primary source thinking triangle

Teaching & Learning

Teaching Now: Scaffolding Primary Source Learning
June 5, 2014December 1, 2020

This is a guest post from George Mueller, a high school U.S. history and world studies teacher at Dunbar Vocational Academy in Chicago, Illinois. As part of the CPS Social Science Academy, we were tasked with developing and implementing a lesson using primary sources from the Library of Congress. The TPS-Barat Primary Source Nexus has so…

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Teaching & Learning

Teaching Now: Thinking Deeper with Primary Sources
May 22, 2014June 20, 2022

This is a guest post from Ruth Ferris, an elementary school librarian from Billings, Montana, and a grantee in the TPS Regional Grant Program. I originally learned about the TPS-Barat Primary Source Thinking Triangle through Martha Kohl of the Montana Historical Society. I loved it! I work with K-6 students and many of them struggle academically so I am always looking…

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