This class will begin with a review of the learning activities designed by students in our last assignment. Next we will discuss critical components of a good learning activity.
Assignment 4
Students will develop and deliver a 20-25 min lesson in their assigned class
9/23 – Renee, Maddy, Jacquie, Cody
9/30 – Jose, Jarrett, Casey
Students should also do a blog post that previews the lesson – noting:
target audience
content (what will be studied)
process (what will you do – what will students do)
resources for lessons
About the lesson
The lesson should a historical thinking skills lesson. Specific content of lesson is up to you. If you can get the timing right, we can offer you feedback before you use it with your students.
This lesson should be delivered as if we were your class.
Your peers will serve as participant observers noting lesson content, nature of the student task, lesson delivery and student workflow.
Feel free to design a flipped lesson in advance and let the class know of your plans and required viewing.
If you have a significant amount of reading required, send it to us in advance.
After your delivery of the lesson go back and edit your post with synopsis of what you learned from our class feedback.
Our class begins with a review of the Sam Wineburg reading and TEDEd flipped lesson Who is the historian in your classroom? (That will also provide a chance to discuss the efficacy of flipping content. What are the challenges and opportunities for that approach?)
Today we begin our study of historical thinking skills based on the work of Sam Wineburg and the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG). We will focus on three key historical thinking skills – Sourcing, Contextualization, Corroboration. See Historical Thinking Chart (pdf in English and Spanish at SHEG).
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Today’s class will focus on finding and curating historical content – in this case images. Students will share their search tips for using our historical archive resources. Our focus will be on sourcing material that is in public domain.
Most materials are in the public domain if they were produced before 1923. I see this as roughly equivalent to everything that happened in the world up to and including World War I! If you’re looking for newspaper articles in Chronicling America, for example, you will note that coverage ends in 1922.
Primary sources produced by the federal government are normally in the public domain both before and after the magic copyright date of 1923. That explains why we as teachers can use the fabulous oral history interviews of former slaves collected between 1936 and 1938 by workers from the Federal Writers’ Project.
Task 1: Image detectives (inspired by Crop It lesson)
Being able to find and curate historical source material is a foundation of historical thinking. This activity merges three Instuctional goals: finding / curating historical sources, looking closely at historical sources and using WordPress tools to add images and hyperlinks. It will help students learn how to find material for future lesson design activities.
find 3 historical images
for each image: provide full image with citation in hyperlink back to source
then add a of crop area of each image to show one of the following clues (add clue in the image caption) Tips on how to crop an image
Put all content into a post. Give it a clever title. Include a featured image.
who or what this image is about.
where this takes place.
when this happened or was created.
what is the creator’s point of view or purpose.
something I have a question about
Example: Image with two crops
African American Soldiers in an Automobile SourceWhen? It’s an upside down 1919 NYS license plate. I think they are returning Black WWI soldiers in a parade.These Black soldiers are being honored in a parade. Knowing 1919 is in the Jim Crow / KKK era, I wonder what else faced them back in America?
In class practice images. Choose one. Add to a sample post. Include source hyperlink and crop with comment.
Smartly dressed couple seated on an 1886-model bicycle for two 1886. Source
The 8th Avenue trolley, NYC, sharing the street with horse-drawn produce wagon and an open automobile 1904 Source
Automobile helped through sandy wash onto mesa 1911. Source
Women’s Machine Gun Squad Police Reserves, New York City 1918 Source
Task 2: Introduction to historical thinking via SHEG
Task 1: Create a meme and create your first blog post – an elaboration / explanation of your meme. Be sure to do your post by August 29th.
Students should be sure their post includes a featured image (the meme) made using AdobeSpark. Use your meme from class or make a new one. Here’s some post prompts – feel free to use one or more for inspiration.
What makes for a good history teacher?
Why teach history?
What you see as your “models” for history teacher.
The challenges or opportunities of teaching history.
How were you taught history? Is that how you intend to teach?
Task 2: Students will be assigned one of the historical archive sites here. They will prepare a 5 minute introduction to the site to be presented to class on Sept 2. Presentation should include:
How to use search functions in site
How to download content
How to find metadata for citation and hyperlink.
Task 3: Before our 9/2 class, comment on at least 2 student posts. It’s a conversation, not simply a … “nice job.”
