2019 SOURCES Conference Program
8:30 – 9:00 am - Registration and Light Breakfast
(In Teaching Academy Lobby)
9:00- 9:50 am - General Session & Welcome
DBQuest: New Topic Modules, New PD, Same Effective Digital Tool (Presentation) (Handout)
Emma Humphries - iCivics
Showcasing access and functionality of the iCivics' digital primary source analysis tool DBQuest. Featuring the two NEW topic modules recently released on the Constitution and the Louisiana Purchase. Provide information about new (and free) professional development opportunities and on-demand resources
10:00- 10:50 am - Session I Presentations
Engaging Students in History Through Historical Fiction Paired With Primary Sources (Presentation)
Tammara Purdin- Florida Council for History Education
The intention of this session is to model lesson ideas using historical fiction, historical thinking, and primary sources to provide engaging cross-curricular lessons involving social studies and ELA.
Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict with Primary Sources (Link)
Dori Gerber- Institute for Curriculum Services
The Arab-Israeli conflict is in the news every day and understanding it is critical to being a global citizen. With an emphasis on primary sources, this session connects the history of the conflict to the current situation. Participants will develop content knowledge, experience student activities, and receive lesson plans.
Teaching African American History and the Ongoing Struggle for Civil Rights (Presentation)
Karen Gavigan and Daniella Cook - 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.
Who is to Blame for the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008?
Michael Stoll - William Jewell College
This session explores evidence from the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and other sources and presents a forum-style teaching strategy for understanding the roles of key constituencies in the most complex economic event of our time.
Seeking the Seminole Indians (Handout) (Handout #2)
Laurie Boulden - Warner University
Florida has multiple sites that could be used to help students learn about the culture of Seminole Indians and Seminole Wars. This session provides opportunity to analyze and develop a learning experience.
11:00- 11:50 am - Session II Presentations
Portraits: Observe, Inquire and Infer -An Arts Integration Strategy
Stephanie Boynton– Lamarque Elementary School
This presentation demonstrates how portraits can be used to have student's observe, infer and inquire about a person's life. Then they are used to introduce informational text about that person.
Infuse C-SPAN's Video-Based Materials in Your Curriculum (Presentation)
Arren Swift and Jo Boggess Phillips - Seminole High School and Ripley High School
Learn about the features of C-SPAN Classroom's website and how to incorporate the free video-based resources into classroom activities including Bell Ringers, Lesson Plans, Constitution Clips, On This Day in History videos and more.
Strategies for Successful Socratic Seminars
Jennifer Johnson- University of South Florida
Participants will learn how to conduct a scaffolded, Socratic seminar using primary sources from the Library of Congress. Sample discussion guides with numerous strategies will be modeled and practiced.
Yellow Roses, Sashes and Signs: Voices of the Women's Suffrage Movement (Presentation)
Jennifer Jaso- Sarasota County Schools/Florida Council for History Education
Using historical thinking skills, participants will examine primary and secondary sources to analyze some of the lesser known voices of this reform movement. Evidence of honesty, courage, and responsibility offer a broader perspective and provide the opportunity to transform traditional discourse in history classrooms.
Deep Dive Docs to Develop Disciplinary Literacy (Presentation)
Tracy Newman and Jessica Webb- Pinellas County Schools
Using one document per week, participants will learn how to help students dive deeper into primary sources and look at them from a different historical thinking skill each day.
11:50– 1:10 pm - LUNCH – On Your Own
1:10- 2:00 pm - Session III Presentations
Engaging Students in the Past in Order to Prepare Citizens of the Future (Presentation)
Tammara Purdin and Carol LaVallee - Florida Council for History Education
Teachers have a duty to ensure their students understand how important civil liberties are to help our democratic republic stay intact. This presentation will assist teachers in fulfilling that duty.
Hollywood or History? An Inquiry-Based Strategy for Using Film and Primary Sources to Teach United States History (Presentation)
Scott Roberts - Central Michigan University
This session will focus on a structured instructional strategies for 6-12 teachers which incorporate the C3 Framework through an analysis of media (film) and historical documents. Films such as 12 Years a Slave, The Searchers, and Iron Jawed Angles will be discussed.
Using Primary Sources as Bellringers
Allison Sheridan -University of Central Florida
Many assessments students face in school include examples of primary sources in multiple forms. Using primary sources as bellringers or warm-ups helps students build the knowledge and confidence in the analysis process.
Primary Sources and Poetry
Bridget Morton- Mars Hill University
Poetry is often an abstract concept for students; make it concrete by activating background knowledge through primary sources. Engage students with poetry through the Question Formulation Technique and visual annotation strategies with primary sources.
Durable Learning Routines to Analyze Primary Sources
Aruna Patel and Rhonda Bondie - New Visions for Public Schools and Harvard University
Durable learning routines help students unpack primary sources while also supporting literacy skills. This workshop will cover two routine: Zoom In and Images Draw You in.
2:10- 3:00 pm - Session IV Presentations
Engaging Young Children in an Exploration of Inquiry-Based Primary Source Instruction with KidCitizen
Ilene Berson and Michael Berson - University of South Florida
The presenters will discuss pedagogic approaches for the integration of KidCitizen into primary grade classroom instruction.
The Fort Sumter Crisis: Options and Decisions
Paul Binford- Mississippi State University
Participants will assume roles within Lincoln's Cabinet. Participants will analyze documents related to the Fort Sumter Crisis; they will determine the options for crisis resolution and, then, make a decision.
The Recollections of Belle Butler and A Birthday Cake for George Washington (Link to materials)
Jay Shuttleworth and Timothy Patterson- Long Island University, Brooklyn and Temple University
Teaching about enslavement with the Slave Narrative Project and contemporary elementary-level literature. Strategies for how to teach about enslavement through the Library of Congress’ Slave Narrative Project and contemporary elementary-level literature.
Chronicling America With Voyant Text Mining Software (Presentation)
Victoria Elmwood- Loyola University New Orleans
This session presents the educational design for an American history project in which students research a perennial political issue to prepare and analyze a corpus of newspaper articles from a selected time period. Students learn about historiography firsthand while also getting experience with data cleaning and digital methods of textual interpretation.
The 14th Colony: The American Revolution's Best Kept Secret
Roger Smith- Flagler College
Rediscovering East Florida's pivotal role in the American Revolution through the utilization of primary documents and maps found in the Library of Congress and the British National Archives.
3:00- 3:20 pm - Refreshment Break- TA 130
3:20- 4:10 pm - Session V Presentations
Bimetallism Isn't a Metallica Album: U.S. History Standards and Economics
Rachel Smith - Edgewater High School
We will take a deep dive into economic concepts that can help us teach the Florida U.S. History standards, including populism and bimetallism, demobilization after World War I, and the Great Depression.
History of the Microscope and Microscopic Images: Engaging High School Biology Students Using Primary Sources (Lesson Plan) (Presentation)
Marietta Wright - Windermere Preparatory School
This lesson plan involves utilizing historical scientific primary sources to engage high school biology students in discovering the impacts of the microscope in modern biological fields.
Revealing Perspectives, Reforming through Activism (Presentation)
Sue Wise - Waynesburg University
The Circle of Viewpoints strategy, applied to Jacob Riis photographs, expands students' perceptions of poverty and its impact. Multiple perspectives are explored and leveraged, inspiring student activism and engagement.
Driving Into Jim Crow
Aruna Patel - New Visions for Public Schools
In 1936, an African American published the Negro Motorist Green Book. In this workshop, we will examine a series of teacher developed lesson plans around this invaluable primary source.
(In Teaching Academy Lobby)
9:00- 9:50 am - General Session & Welcome
DBQuest: New Topic Modules, New PD, Same Effective Digital Tool (Presentation) (Handout)
Emma Humphries - iCivics
Showcasing access and functionality of the iCivics' digital primary source analysis tool DBQuest. Featuring the two NEW topic modules recently released on the Constitution and the Louisiana Purchase. Provide information about new (and free) professional development opportunities and on-demand resources
10:00- 10:50 am - Session I Presentations
Engaging Students in History Through Historical Fiction Paired With Primary Sources (Presentation)
Tammara Purdin- Florida Council for History Education
The intention of this session is to model lesson ideas using historical fiction, historical thinking, and primary sources to provide engaging cross-curricular lessons involving social studies and ELA.
Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict with Primary Sources (Link)
Dori Gerber- Institute for Curriculum Services
The Arab-Israeli conflict is in the news every day and understanding it is critical to being a global citizen. With an emphasis on primary sources, this session connects the history of the conflict to the current situation. Participants will develop content knowledge, experience student activities, and receive lesson plans.
Teaching African American History and the Ongoing Struggle for Civil Rights (Presentation)
Karen Gavigan and Daniella Cook - 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.
Who is to Blame for the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008?
Michael Stoll - William Jewell College
This session explores evidence from the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and other sources and presents a forum-style teaching strategy for understanding the roles of key constituencies in the most complex economic event of our time.
Seeking the Seminole Indians (Handout) (Handout #2)
Laurie Boulden - Warner University
Florida has multiple sites that could be used to help students learn about the culture of Seminole Indians and Seminole Wars. This session provides opportunity to analyze and develop a learning experience.
11:00- 11:50 am - Session II Presentations
Portraits: Observe, Inquire and Infer -An Arts Integration Strategy
Stephanie Boynton– Lamarque Elementary School
This presentation demonstrates how portraits can be used to have student's observe, infer and inquire about a person's life. Then they are used to introduce informational text about that person.
Infuse C-SPAN's Video-Based Materials in Your Curriculum (Presentation)
Arren Swift and Jo Boggess Phillips - Seminole High School and Ripley High School
Learn about the features of C-SPAN Classroom's website and how to incorporate the free video-based resources into classroom activities including Bell Ringers, Lesson Plans, Constitution Clips, On This Day in History videos and more.
Strategies for Successful Socratic Seminars
Jennifer Johnson- University of South Florida
Participants will learn how to conduct a scaffolded, Socratic seminar using primary sources from the Library of Congress. Sample discussion guides with numerous strategies will be modeled and practiced.
Yellow Roses, Sashes and Signs: Voices of the Women's Suffrage Movement (Presentation)
Jennifer Jaso- Sarasota County Schools/Florida Council for History Education
Using historical thinking skills, participants will examine primary and secondary sources to analyze some of the lesser known voices of this reform movement. Evidence of honesty, courage, and responsibility offer a broader perspective and provide the opportunity to transform traditional discourse in history classrooms.
Deep Dive Docs to Develop Disciplinary Literacy (Presentation)
Tracy Newman and Jessica Webb- Pinellas County Schools
Using one document per week, participants will learn how to help students dive deeper into primary sources and look at them from a different historical thinking skill each day.
11:50– 1:10 pm - LUNCH – On Your Own
1:10- 2:00 pm - Session III Presentations
Engaging Students in the Past in Order to Prepare Citizens of the Future (Presentation)
Tammara Purdin and Carol LaVallee - Florida Council for History Education
Teachers have a duty to ensure their students understand how important civil liberties are to help our democratic republic stay intact. This presentation will assist teachers in fulfilling that duty.
Hollywood or History? An Inquiry-Based Strategy for Using Film and Primary Sources to Teach United States History (Presentation)
Scott Roberts - Central Michigan University
This session will focus on a structured instructional strategies for 6-12 teachers which incorporate the C3 Framework through an analysis of media (film) and historical documents. Films such as 12 Years a Slave, The Searchers, and Iron Jawed Angles will be discussed.
Using Primary Sources as Bellringers
Allison Sheridan -University of Central Florida
Many assessments students face in school include examples of primary sources in multiple forms. Using primary sources as bellringers or warm-ups helps students build the knowledge and confidence in the analysis process.
Primary Sources and Poetry
Bridget Morton- Mars Hill University
Poetry is often an abstract concept for students; make it concrete by activating background knowledge through primary sources. Engage students with poetry through the Question Formulation Technique and visual annotation strategies with primary sources.
Durable Learning Routines to Analyze Primary Sources
Aruna Patel and Rhonda Bondie - New Visions for Public Schools and Harvard University
Durable learning routines help students unpack primary sources while also supporting literacy skills. This workshop will cover two routine: Zoom In and Images Draw You in.
2:10- 3:00 pm - Session IV Presentations
Engaging Young Children in an Exploration of Inquiry-Based Primary Source Instruction with KidCitizen
Ilene Berson and Michael Berson - University of South Florida
The presenters will discuss pedagogic approaches for the integration of KidCitizen into primary grade classroom instruction.
The Fort Sumter Crisis: Options and Decisions
Paul Binford- Mississippi State University
Participants will assume roles within Lincoln's Cabinet. Participants will analyze documents related to the Fort Sumter Crisis; they will determine the options for crisis resolution and, then, make a decision.
The Recollections of Belle Butler and A Birthday Cake for George Washington (Link to materials)
Jay Shuttleworth and Timothy Patterson- Long Island University, Brooklyn and Temple University
Teaching about enslavement with the Slave Narrative Project and contemporary elementary-level literature. Strategies for how to teach about enslavement through the Library of Congress’ Slave Narrative Project and contemporary elementary-level literature.
Chronicling America With Voyant Text Mining Software (Presentation)
Victoria Elmwood- Loyola University New Orleans
This session presents the educational design for an American history project in which students research a perennial political issue to prepare and analyze a corpus of newspaper articles from a selected time period. Students learn about historiography firsthand while also getting experience with data cleaning and digital methods of textual interpretation.
The 14th Colony: The American Revolution's Best Kept Secret
Roger Smith- Flagler College
Rediscovering East Florida's pivotal role in the American Revolution through the utilization of primary documents and maps found in the Library of Congress and the British National Archives.
3:00- 3:20 pm - Refreshment Break- TA 130
3:20- 4:10 pm - Session V Presentations
Bimetallism Isn't a Metallica Album: U.S. History Standards and Economics
Rachel Smith - Edgewater High School
We will take a deep dive into economic concepts that can help us teach the Florida U.S. History standards, including populism and bimetallism, demobilization after World War I, and the Great Depression.
History of the Microscope and Microscopic Images: Engaging High School Biology Students Using Primary Sources (Lesson Plan) (Presentation)
Marietta Wright - Windermere Preparatory School
This lesson plan involves utilizing historical scientific primary sources to engage high school biology students in discovering the impacts of the microscope in modern biological fields.
Revealing Perspectives, Reforming through Activism (Presentation)
Sue Wise - Waynesburg University
The Circle of Viewpoints strategy, applied to Jacob Riis photographs, expands students' perceptions of poverty and its impact. Multiple perspectives are explored and leveraged, inspiring student activism and engagement.
Driving Into Jim Crow
Aruna Patel - New Visions for Public Schools
In 1936, an African American published the Negro Motorist Green Book. In this workshop, we will examine a series of teacher developed lesson plans around this invaluable primary source.
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