These two readings helped give me an idea on how to approach teaching my students about primary and secondary sources; as well as analyzing sources based on where they come from and who wrote them. This is something that is crucial when teaching social studies to young students because, not only does it teach them to understand that there are different points of view in history, it helps create a habit of always questioning the source. In today’s world, there’s an increasing amount of information out there readily available at the palm of our students’ hands and teaching them to analyze their source before coming to an informed conclusion of the information they received is invaluable. It pushes them to form their own opinions on any topic or issue and coming to their own conclusions; rather than allowing someone to feed them information that may or may not accurate. Teaching students that they are “detectives” and they must solve mysteries of the past is such a great way to get them started and teach them what to look for when it comes to different sources. I also understand, now, that this can be taught to kids at a very young age with activities directed toward their age group. Everything is possible when teaching hard topics to young kids; it’s the delivery that changes whether it’ll be a successful approach or not. As teachers, kids already trust our judgement, what we want in the end is for them to learn to think for themselves and understand that the world is theirs.
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