Using Primary Sources, Grade 4 (Evidence-Based Inquiry) - Tapa blanda

Inquiry-based learning is active learning that engages students in higher-level thinking. These books are full of opportunities for inquiry-based learning as students explore primary source documents. Primary sources provide eyewitness evidence of authentic events. The pages contain photographs of actual experiences, prints, maps, banners, posters, and advertising from about 1860 to 1930. The text provides context for the photographs but allows students to achieve higher levels of reading comprehension as they investigate the details of each primary source. Students are then asked to consider different points of view, to evaluate information, to draw conclusions, and to appreciate historical perspectives. Each activity supports standards-based learning by prompting students to use the primary sources and content-rich nonfiction to cite evidence and build knowledge.