2018 SOURCES Conference Program
(Download a pdf version with room assignments here)
8:00 – 9:00 am - Registration and Light Breakfast
(In Teaching Academy Lobby)
9:00- 9:50 am - General Session & Welcome
To Relish the Story: Reading and Writing with Primary Sources (Google Drive - PowerPoint)
Tina Heafner
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Vice-President of the National Council for the Social Studies
Stories are cognitively privileged, more likely to be remembered, and invite students into the content of primary sources. Stories generate a natural curiosity for reading and can be leveraged as a framework for writing. Teach students to relish the story to enhance learning with primary sources.
10:00- 10:50 am - Session I Presentations
Patriotism Through the American Flag as a Primary Source
Tammara Purdin
Lamarque Elementary School
Director of the Florida Council for History Education
Participants will examine primary sources and gain an understanding of the complexity and perspectives of history. The presenter will convey how to use these documents to develop historical thinking skills.
Eagle Eye Citizen: Exploring Civics, History, and Primary Sources
Sara Collini
George Mason University
Solve and create online challenges using Library of Congress sources, promote historical thinking skills and civic understanding, and integrate digital resources into the classroom with Eagle Eye Citizen.
Life Matters: A View of Child Labor in Mississippi
Child Labor in Mississippi and the Visual Discovery Strategy blog entry
Child Labor in Mississippi: Primary Source Handouts (abridged)
Paul Binford, Nicole Miller, and Kenneth Anthony
Mississippi State University
Attendees will participate in a (TCI) Visual Discovery lesson and learn the steps that invite students into the lives and hardships experienced by children over 100 years ago.
Using Local Crime and Delinquency as a Teaching Tool (https://youtu.be/zywZAzCZj0Y / PowerPoint)
Jeremiah Blaha
Colorado State University, Pueblo
In an interactive and engaging session, the presenter will address how a series of graffiti "tags" has led to an opportunity to engage students using newspaper cartoons and crime reports.
Teaching English Learners Using Primary Sources (Google Slides)
Rich Cairn
Collaborative for Educational Services (http://EmergingAmerica.org/TPS)
Social studies vocabulary and complex documents can be a challenge for English Learners. See ways that educators have used primary sources to help English Learners gain the literacy skills for success.
11:00- 11:50 am - Session II Presentations
Hollywood or History? An Inquiry-Based Strategy for Using Film to Teach about Primary Sources at the Elementary Level
(Link to PowerPoint)
Scott Roberts and Charles Elfer
Central Michigan University and Clayton State University
This session will focus on structured instructional strategies for K-5 teachers that incorporate the C3 Framework through an analysis of media (film) and primary source documents. Films, such as Pocahontas, Paul Bunyan, and Iron Jawed Angles, will be discussed.
DBQuest 2.0: iCivics' Hot New DBQ Tool ( PowerPoint / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2X43KoKXqg)
Emma Humphries
iCivics
Check out iCivics' newly-upgraded DBQuest tool, including its newest module, "Founding Preambles" and get a sneak peek at future modules.
Teaching African American History and the Ongoing Struggle for Civil Rights (Presentation)
Daniella Cook and Karen Gavigan
University of South Carolina
In this session, we use primary sources available through the Library of Congress to teach K-12 students in South Carolina about the historical contributions of African Americans and the ongoing struggle for Civil Rights as one way to combat bigotry and racism.
Benjamin Franklin: Sourcing the Legacy (PowerPoint)
Kacie Nadeau
University of South Florida
Benjamin Franklin's legacy is memorialized through documents and monuments. How were these perceptions shaped over the centuries? An examination of this history helps contextualize the man and the myth.
11:50– 1:10 pm - LUNCH – On Your Own
1:10- 2:00 pm - Session III Presentations
Using Photographs in Elementary Social Studies: Strategies that Promote Perspective Recognition (https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YW1kSThE8tgupptjBz05CSrdnvCXHYFsMrk7BLR2xkI/edit#slide=id.g3266054429_0_1)
Lisa Buchanan
University of North Carolina, Wilmington
This session explores the potential for using photographs to facilitate perspective recognition with young learners. Source topics include: cultural universals, human and civil rights, and immigration.
Primary Sources for All Learners: TPS Inquiry Kits (Handout)
Karla Thompson
Maryland Humanities (thinkport.org/tps)
The presentation will highlight the Thinkport – Teaching with Primary Sources website (www.thinkport.org/tps), which seeks to involve students of all interests and abilities, including special education students and English Language Learners, in primary source research.
Using LOC Classroom-Ready Lesson Plans to Develop AP Readiness
Ron Perkins
Calvary Christian High School
Improve student readiness for advanced coursework in history using Library of Congress’ classroom-ready lessons. Session includes sample lessons, demonstrations, and a lesson alignment index for the latest AP United States and AP World curriculum frameworks.
Contextualizing Equality: Founding Fathers and Founding Principles (Presentation)
Jennifer Jaso
Sarasota Middle School
Florida Council for History Education
The ideal of equality expressed in the Declaration of Independence established the unwillingness of the American colonists to settle for tyranny and oppression, as well as a petition for natural rights. While these truths appear to be self-evident, questions surface regarding whether the founders’ views of slavery support or contradict our founding principle that all men are created equal.
Visual Literacy: Analyzing Images
Melinda Staubs
Jacksonville State University
This presentation focuses on using different strategies to enhance visual literacy. Participants will take part in various strategies designed to enhance visual literacy of primary sources. Strategies discussed can be adapted for use in elementary grades through high school.
2:10- 3:00 pm - Session IV Presentations
Back to the Future: Investigating the Impact of Military Attacks on American Soil and the Reaction of American Citizens
Karon LeCompte, Brooke Blevins, and Kevin Magill
Baylor University
World War II is a topic of investigation in upper elementary classrooms. Participants will use historical documents to explore the attack on Pearl Harbor and America's changing role in global interactions.
Perspective Comparison Study Lesson on Slave Narratives in the North and South (PowerPoint)
Tammara Purdin
Lamarque Elementary School
Director of the Florida Council for History Education
This presentation will exemplify how to analyze a set of related primary sources to identify multiple perspectives and to engage students in learning and developing critical thinking skills.
Information Literacy (http://goo.gl/C8D2tZ)
Rachel Smith and Andre Olejack
Edgewater High School
The controversies over "fake news" have been dominating the real news, but how can we teach our students to be savvy consumers of information? Learn how your students can practice vital skills such as corroboration and identifying bias by analyzing primary sources on the Library of Congress website.
Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict and Peace Process
Dori Gerber
Institute for Curriculum Services (www.icsresources.org)
Connect the history and background of the Arab-Israeli conflict and peace process to the present through primary sources, teaching strategies, and classroom technology that support close, analytic reading, and evidence-based responses.
The Loyal Japanese-Americans at Manzanar: Using Dorothea Lange's and Ansel Adams's Photography to Teach About Intolerance (Resources)
Jay Shuttleworth- Long Island University, Brooklyn
What can Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams's photographs tell us about racial intolerance? Learn analytical approaches for incorporating their primary source images and media literacy. Lesson plans will be provided.
3:00- 3:20 pm - Refreshment Break- TA 130
3:20- 4:10 pm - Session V Presentations
Cherry Picking the Truth About George Washington: Good Manners, Bad Teeth, & A Powdered Ponytail (Google Slides)
Eric Groce
Appalachian State University
Persistent myths about the Father of Our Country (wooden teeth, chopping the cherry tree, wearing a wig) continue to exist in the public consciousness. Come and participate in this elementary grades lesson that explores multiple sources to dispel the misconceptions.
Interrogating Immigration: Using the Past to Investigate the Present (PowerPoint / pdf)
Brooke Blevins, Kevin Magill, and Karon LeCompte
Baylor University
Immigration is a persistent historical issue that continues to create controversy, exclusion, and confusion. In this presentation, participants will utilize historical documents to explore immigration issues in both the past and present.
The Experiment Called The Constitution (PowerPoint)
Carol LaVallee
Pine View School
Learn about the creation of the new nation through the personal notes of Hamilton, Washington, Jefferson, and more. Participants will read, analyze, and discover the personal side of Constitutional experiment through maps, diaries, newspapers, and governmental documents.
Teaching Folk & Popular Culture: Enriching World Cultural & AP Human Geography Courses with Classroom-Ready Lesson Plans
Ron Perkins
Calvary Christian School
High-interest classroom-ready LOC units on Culture & Folklife; build cultural, historical, and geographic literacy. Session includes sample lesson, handouts, and demonstrations of LOC teacher resources.
Teaching World History with Primary Sources
Danielle Kendrick
Seminole Science Charter School
The purpose of this presentation is to discuss historians' role in the development of K-12 curriculum and the use of primary sources from a historian and first year teacher.
(In Teaching Academy Lobby)
9:00- 9:50 am - General Session & Welcome
To Relish the Story: Reading and Writing with Primary Sources (Google Drive - PowerPoint)
Tina Heafner
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Vice-President of the National Council for the Social Studies
Stories are cognitively privileged, more likely to be remembered, and invite students into the content of primary sources. Stories generate a natural curiosity for reading and can be leveraged as a framework for writing. Teach students to relish the story to enhance learning with primary sources.
10:00- 10:50 am - Session I Presentations
Patriotism Through the American Flag as a Primary Source
Tammara Purdin
Lamarque Elementary School
Director of the Florida Council for History Education
Participants will examine primary sources and gain an understanding of the complexity and perspectives of history. The presenter will convey how to use these documents to develop historical thinking skills.
Eagle Eye Citizen: Exploring Civics, History, and Primary Sources
Sara Collini
George Mason University
Solve and create online challenges using Library of Congress sources, promote historical thinking skills and civic understanding, and integrate digital resources into the classroom with Eagle Eye Citizen.
Life Matters: A View of Child Labor in Mississippi
Child Labor in Mississippi and the Visual Discovery Strategy blog entry
Child Labor in Mississippi: Primary Source Handouts (abridged)
Paul Binford, Nicole Miller, and Kenneth Anthony
Mississippi State University
Attendees will participate in a (TCI) Visual Discovery lesson and learn the steps that invite students into the lives and hardships experienced by children over 100 years ago.
Using Local Crime and Delinquency as a Teaching Tool (https://youtu.be/zywZAzCZj0Y / PowerPoint)
Jeremiah Blaha
Colorado State University, Pueblo
In an interactive and engaging session, the presenter will address how a series of graffiti "tags" has led to an opportunity to engage students using newspaper cartoons and crime reports.
Teaching English Learners Using Primary Sources (Google Slides)
Rich Cairn
Collaborative for Educational Services (http://EmergingAmerica.org/TPS)
Social studies vocabulary and complex documents can be a challenge for English Learners. See ways that educators have used primary sources to help English Learners gain the literacy skills for success.
11:00- 11:50 am - Session II Presentations
Hollywood or History? An Inquiry-Based Strategy for Using Film to Teach about Primary Sources at the Elementary Level
(Link to PowerPoint)
Scott Roberts and Charles Elfer
Central Michigan University and Clayton State University
This session will focus on structured instructional strategies for K-5 teachers that incorporate the C3 Framework through an analysis of media (film) and primary source documents. Films, such as Pocahontas, Paul Bunyan, and Iron Jawed Angles, will be discussed.
DBQuest 2.0: iCivics' Hot New DBQ Tool ( PowerPoint / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2X43KoKXqg)
Emma Humphries
iCivics
Check out iCivics' newly-upgraded DBQuest tool, including its newest module, "Founding Preambles" and get a sneak peek at future modules.
Teaching African American History and the Ongoing Struggle for Civil Rights (Presentation)
Daniella Cook and Karen Gavigan
University of South Carolina
In this session, we use primary sources available through the Library of Congress to teach K-12 students in South Carolina about the historical contributions of African Americans and the ongoing struggle for Civil Rights as one way to combat bigotry and racism.
Benjamin Franklin: Sourcing the Legacy (PowerPoint)
Kacie Nadeau
University of South Florida
Benjamin Franklin's legacy is memorialized through documents and monuments. How were these perceptions shaped over the centuries? An examination of this history helps contextualize the man and the myth.
11:50– 1:10 pm - LUNCH – On Your Own
1:10- 2:00 pm - Session III Presentations
Using Photographs in Elementary Social Studies: Strategies that Promote Perspective Recognition (https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YW1kSThE8tgupptjBz05CSrdnvCXHYFsMrk7BLR2xkI/edit#slide=id.g3266054429_0_1)
Lisa Buchanan
University of North Carolina, Wilmington
This session explores the potential for using photographs to facilitate perspective recognition with young learners. Source topics include: cultural universals, human and civil rights, and immigration.
Primary Sources for All Learners: TPS Inquiry Kits (Handout)
Karla Thompson
Maryland Humanities (thinkport.org/tps)
The presentation will highlight the Thinkport – Teaching with Primary Sources website (www.thinkport.org/tps), which seeks to involve students of all interests and abilities, including special education students and English Language Learners, in primary source research.
Using LOC Classroom-Ready Lesson Plans to Develop AP Readiness
Ron Perkins
Calvary Christian High School
Improve student readiness for advanced coursework in history using Library of Congress’ classroom-ready lessons. Session includes sample lessons, demonstrations, and a lesson alignment index for the latest AP United States and AP World curriculum frameworks.
Contextualizing Equality: Founding Fathers and Founding Principles (Presentation)
Jennifer Jaso
Sarasota Middle School
Florida Council for History Education
The ideal of equality expressed in the Declaration of Independence established the unwillingness of the American colonists to settle for tyranny and oppression, as well as a petition for natural rights. While these truths appear to be self-evident, questions surface regarding whether the founders’ views of slavery support or contradict our founding principle that all men are created equal.
Visual Literacy: Analyzing Images
Melinda Staubs
Jacksonville State University
This presentation focuses on using different strategies to enhance visual literacy. Participants will take part in various strategies designed to enhance visual literacy of primary sources. Strategies discussed can be adapted for use in elementary grades through high school.
2:10- 3:00 pm - Session IV Presentations
Back to the Future: Investigating the Impact of Military Attacks on American Soil and the Reaction of American Citizens
Karon LeCompte, Brooke Blevins, and Kevin Magill
Baylor University
World War II is a topic of investigation in upper elementary classrooms. Participants will use historical documents to explore the attack on Pearl Harbor and America's changing role in global interactions.
Perspective Comparison Study Lesson on Slave Narratives in the North and South (PowerPoint)
Tammara Purdin
Lamarque Elementary School
Director of the Florida Council for History Education
This presentation will exemplify how to analyze a set of related primary sources to identify multiple perspectives and to engage students in learning and developing critical thinking skills.
Information Literacy (http://goo.gl/C8D2tZ)
Rachel Smith and Andre Olejack
Edgewater High School
The controversies over "fake news" have been dominating the real news, but how can we teach our students to be savvy consumers of information? Learn how your students can practice vital skills such as corroboration and identifying bias by analyzing primary sources on the Library of Congress website.
Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict and Peace Process
Dori Gerber
Institute for Curriculum Services (www.icsresources.org)
Connect the history and background of the Arab-Israeli conflict and peace process to the present through primary sources, teaching strategies, and classroom technology that support close, analytic reading, and evidence-based responses.
The Loyal Japanese-Americans at Manzanar: Using Dorothea Lange's and Ansel Adams's Photography to Teach About Intolerance (Resources)
Jay Shuttleworth- Long Island University, Brooklyn
What can Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams's photographs tell us about racial intolerance? Learn analytical approaches for incorporating their primary source images and media literacy. Lesson plans will be provided.
3:00- 3:20 pm - Refreshment Break- TA 130
3:20- 4:10 pm - Session V Presentations
Cherry Picking the Truth About George Washington: Good Manners, Bad Teeth, & A Powdered Ponytail (Google Slides)
Eric Groce
Appalachian State University
Persistent myths about the Father of Our Country (wooden teeth, chopping the cherry tree, wearing a wig) continue to exist in the public consciousness. Come and participate in this elementary grades lesson that explores multiple sources to dispel the misconceptions.
Interrogating Immigration: Using the Past to Investigate the Present (PowerPoint / pdf)
Brooke Blevins, Kevin Magill, and Karon LeCompte
Baylor University
Immigration is a persistent historical issue that continues to create controversy, exclusion, and confusion. In this presentation, participants will utilize historical documents to explore immigration issues in both the past and present.
The Experiment Called The Constitution (PowerPoint)
Carol LaVallee
Pine View School
Learn about the creation of the new nation through the personal notes of Hamilton, Washington, Jefferson, and more. Participants will read, analyze, and discover the personal side of Constitutional experiment through maps, diaries, newspapers, and governmental documents.
Teaching Folk & Popular Culture: Enriching World Cultural & AP Human Geography Courses with Classroom-Ready Lesson Plans
Ron Perkins
Calvary Christian School
High-interest classroom-ready LOC units on Culture & Folklife; build cultural, historical, and geographic literacy. Session includes sample lesson, handouts, and demonstrations of LOC teacher resources.
Teaching World History with Primary Sources
Danielle Kendrick
Seminole Science Charter School
The purpose of this presentation is to discuss historians' role in the development of K-12 curriculum and the use of primary sources from a historian and first year teacher.
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2016 SOURCES
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2015 SOURCES
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