PETE+and+C,+2012

What is Authentic?
Four characteristics of Authentic Learning: 1. An activity that involves real-world problems and that mimics the work of professionals; the activity involves presentation of findings to audiences beyond the classroom. 2. Use of open-ended inquiry, thinking skills and metacognition. 3. Students engage in discourse and social learning in a community of learners. 4. Students direct their own learning in project work

Authentic Literacy - Buck Institute
Authentic Written Product Authentic Sources Meets a Real Need Student Inquiry Questions Shared with Recipient Critique by Expert or Recipient

Checklist for activity design
[|Authentic Learning for the 21st Century.pdf]- (downloadable pdf to research) (http://www.educause.edu/ELI/AuthenticLearningforthe21stCen/156769)
 * 1) Real-world relevance
 * 2) Ill-defined problem
 * 3) Sustained investigation
 * 4) Multiple sources and perspectives
 * 5) Collaboration
 * 6) Reflection (metacognition)
 * 7) Interdisciplinary perspective
 * 8) Integrated assessment
 * 9) Polished products
 * 10) Multiple interpretations and outcomes

Why?

 * Develops skills in identifying reliable information.
 * Develops skills in asking good questions.
 * Helps students work on long-term activities.
 * Builds from the familiar to the unfamiliar.
 * Crosses disciplines.
 * Develops good practice job skills.
 * A step to PBL

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Lincoln's Pockets Primary Source Sets Document Based Questions and Primary Sources
 * [|LP copy.ppt]
 * [|Lincolns-Pockets.pdf]
 * [|LP.key]

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[|The Reader copy.pdf] [|Analysis of Prints and Photographs copy.pdf]

More analysis tools from the LOC

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Identifying Differences and Similarities [|Immigrant_school.jpg] Online Venn Diagram

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Write a caption [|school.jpg]

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[|Coke Ads.pdf]

LOC Lesson Plans By Topic/Grade Level Searching LOC Advanced Google Search

IU 12 - Teaching With Primary Sources - Resources and Activities

The Girl On The Whaleship Dear Daddy Slave Narratives

Communication Activities
[|Books As Hooks.pdf] (document contains many teaching strategies for using primary sources) Library of Congress Book Festival Resources LOC Book Festival Author Podcasts National Jukebox Power of Photographs Poetry 180 Walt Whitman More Arts Collection Book Lover's Map
 * [|mrLincolnsWhiskers.pdf]
 * Grace Beddell
 * Lewis Hine
 * Dorothea Lange

Story Corps Veteran's History National Gallery of Writing Pecha Kucha The Purple Teapot

Global Awareness
Kiva (One Hen) Newseum - Today's Front Pages Places In The News Shout - environmental science
 * Historic American Newspapers

Math
Get The Math Gapminder for Teachers City Data

Misc. LOC
Library of Congress - TPS Quarterly, lesson plans for all grade levels Primary Sources and Elementary Students Architectural Drawings Everyday Mysteries America's Story Meet Amazing Americans

Misc.
Freedom Riders PBS Learning Media Center for Disease Control The Learning Network - NYTimes Education page