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    Primary Sources in Elementary Education
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    When introducing young learners to primary sources, it's helpful to connect to their lived experiences. This set of images showing children in school can spark conversations about similarities and differences to their experience in school. Have students complete a "See Think Wonder" for one of the images, compare to a friend's image, draw a picture of their school experience and compare to an image, or complete a Venn diagram identifying similarities and differences between images. How can students see their lived experiences in these photographs?

    See this Primary Source Set on the Inquiry in the Upper Midwest website, and peruse other sets. Each set has Culturally Relevant Pedagogy context included, so check them out to learn about these sources through CRP lenses!

    Pre K - 2 3 - 5 Social Studies/History

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    [Freedmen's school, Edisto Island, S.C.] / Samuel A. Cooley, photographer, Savannah, Ga., Hilton Head, S.C., Beaufort, S.C.
    [Female students playing basketball in a gymnasium, Western High School, Washington, D.C.]
    Eskimo school children
    Playground, baseball, Madison School baseball, 5/20/1914
    Williams School - Brush, Colo. 7 children present out of 30 or 40 that are expected when beet work is over. It is Oct. 27, seven weeks after school opened. The school is well equipped, the teacher has a degree (A.B.) and one other teacher in this district (out of five rural teachers) also has the same degree. Salaries run from $65 to $75 a month, 9 mos. school. The tremendous loss of schooling in these Colorado schools seems all the more wasteful when we see the good facilities read for the children's use. Location: Brush, Colorado / Photo by Hine.
    School in Session - (Sunset school). (See Photo No. 18.) Location: [Pocahontas County]--Marey, West Virginia / Photo by L.W. Hine.
    Playground scene. Irwinville school, Georgia
    Five-cent hot lunches at the Woodville public school. Greene County, Georgia
    Washington, D.C. Science class in a Negro high school
    School children, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams.
    [African American and white school children on a school bus, riding from the suburbs to an inner city school, Charlotte, North Carolina]
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    Great sources! How will you have the kids analyze them? Any ideas?

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