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Katie,

I think your topic is great for teaching historical thinking with primary sources. Here are some loc.gov resources that I have found that may interest you.

https://www.loc.gov/search/?q=Amplifier+Poster+COVID-19&sp=1&st=gallery

And here is a 12th grade lesson created using one poster from that gallery as a QFT (Question Formulation TEchnique)lesson with a primary source as the Q Focus.

https://tpsteachersnetwork.org/the-question-formulation-technique-qft-for-primary-source-learning/gr-12-qft-lesson-plan-american-political-values-by-s-gleasondocx

When the pandemic first closed our schools and work places down, many TPS colleagues created inquiry lesson based on the 1918 Spanish Few pandemic. Check out this Teachers Blog that described one of those lesson:

https://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2021/01/science-literacy-and-history-comparing-masks-from-1918-and-today/

You will also find Covid 19 primary sources right here in the teachers network. At the top of my list is an album by Celia Roskin Teaching History Through COVID-19 and the 1918 Pandemic https://tpsteachersnetwork.org/tps-commons/1918-pandemic-content-spanish-flu

Celia, this is awesome!!! Thank you- these resources are going to be so helpful for my project! I appreciate your help!

Sources and more sources!

So. Many. Sources!

Thanks a lot. These resources will definitely help me for my assignments, if I choose to create an album on pandemics of the past.

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Katie, your album includes an impressive variety of primary sources related to COVID 19. As I scrolled through your album, I was delighted to see the different analysis strategies you suggested for the different sources. It was as if most of the strategies demonstrated in the TPS Leadership Institute were parading across my screen! You included the TPS Analysis Tool, the QFT, Thinking Like a Historian, and some of the LOC/TPS PD Activities adapted for student use. It was great to see you go beyond the searching and curating primary sources to thinking about how these would engage students in inquiry. Adding Teacher Notes to your album is a gift to all of us who lead inquiry activities. Thank you.

Thank you so much for your feedback! Please be in touch if you ever want to collaborate or have any questions :-)

Katherine Perrotta , thanks for taking my suggestion to turn your links to collections and exhibits in this unusual album into images. Albums with images just seem so engaging. They make me want to jump into the scene and get engaged! Let me send a shout out to Kile Clabaugh who sent me directions for doing just this. I'll repost them here for others who want to improve their album visual appeal and Network Clickability!

Notes from Kile:

I think this might be the best option:

Download to your computer the image you want to use for the PDF.
Upload the image to the Network album using the “Upload File” option.
Enter reference link, teaching notes, and reference note manually. Copy/paste in these fields usually work best if you paste without formatting.
Repeat for each pdf you want to link.

Keep in mind:

You can use the pdf link or the loc link as the reference link. I might suggest using the pdf link for the actual Reference Link, then in the Reference Notes you can mention the loc image.
Whatever URL you use for the Reference Link will be what is linked on the Shareable Album image.
You can edit/delete anything in the Reference Note and Reference Link boxes while editing an image in an album.
Unfortunately, you cannot add an image to a link in the Network.

The images really do add to the interest! This is going to be an interesting project.

What a great resource! I've added it to Primary Source Spotlight: Covid-19 Coronavirus Pandemic.

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