Using primary sources provides a great resource to generate questions. (see links below)
Remember - it's a two way street when it come to questions - What questions are we (the teacher) asking the students? Consider these questions from Richard DuFour:
- What do we want the students to learn?
- How will we know when they learn it?
- What do we do when students struggle to learn?
The other side is the student - What questions are they asking? Are we developing their critical thinking skills? Are we helping them to learn to ask better questions??
Some questioning techniques to consider:
- 5W and an H
- Three Story Intellect
- Bloom's Taxonomy
- Kaplan's Depth and Complexity
Please share the questions you generated. Be sure to include a brief description of the primary source you used.
Daryl Cagle's Political Cartoons
George Eastman House Collections
4 comments:
The document that our team had was of women and children (immigrants) working in a canning factory. It was not clear what the women and children were canning. The questions we came up with are:
1) What are you doing?
2) When is this taking place?
3) What season?
4) Where are you at?
5) Is this a social event?
6) Why aren't the children in school?
7) Are there any men? What is their role at this event?
8) What country are you in?
9) How does this event impact society?
10) How does this event impact the economy?
Enjoy!! Happy Teaching!!!
From NPS
Hello! Our primary source contained a political cartoon along with a text entry, both concerning the current economic crisis. The text was informational, while the cartoon was, of course, slanted. We came up with these questions:
1. Who is/are the creators of these separate pieces? or are they related to one another?
2. Are the sources of information reliable sources?
3. What is the site author's affiliation with the topic? Is there one?
4. Where were each of these published, or were they published separately, or at different times?
5. What is the relationship between the cartoon and the text?
6. How does this relate to the current world economic situation?
7. How is this economically important?
8. To what other historical period might we relate these documents? In what ways can they be related?
Our primary source was a photograph taken in the early 1900's, of children doing hard labor. It took us a few minutes to figure out what the labor that was being done, but it looked as though they were separating coal, or doing something mining related. These were the questions that we came up with:
1. When exactly was this photo taken?
2. Where was this taken?
3. What is the childrens' task?
4. Who are these children?
5. What is their age range?
6. What are the people standing above them doing? What is their specific job?
7. Who took the picture?
8. Why was this picture taken? What was the purpose?
9. Are the children paid for their labor? How much?
10. What are their hours of work?
We enjoyed this activity. It allowed us to learn from each other about what we already knew of the topic.
See everyone in a few weeks!
- Cleveland Elementary School
Our primary source photograph was of a woman and children sitting around a table. The woman was working on a sewing machine, while the children appeared to working with suspenders. The questions we came up with were as follows:
1. When (or what year) was this picture taken?
2. What are they making?
3. Why are they making these?
4. Who is taking the picture?
5. How are they all related?
6. What is in the purse that is hanging on the wall?
7. Where are they at?
8. What will they do with this product?
9. What are the different jobs of the people around the table?
Thanks! The Belding School Team
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