Emporia State University's "Teaching with Primary Sources" Workshop Website
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| Teaching with Primary Sources Workshop (Day One) |
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| updated July 9, 2009 |
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| Amanda Mayhew presents her lesson plan on Ancient Mesopotamia. |
Thanks to a grant from the Midwest Center for Teaching with Primary Sources located at Illinois State University, sixteen social studies teachers were able to participate in a 3 1/2 day “Teaching with Primary Sources” workshop conducted by Darla Mallein, Associate Professor of Secondary Social Sciences Education at Emporia State University, and Sandra Hart, 8th grade Connect (technology) teacher at Emporia Middle School.
The workshop kicked off on Monday, June 22 at Red Rocks, the home of Pulitzer-prize winning newspaper editor and author William Allen White, located in Emporia, Kansas. After participating in the “What’s in Your Pocket” get-acquainted activity and a sorting activity on primary and secondary source conducted by Darla Mallein, the teachers enjoyed a lunch catered by Bobby D’s Barbecue. After lunch, site director Nick Gronseth took the teachers on a tour of Red Rocks during which the teachers were asked to note the many examples of primary sources located in the house. After the tour, the teachers worked in groups to complete concept maps on the different kinds of primary examples they saw in the house and examples of each. They also answered trivia questions about the house, its contents, and its many famous visitors such as Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, and Calvin Coolidge. Next Darla Mallein conducted a carousel brainstorming activity that asked the teachers to discuss the benefits and challenges of working with primary sources and examples of primary sources they had used successfully in their classrooms. The workshop concluded with a demonstration of the “Life in a Box” strategy that used primary sources from Theodore Roosevelt’s life as clues for the mystery person featured in the box. All of the teachers received six page facsimiles of the U.S. Constitution donated by Janice Romeiser in the Teachers College Resource Center/Instructional Materials Center.
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Emporia State University
Dr. Darla Mallein, Associate Professor of Secondar
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