Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in Government, Economics, and Contemporary World Issues (Libraries Unlimited Professional Guides in School Librarianship) - Hardcover

Shiveley, James M.; Vanfossen, Phillip J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0313312834 ISBN 13: 9780313312830

Verlag: Libraries Unlimited, 2001

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Book by Shiveley James M VanFossen Phillip J

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"This book provides secondary school teachers of the social sciences, politics and economics with topic-specific lesson plans aimed at using critical thinking techniques to analyse online primary source materials....The authors have created a practical manual for use by high school teachers. Recommended...for academic education libraries and professional teaching collections."-Canandian Library Association "Here is a great resource for teachers, students, and library media specialists, providing detailed techniques for using primary sources from the Internet in social studies, economics, political science, and world issues. This is an excellent professional resource for any public or school library that caters to the middle- or high-school student."-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin ?Here is a great resource for teachers, students, and library media specialists, providing detailed techniques for using primary sources from the Internet in social studies, economics, political science, and world issues. This is an excellent professional resource for any public or school library that caters to the middle- or high-school student.?-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin ?This book provides secondary school teachers of the social sciences, politics and economics with topic-specific lesson plans aimed at using critical thinking techniques to analyse online primary source materials....The authors have created a practical manual for use by high school teachers. Recommended...for academic education libraries and professional teaching collections.?-Canandian Library Association

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Teachers of political science, social studies, and economics, as well as school library media specialists, will find this resource invaluable for incorporating the Internet into their classroom lessons. Over 150 primary source Web sites are referenced and paired with questions and activities designed to encourage critical thinking skills. Completing the activities for the lessons in this book will allow students to evaluate the source of information, the content presented, and it usefulness in the context of their assignments. Along with each Web site, a summary of the site's contents identifies important primary source documents such as constitutions, treaties, speeches, court cases, statistics, and other official documents. The questions and activites invite the students to log on to the Web site, read the information presented, interact with the data, and analyze it critically to answer such questions as: Who created this document? Is the source reliable? How is the information useful and how does it relate to present-day circumstances? If I were in this situation, would I have responded the same way as the person in charge? Strengthening these critical thinking skills will help prepare students for both college and career in the 21st century.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Libraries Unlimited
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0313312834
• ISBN 13: 9780313312830
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272