October 24, 2020
9am – 3pm
Online
Teaching with Primary Sources Mississippi will host a free professional development event online on October, 24, 2020. This professional development will be hosted virtually. Participants will earn 0.6 CEUs. The CEUs will be FREE! You must be an elementary educator or teach gifted, secondary social studies, or secondary English Language Arts to participate.
Please see the program here. Session information and links to each session can be found in the program.
Teachers register here!
If you are currently a university student or intern, please register here.
Session Descriptions and Resources
Plenary Session – Welcome and Introduction
Welcome Fall 2020
Focusing on Historical Inquiry in the Elementary Grades
Dr. Ilene R. Berson and Dr. Michael J. Berson, University of South Florida
Discover KidCitizen, a free, innovative digital interactive funded by the Library of Congress that provides authentic, age appropriate learning experiences with primary sources. Based on research-informed practices and evidence-based pedagogy, children engage in historical inquiry and connect what they find with their daily lives.
A Complex History: Native American Boarding Schools and Football
Dr. Stephanie Lemley, Mississippi State University
In this session, participants will learn more about the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, the flagship Native American boarding school that was open from 1879-1918. Jim Thorpe, two time All American and a member of the Sac and Fox Nation in Oklahoma, attended this school. During the early 20th century, the Carlisle football team was a national football powerhouse. While it had a celebrated football program, the school remained controversial—the sole purpose was to assimilate Native Americans into white culture. Come explore primary sources and informational texts on the subject.
- Unstoppable Carlisle Indian School and Football Team[1] – Read-Only
- Undefeated Carlisle Indian School and Football-secondary
Curious Minds Want to Know: How Student Questions Can Drive Primary Source Learning
Ms. Sarah Westbrook, Right Question Institute
Questions are master keys that open doors to learning. Experience the Question Formulation Technique, a powerful strategy for teaching students to ask and work with their own questions. Collaborate, access open online resources, and leave with a concrete strategy you can immediately implement to engage all students with primary sources.
Cold War Civil Rights: The Intersection of the Global and the Local
Dr. Richard V. Damms, Mississippi State University
This talk investigates the connections between the Civil Rights struggle and the Cold War, focusing on the 1940s and 1950s, utilizing primary sources from the Truman and Eisenhower presidential libraries and other repositories.
Presentation Materials: Cold War Civil Rights The Intersection of the Global and the Local Dr Richard Damms
Farmers Without Land: Understanding Sharecropping in Mississippi History
Dr. James Giesen, Mississippi State University
This talk will demonstrate how primary sources like tenant farmer contracts, photographs, and oral histories can tell the story of sharecroppers and land renters in rural Mississippi in the first-half of the twentieth century.
Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh: The Treasures of World History
Dr. Julia Osman, Mississippi State University
In this presentation, Dr. Osman will share some content from her World History before 1500 course, and discuss some of the challenges of teaching World History and how to meet them.
- Lecture 16 – Meso American Empires
- Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh
- Africa
- Africa Chapter Images <coming soon>
Digital and Project Based Learning with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Mr. Al Wheat, Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Director of Education Al Wheat will introduce educators to various resources MDAH has created for a digital learning environment, as well as the project-based learning initiatives of the department.
Using the Explanation Game to Engage Students with Primary Sources
Dr. Kenneth Anthony
Teaching with Primary Sources Mississippi is a program that helps teachers locate, integrate, and teach with primary sources. This session will highlight the Explanation Game, a strategy you can integrate into your classroom.
Explanation game for TPS MS Fall event oct 24
Technology Tools to Leverage Teaching with Primary Sources
Dr. Nicole Miller
This session will provide participants with information about a series of technology tools that can be used when teaching and learning with primary sources (or other content as well). Participants will vote in a poll which strategies to explore in a little more depth. All participants will explore two lessons leveraging primary sources and augmented and virtual reality.
Visual Discovery: A Pedagogical Tool to Effectively Use Primary Sources in World History
Dr. Paul Binford
Participants will analyze a Stalinist propaganda poster (from the 1930s) through the Visual Discovery (TCI) strategy. Then, they will read an excerpt from a Young Adult Non-Fiction text, which enriches students’ understanding of the Soviet Union. This session will also offer a quick survey of digital resources on this topic. Finally, participants will learn about a pedagogical step, which helps students synthesize information from the visual and textual sources while being actively engaged with the sources.
Mississippi Geographic Association
Cathy Lee