WLMA CBAs introduction

Classroom Based Assessments

Teacher Librarians are willing and able to assist students and teachers with the Washington State Social Studies Classroom Based Assessments ( CBAs). A statewide task force is providing common resources and strategies for student achievement. We provide presentations, ideas, pathfinders of common topics, and advice for teachers and schools. Thank you for using our materials and thank a Teacher Librarian if you are using these resources.

Primary Sources:

Primary Resources are artifacts, original or facsimiles of documents, maps, diaries and items from the historical time.
They are important to the new Social Studies EARLs and Assessments.

Library of Congress provides a learning site about primary sources.

Powerpoint Explanation of Primary and Secondary Sources
Marianne Hunter Timberline High School, North Thurston, Lacey, WA

National Archives – U.S. artifact analysis sheets and lessons for primary periods

American Memory- Library of Congress - digital artifacts with teacher lessons and help

Washington State Historical Society tools of the trade

Examples of Primary Sources Website with teaching ideas

Web sites that show the power of using primary resources include:

Martha Ballard Diary- 27 years dohistory.org site with teaching tools such as the magnifier/translator that shows the original; script and changes it to today's font. Student can even try their own interpretation of the original script this is a diary from colonial America for secondary students.
Diary of Opal Whiteley- young girl in Oregon at the turn of the century- The site has teacher's guides, timeline and more resources for a quality unit about the Oregon pioneers for upper elementary and middle school.

Teacher Librarians have compiles Lists of Primary Sources Sites

Wenatchee’s list of primary sources http://pio.wsd.wednet.edu/library/primarysources.html

Joyce Valenza’s primary sources http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/%7Espjvweb/primary.html

Museums

Washington State Capitol and others http://www.wshs.org/wscm/schools.htm

Digital Archive Collections

National Archives http://www.archives.gov/education/index.html

Regional Archives – Pacific Alaska in Seattle http://www.archives.gov/pacific-alaska/seattle/education/
UW http://content.lib.washington.edu/
WSU http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/digital/
NW Digital Archives http://nwda.wsulibs.wsu.edu/
National Archives video on Google http://video.google.com/nara.html

National Archives – Great Britain http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/

Washington Library Media Association CBAs

WLMA and Social Studies CBAs

OSPI Institutes

WLMA Presentations

Classroom Based Assessments

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