Level 1 -Foundation Program
Goal:
Participants are familiar with the breadth and organization of the Library of Congress' digital primary sources, understand their value in instruction and create basic inquiry-based learning experience.
Objectives:
Know what primary sources are and understand their value in teaching.
- Define primary sources and determine their value for teaching and learning.
Locate and navigate the Library of Congress website.
- Locate and navigate the Library of Congress website.
- Identify how each section of the LOC web site can be used for instructional purposes.
Access, save and present primary sources from the Library of Congress' website.
- Perform a variety of online search strategies.
- Find and save permanent URLs for primary sources.
- Cite sources properly.
- Develop a management system to organize individual primary source collections.
- Identify the different types of primary source material available on the LOC website.
Gain a foundational understanding of best instructional practices for teaching with primary sources.
- Use primary sources within different subjects.
- Review a learning experience using a checklist of components from the Learning Experience Template.
- Discuss how different types of primary sources can be used in curriculum.
- Review a Learning Experience using a Backward Design Curriculum Template
Create instructional sound learning experiences that integrate primary sources from the Library of Congress.
- Integrate primary source materials from the Library of Congress into an engaging standards-based learning experience.
- Prepare a 5-7 minute presentation covering the components of your lesson's framework.