Introduction
History is a story told through letters, speeches, paintings, photographs, reports, and other primary sources. Fledgling historians need to develop research skills to identify relevant sources to support their studies and projects. In the internet age, we have greater access to primary sources than ever before. Through online archives and museums, you can access historical objects that are hundreds to thousands of miles away. Once you locate a primary source, you will need to have developed analytical and critical thinking skills to examine the source within the context of history and your research. The Gilded Age Immigrant - Primary Source Exploration Online Museum project will have you practice these important skills through three activities. These activities will have you use the internet as a research tool to find primary sources that support your investigation to answer historical prompts and questions. You will complete projects that will help you critically evaluate, compare, and analyze primary sources. Historians often collaborate with and learn from their academic peers during research projects. In this project, you will review your peers work and respond. This project will be completed in correlation with a three-day lesson on the experiences of immigrants during the Gilded Age, a time of extreme wealth for a few and excessive poverty for others, especially a growing immigrant class. You will examine three historical topics that relate to their experiences: the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, and the Haymarket Affair. Through these activities, you will apply historical knowledge to your personal identity and community. By doing so, you will learn how history is related and relevant to your current life. After each activity is completed you will save your completed project to a correlating Google Slides and it will become part of a virtual museum. The virtual museum will be posted on the school website to provide your peers an opportunity to learn from your projects.
Experiences of Gilded Age Immigrants Slideshow
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VCEnVD8GZDemrdakgs7VPFDnW45xusoU/view?usp=sharing
General Directions:
The activities for the lesson can be found on the RED and YELLOW slides of the Experiences of Gilded Age Immigrants slideshow that is hosted on Google Slides. The PURPLE slides will support the lesson's lecture. RED slides contain in class activities, and the YELLOW slides contain the main project activities. The RED slides are meant to prepare you for the activities on the YELLOW slide.
The RED slides will provide you with primary and secondary sources. On the RED slides, unless otherwise stated, you will use Google Slides' 'comment' feature to enter your responses. In some instances, you will be asked to respond to your peers' comments via this same feature.
The YELLOW slides will have you use the internet to find your own primary sources. The YELLOW slides will supply you with some websites (online university, museum, and government archives) to begin your research, but you are always encouraged to find your own resources! The YELLOW slides will ask you to complete a main activity that will be posted in the virtual museum. After completion, the activity will be posted on the Google Slide slideshow that is linked to the activity's slide. You will be asked to respond to your peers' projects via the 'comment' feature.
After all activities and completed and posted to the corresponding Google Slides, we will have a complete virtual museum featuring your projects! The virtual museum slideshows will be posted on this website under a separate post. You, your classmates, and other students will be able to browse these virtual museums. This will allow your peers to have opportunities to learn about the turn of the century immigrants, your identity, and the uses of primary sources!
Comments
Post a Comment