Social Studies Skills K-3: Indicator #3

Students will demonstrate an understanding of historical and current events using chronological and spatial thinking; develop historical interpretations, and frame questions that include collecting and evaluating information from primary and secondary sources.

National Transportation Month Activities that teach the children to read maps, timetables for transportation, graphs and charts.  Several performance based activities http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson064.shtml

Students are always interested in Alexander Graham Bell and his work with inventing the telephone and hearing devices for the deaf.  The Library of Congress American Memory Collection provides original source and secondary source materials for students to research and investigate the many contributions of Bell.  This site gives ideas and information with suggestions for lessons but not actual lesson plans http://memory.loc.gov/learn/collections/agb/thinking.html

Another Library of Congress American Memory Collection contains actual recordings that students providing primary sources data about life in the US during the 1930’s can hear you “online”. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html

Using Primary Sources is a group of suggestions designed to help teachers use the source materials contained in the Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/primary.html

A lesson plan framework from the Library of Congress that helps you utilize primary sources http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/fw.html

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