Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: December 19, 2011
This class changed my teaching forever. It was powerful! Congratulations to science teacher Stacey Balbach who will be speaking about Primary Sources Science at the National Science Teachers Convention in March 2012. Way to go! When she was a student in Teaching With Primary Sources, a Wisconsin science teacher discovered primary sources are not just [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: September 12, 2011
A university student’s eyes lit up when I said I taught a course for teachers on using primary sources in the classroom! I learned about them in high school; I’m glad I did; my university professors expect us to know how to find them and use them for research. I wish we had used them [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: August 21, 2011
A history teacher in Louisiana incorporated primary source photographs, newspapers, and maps into a lesson during the first week of school. Students were required to read Killer Angels, Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize winning account of the Battle of Gettysburg over the summer. She wrote: I allowed my first period class today to start the [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: November 23, 2010
The vet tech at a local vet clinic made my day! I stopped in to buy my Siamese cat a Treat. He asked if I used to work in the media center at the middle school. He said I helped him and his friend with their report about wolves; the Internet was new to the [...]
