The primary document study allows you to get to know someone who may or may not be alive today as well as an historical event. The primary source may be newspaper articles, historical documents, artwork, photos, etc...

You should:

1. Decide who you will study or what event you will study.

2. Be able to provide an argument about how studying that person or event is a part of social studies.

3. Identify sources you will use to collect data.

4. Collect data.

5. Analyze the information you have collected.

6. What have you learned about this person or event?

7. Decide how to present what you have found to our class.

8. Develop presentation.

9. Present.

Prepare an 1-page overview of your project that includes:

a) a description of your project and what you learned, b) how you could use this approach in teaching elementary social studies, c) how you chose your documents, d) how you collected the data, e) how you thought about analyzing the data, and f) what were you able to learn in the analysis of the data and what questions remained.

Document/Photo Analysis:

http://www.kdla.state.ky.us/links/histdoc.htm

http://lcweb.loc.gov/

http://www.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/photos/greatwar.htm

http://www.monticello.org/gettingword/GWtofc.html

http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/documents.html

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/mdbquery.html

http://w3.one.net/~mweiler/ushda/ushda.htm

http://w3.one.net/~mweiler/ushda/list.htm

http://www.iglobal.net/post19/download.html

Examples of Prospective Teacher Projects:

Menu Analysis