Class Instruction
These guidelines articulate the range of knowledge, skills, and abilities required to effectively use primary sources. While the primary audience for this document is librarians, archivists, teaching faculty, and others working with college and university students, the guidelines have been written to be sufficiently flexible for use in K-12 and in general public settings as well. The guidelines articulate crucial skills for navigating the complexity of primary sources and codify best practices for utilizing these materials.
Provides examples of active learning exercises with primary sources held in special collections, archives, and museums, focused on the one-shot session. The exercises include introductory sessions on primary source analysis and the research process, as well as more advanced sessions on building analytical skills, contextualizing and synthesizing sources, interpreting finding aids, and interrogating a source’s physicality.
A collection of case studies that focuses specifically on undergraduate students and highlights a wide variety of instructional models that provide important guides for teaching with primary sources, from one-shot sessions to longer programmatic interventions.
Teaching with Primary Sources describes the development of primary source literacy, but also offers practical, hands-on ideas to integrate primary source literacy into curricula.
Based on an award-winning project at Brooklyn Historical Society, TeachArchives.org shares articles and sample lessons plans for effectively integrating active learning and primary source material into your curriculum.