Tutti Jackson, Project CuratorOhio Historical Societytjackson@ohiohistory.org

Making Collections Come to Life

How we do it and how you can do it too

Why?

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Purpose To model the use of primary source

material for classroom applications To connect our collections with real world

classroom instruction To make meaningful connections with our

most important constituents History Teachers!

What Do Teachers Want? Pre-Packaged (Lesson Plans!)

Easily Adaptable to Classroom Ready to Assemble (Worksheet, Vocab

List, Instructions, Bibliography, etc. Easily Accessible and Free or Cheap Graphic

Examples: Photographs, Maps, Posters… Local Connections to National History Authoritative Related to What They Actually Teach!

This May Happen! WWII posterOhio Historical Society

Available online at OhioPix

What Teachers Actually Teach

John Brown [graphic], Ohio Historical SocietyAvailable online at OhioPix

Ohio Academic Content Standards Example: History 6-8

Benchmark G: Analyze the causes and consequences of the American Civil War

Grade 8, GLI 9: Explain causes of the Civil War with emphasis on: e. The abolitionist movement and the roles of Frederick Douglas and John Brown

Where Can You Find Them?

Available on Ohio Department of Education website: ODE Ohio's Current Social Studies Academic

Content Standards (2002) ODE Social Studies Revised Academic Conte

nt Standards (2010)

http://www.ode.state.oh.us/

Here’s How We Do It, Folks

1. Instructional PowerPoint2. Collections (Actual or Facsimile) to Go3. Develop an Activity4. Include All the Materials Needed

(Activity Sheets, Links to Online Resources, etc.)

5. Link to the Standards!6. Give it Away

And you can do it, too!

1. Instructional PowerPoint Great Teaching Tool!

Provide Relevant Content and Background Outline the Activity and Steps Involved Provide Visuals and Links You Can Share and Teachers Can Use

1. Instructional PowerPoint

FREE Alternatives OpenOffice IMPRESS

Open Source Software Google docs Presentations

Advantage: Easy to share!

slideshare

2. Collections to Go

A. Actual Do you have collections that can travel

or be touched? Can you assemble a Teaching

Collection?

B. FacsimileCan you provide digital representations or reproductions of your collections?

2. Collections to Go - Actual Put Together a Teaching Collection

Relevant Cultural Artifacts That Illustrate or Explore a Particular Era or Story in American History

Tactile History People Respond to Objects

They Can Touch Can You Replicate

that Experience?

2. Collections to Go - Actual

Put Together a Teaching Collection EBAY!

And don’t overlook your local thrift stores and antique dealers!

Hopewell ArtifactsVirtual First Ohioans, Ohio Historical Society

2. Collections to Go - Facsimile Scan It and Print it Out!

Scan once at archival resolution, share forever

Ohio Memory Digital Projects Guidelines and FAQ (Scanning Specifications)

Don’t have a scanner? Take a digital photo and print it out!

Don’t have a printer? Take (or send) it to FedEx Office or Staples

Want it to last? Have it laminated!

2. Collections to Go - Facsimile

FREE Alternatives GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation

Program CutePDF Writer

3. Develop an Activity It’s not enough to just look

Active Learning

Develop the skills of Historians Analyze Synthesize Support an argument Project-based learning

21st Century Skills See Above

3. Develop an Activity Benchmark Activities with Other Institutions

Library of Congress: Collection Connections National Archives: Teaching with Documents Smithsonian NMAH: The Object of History Smithsonian Source National History Education Clearinghouse: TeachingHistory.org

Listen to Collections Example: Put Yourself

in the Picture

Ask your Teachers!Rick's Child Guidance Center Students Dressed up for Halloween

Ohio Historical Society, Available online at OhioPix

3. Develop an Activity

PS – It Can Be Fun!

4. Include All the Materials Instructions Primary Sources PowerPoint Activity Sheet Vocabulary List Etc.

4. Include All the Materials No matter how you package it (in a folder,

an envelope, online, in a suitcase to go), include everything that teachers will need to replicate the activity!

Civil War Case HistoryOhio Historical Society

5. Link to the Standards! The Academic Content Standards Guide

Teachers Through the Content They Need to Cover Throughout the School Year

If You Can Connect with the Standards, You Can Make Your Collections Valuable, Relevant and Useful to TeachersAnd Students!

6. Give it Away

Make all your hard work available for free or for cost Put It on Your Website or Blog Burn It on a Disc Make Packets and Have Then Ready to Go

ODE FOCUS! on Social Studieshttp://ohiossrc.org/ode_focus.php

Give It Away? Teachers are our most

loyal and vocal audience Add Value Constructive Feedback Improve Quality Gateway to New

Audiences Advocacy

Questions?

Thank You!