Try these search strategies with your students:
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Search 1: by site Examples: <topic> site:.usda.gov. <topic> site:statueofliberty.org/ellis-island <topic> site:nps.gov |
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Search 2: by domain This tells the brower to search within a particular domain. Examples: <topic> site:.gov. <topic> site:.edu. <topic> site:.com. |
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Search 3: by keywords This searches your topic AND primary sources. or your topic AND lib guides. This is just another way of writing an AND search.
Examples: <topic> primary sources. <topic>lib guide |
NOTE:
The search string includes no spaces between the word “site” and the colon and the next word: “Cold War” site:loc.gov. If you use the space, you’ll still get results, but your browser will think that you want it to search the term “site” along with the others so it could skew slightly your results.
Teaching strategies can be applied to any content area, across all grade levels and assignments. The following are offered to jumpstart your thinking:
1. The Stanford History Education Group offers a wide range of teaching strategies you can implement tomorrow.
2. Use the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Analysis tool with any document, image or artifact.
3. Harvard's Project Zero offers the Circle of Viewpoints strategy - so useful in so many ways! Use a single document and ask students to look at it through many lenses; OR assign them a single viewpoint and then jump into a great discussion!
4. Teach question-building with the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) from the Right Question Institute.