Seeking history : teaching with primary sources in grades 4 to 6 /

includes bibliographical references and index.

"Primary sources are real stuff and real stuff is powerful stuff. Civil War photographs. E. B. White's drafts for Charlotte's Web. An heirloom quilt. Birth certificates. All evoke actual past times and events. And no matter how well written, no textbook can provide the same sense of being there, of the realness that primary sources provide. They help us as nothing else does to begin to understand the past." "Seeking History is one of the first books about using primary sources in elementary and middle school classrooms to enhance and deepen students' grapplings with history. You'll read about students working as scholars as they tussle with old language and spelling in a three-hundred-year-old journal...compare their own photographs with others taken in 1904 and 1975...view an early film to see what it can tell them about early twentieth-century immigrants...examine household objects to determine what life was like long ago. And they do even more, taking what they've discovered to create interpretations of their own. These students use primary sources as historians, literary scholars, artists, writers, and more. Primary sources enrich every facet of their learning."--BOOK JACKET.