social studies, what else are students learning when using eyewitness strategies?
Each of the six strategies incorporates not just reading and writing, but develops other skills and makes use of students’ “multiple intelligences.” For example, I put quite a lot of emphasis on the skill of drawing and learning from visual sources.Some students are really gifted at this and they need a place to shine.How to work as a member of a cooperative learning team, how to speak effectively in public, how to make a convincing argument, how to do Web-based research, all come into play.But above all else students learn how to write and how to enjoy it too. • Could you give us some examples of ways teachers might assess student learning from primary sources? Every chapter of Eyewitness concludes with assessment rubrics for the activities I assign.I also make use throughout of the Document Analysis Worksheets available for download on the Website of the National Archive’s Digital Classroom http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/index.html and The Learning Page from Ame
