Primary Source Minute - TPS Consortium Created Materials

What is the Primary Source Minute?

Primary Source Minutes offer concise, actionable strategies from education experts within the Teaching with Primary Sources Consortium. Each strategy is paired with a short audio clip from the educator who uses it, explaining why the strategy is effective and why the primary source was chosen for the targeted student population. Explore the diverse ways primary sources can be used in your classroom with purposeful activities from the TPS Consortium.

Primary Source Minute – Primary Source Analysis Tool

Learn how to use the Primary Source Analysis Tool from the Library of Congress to analyze a political cartoon.

Primary Source Minute – See, Think, Wonder. Cut it!

Learn how James Oigara, assistant professor at the Ella Cline Shear School of Education, describes using Lewis Hine’s historical photographs from the Library of Congress

Primary Source Minute – Analyzing Historic Maps

Learn how Meghan Davisson, educator and curriculum developer with the Minnesota Historical Society, shares strategies for using historical maps in the classroom. https://youtu.be/5nnFfSO5MRM The Minnesota

Primary source minute - Historical newspaper analysis - Just One day

Primary Source Minute – Just One Day

Learn how Diana Laufenberg, Executive Director and Lead Teacher for Inquiry Schools, uses the front pages of historical newspapers from Chronicling America to help students

Is it a primary or secondary source? Primary Source Minute

Primary Source Minute – Is it a Primary Source or Secondary Source?

Learn how AnnMaria De Mars of 7 Generation Games distinguishes primary and secondary sources through the Lewis and Clark journals, statues, and other primary sources

Primary Source Minute – Teaching Data Literacy with the Slow Reveal

Learn how Tammy Shreiner, Associate Professor of History at Grand Valley State University, uses Library of Congress primary sources to teach data literacy.