Using Primary Sources - Dateline: History - Analyzing and Interpreting Collections
Overview:
Divide students into small groups. Each group will examine their primary source materials and work with the appropriate activity sheet to prepare a short (3 paragraphs) newspaper article based on their materials.
List of Materials:
- Packet of Primary Source Materials for each group (see below)
- Dateline: History Activity Sheet: pdf file or Word document
- Vocabulary List: pdf file or Word document
- Franklin County, Ohio 1910 Map pdf file may be helpful for this activity. As printing large maps can be expensive, try printing the map on a transparency and projecting the image for the class.
- Pencils or pens
- Paper
Instructions:
- Print enough primary source material packets and activity sheets for each student or group.
- Divide the class into small cooperative groups and distribute the primary source, activity sheet and vocabulary list packets to each student or group.
- Explain to the students that they will become reporters who are going to write an article for the local newspaper. They will investigate their story by using primary source material to prepare their copy.
- Review the vocabulary list to familiarize the students with the terms used in journalism.
- Explain what a primary source is. Instruct the students to examine the primary source materials to draw inferences or conclusions for their article.
- Tell the students to work together to prepare their newspaper article. They should select a person to write the article.
- Set a time for the student groups to present their articles to the class.
- As an extension, the class might mock up a newspaper that would feature their articles, along with a masthead, advertisements, illustrations and cartoons.
Primary Source Materials:
These pages show the primary sources in more detail; including description, creator, creation place, and date for each source. For ease in application of the Dateline: History Activity, all sources have been converted into one PDF documents that will print one source per page (see below).
Group One: All Images pdf file
Buckeye Steel Castings Company Foundry Baseball Team
Buckeye Steel Castings Company Office Baseball Team
Buckeye Steel Facilities for Employees
Buckeye Steel Castings Company Bulletin Board
Buckeye Steel Castings Company Hospital
Casting Plant Went into Operation Newspaper Article
Group Two: All Images pdf file
Workers Outside the Buckeye Steel Plant
Buckeye Steel Castings Company Interior View
Casting Plant Went into Operation Newspaper Article
Buckeye Steel Castings Company
Buckeye Steel Castings Company Employee
Group Three: All Images pdf file
Buckeye Steel Castings Company Safety Poster
Buckeye Steel Castings Company
Workers Outside the Buckeye Steel Plant
Buckeye Steel Castings Company Employee
Buckeye Steel Castings Company Hospital
Buckeye Steel Castings Company Bulletin Board
Reading Class, Southside Industrial YMCA
Casting Plant Went into Operation Newspaper Article
Group Four: All Images pdf file
Samuel Prescott Bush Photograph
S.P. Bush becomes General Manager Newspaper Article
Buckeye Steel Castings Company Office Photograph
Buckeye Steel Scientific Management Letter
Railway and Engineering Review, World's Fair Edition
Casting Plant Went into Operation Newspaper Article
Group Five: All Images pdf file
Buckeye Steel Castings Company Brochure
YMCA Industrial Activities at Buckeye Steel Castings Brochure
Railway and Engineering Review, World's Fair Edition
Casting Plant Went into Operation Newspaper Article
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