Strategies for Engaging Students With Primary Sources
This workshop details how primary source materials help students learn more than just facts and figures. It also shows how students can gain insight into the interpersonal relationships and roles that people performed. This workshop provides strategies that enables students to think critically about history and draw parallels to other significant historical events, even contemporary events.
Primary Sources
Primary source materials foster a deeper understanding of history and enable students to relate to historical events. This workshop explores how to find primary sources and use them in your classroom.
Thinking Differently
This workshop demonstrates strategies to help students examine primary sources and compare them against diverse sources that represent various points of view while confronting the complexity of the past.
Websites
Countless primary resources such as maps, manuscripts, newspapers, prints, pictures, films, and audio recordings, have been digitally preserved and are freely accessible for teachers and students.
Instructional Strategies
This workshop will provide teachers with a variety of methods to combine educational technologies and primary sources into their instruction in ways that are focused on the needs of their students.
WHO WE ARE?
We have been giving private, group and virtual tours of the Gettysburg battlefield for years. While we are not Licensed Battlefield Guides, we are able to provide you with high-quality tours for your group or classroom. Rather than focusing on a lot of “boring history” our virtual field trips bring an overview the battle mixed with primary sources and intriguing stories from the actual participants.
Looking for something else?
For over 15 years, Teaching the Civil War has been providing professional development, lesson plans, resources, videos, tools, tips, and strategies for teaching the American Civil War. Our nationally recognized speakers can work with your teachers to provide them with the tools necessary to help their students become tradigital historians.
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Thinking Different About Social Studies
This keynote presentation provides insight into how to get kids to “Think Different” about history.
Tradigital
History
This workshop shows how to turn a traditional classroom into a tradigital history classroom where students become historians by interacting with digital primary sources.
COOL TOOLS FOR SOCIAL STUDIES
From apps to websites, this workshop presentation provides a plethora of useful tools for any teacher.
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