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Project-Based Learning, Vol. 3, No. 2, Spring 2010
This issue explores how teachers can use primary sources to enrich students’ project-based learning experiences.
More about this issue's theme
Primary Sources and Project-Based Learning
In this feature article, the author describes how to support a project-based learning experience with primary sources.
Research and Current Thinking
Summaries of and links to online resources-articles, research reports, Web sites, and white papers-that provide research and current thinking relating to the issue's theme.
Teacher Spotlight
Connie Lawson, a fourth grade teacher in South Pittsburgh, Tennessee, uses primary sources to enrich students’ project-based learning.
Learning Activity – Elementary Level
In this activity, students analyze their local community’s streets, buildings and other aspects of its “built environment” using a historic map. Intended to introduce a larger unit of study, the activity includes a variety of project-based learning extension ideas.
Learning Activity – Secondary Level
In this activity, students analyze sheet music and a variety of other immigration-themed primary sources. Intended to introduce a larger unit of study, the activity includes a variety of project-based learning extension ideas.
TPS Quarterly Archive
Previous issues of the Teaching With Primary Sources Quarterly are available through this archive.
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