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| Sources Online Lesson
Actual times taken for this activity will vary depending upon each pupil's ability. On each page there is a link back to the explanation page if pupil's need further explanation. The times given in this lesson plan are the times taken for a pupil of average ability to complete each task.
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| Learning Outcome | To understand the meaning of the historical
terms - Primary and Secondary Source and to be able to differentiate
between the two.
To know that an historian asks questions - when, why, what, where, how, who - to discover information from a source. To discover what historical information can be learnt from a painting. |
| Skills Developed | Chronology and historical terms; Knowledge and Understanding; Communication; Interpretation of sources |
| Time | |
| 6 minutes | Introduce topic ( this may have been done in the
classroom)
Recap Health and Safety guidelines for IT room. Pupils to 'log on' and find beginning of lesson - http://www.historyonthenet.com/Lessons/sources/sourcesmain.htm or www.historyonthenet.com click on 'Resources', 'Online Lessons', 'Sources Lesson'. Remind pupils to read instructions carefully and to ask for help if they do not understand. When ready, click on 'Begin Lesson'.
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| 3 minutes | Pupils to read explanation page. This could be done as a class activity with pupils suggesting actual sources possibly for the time period that they are studying. |
| 5 minutes | Pupils to work through exercise deciding whether a source is a Primary or a Secondary Source. |
| 5 minutes | Pupils move on to an explanation of the questions that an historian might ask of a Primary or Secondary Source. |
| 6 minutes | To check understanding, pupils are given a
picture of a steward's jacket recovered from the Titanic and a little
background information.
They then have to answer five true/false questions and five multiple choice questions about the source. |
| 6 minutes |
To clarify the value of using sources to give information about the
past, pupils are shown a painting, When did you last see your father, by
W.F. Yeames.
Clicking on people and objects in the picture will take the pupil to further explanation. |
| 24 minutes | Pupils to write the story of the picture
using the evidence they have found out.
Other pages on this site that contain illustrations of primary and secondary sources and may be used for further source work are: The Gunpowder Plot; and Elizabeth - Portrait of a Queen Pupils could be allowed to play some of the history games on this site. Further historical research or source work could be done using the pages on this site or from the A-Z of History. |
| 5 minutes | Pupils to log off and leave the room clean and tidy |
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