverse media formats to deepen their understanding of historical events. • experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience. Each primary resource is printed on sturdy 8.5" X 11" cardstock.