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AER Newsletter: Summer 2019
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Welcome to the first, biannual Archival Educators Roundtable (AER) Newsletter! In 2016, the Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) brought together like-minded professionals who use primary sources for public programming, outreach, and education, and the AER was born. As archival education is a still-developing field, the AER created a community where people could share their successes, challenges, and works in progress through casual workshops.AER’s network of educators, archivists, and archival education allies has since expanded its culture of support beyond the biannual meetings here at the RAC through social media, event attendance, joint publications, and email correspondence.It is our hope that this AER Newsletter will further extend the table, so speak, reaching more colleagues as we spotlight educators, and showcase the projects, challenges, and successes of archival education. Just as the aim of AER meetings is to ensure that all perspectives on primary source education are honored, we encourage you, our dedicated AER audience, to reach out and contribute your insights to future AER Newsletters! Many thanks to our first issue's contributors--we couldn't have done it without you.--Marissa Vassari, Archivist and Educator, Rockefeller Archive CenterElizabeth Berkowitz, Outreach Program Manager, Rockefeller Archive Center

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Arts and Humanities
Education
Elementary Education
Higher Education
Information Science
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Activity/Lab
Case Study
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
The Rockefeller Archive Center
Date Added:
01/23/2020
The Cold War: Primary Source Workshop
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This workshop includes historical context, digitized primary sources, and follow-up discussion questions. Students are asked to make arguments for and against providing funding to programs and projects proposed to the Commonwealth Fund, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Ford Foundation. Taking on the role of program officers during the Cold War and working in small groups, students will read primary sources and articulate why a foundation should or should not provide funding to these proposed ideas. As a whole group, the studentswill participate in a debate as to which of the proposed ideas would be the most effective tool for furthering American Cold War interests. Students are encouraged to use this workshop as a springboard for further research into the role foundations played during the Cold War.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
English Language Arts
History
World History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Lesson Plan
Module
Primary Source
Reading
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
The Rockefeller Archive Center
Date Added:
05/02/2021
Educational Outreach Plan, UN Action, K-12
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 8th Grade Literacy Tutorial                                                                               Visual and Information Literacy: What roles do community and media play in times of crisis

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Political Science
Social Science
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
The Rockefeller Archive Center
Date Added:
06/03/2019
From Dream to Reality: Building the Hale Telescope: Primary Source STEAM Project
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The 200-inch Hale Telescope (historically known as the “Palomar Telescope”) at the Palomar Observatory in California represents an amazing feat of engineeringand ingenuity, the result of decades of trial and error.The primary sources in this project describe the last great hurdle in the Hale Telescope’s construction: successfully transporting the 40-ton, 200-inch mirror and its packing materials from upstate New York to the top of Palomar Mountain in southern California. This project is designed for advanced middle school or high school students. It contains a suggested project that puts students in the role of problem-solvers, with students using the actual data points drawn from the 1947 primary sources. Students will learn how to work with a formula, and to manipulate the formula’s variables to achieve different outcomes.

Subject:
Applied Science
Arts and Humanities
Education
Higher Education
Mathematics
Physical Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Module
Primary Source
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
The Rockefeller Archive Center
Date Added:
04/14/2021
How To Do Research Primary Source Unit
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This How To Do Research Unit Guide provides a lesson-to-lesson foundation for teaching:● What primary sources are● Real vs. fake information (evaluating sources)● Document analysis● Different ways to obtain information● How to formulate research questions● How to find answers to research questions● The hows and whys of citations (annotated bibliography)By the time students get to high school, they should have a basic understanding of how to effectively do research. Considering that there are so many steps involved in the research process, the earlier these necessary skills are taught, the more time students will be able to devote to theiractual projects. Moreover, in today’s world, information literacy needs to be achieved at an earlier age, so students can learn to be smart consumers, responsible sharers, and presenters of information. Throughout the research process, students will learn that there will be dead ends, questions that are too broad or too narrow, questions that do not have answers. This is an accurate reflection of what their experiences will continue to be as they move into higher level research projects in their educational careers. 

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Education
Elementary Education
English Language Arts
History
Information Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Full Course
Homework/Assignment
Primary Source
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Unit of Study
Author:
The Rockefeller Archive Center
Date Added:
12/05/2019
Media Literacy: Voter Education
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This series of videos is part of the RAC’s educational programming. These videos include audiovisual primary sources, and are designed to be part of a media literacy curriculum.The clips of audiovisual documents serve as primary sources that can be viewed, analyzed, and discussed in a classroom setting to help students build media literacy skills.

Subject:
Elementary Education
English Language Arts
Gender and Sexuality Studies
History
Information Science
Speaking and Listening
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Lesson
Lesson Plan
Module
Primary Source
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
The Rockefeller Archive Center
Date Added:
12/16/2019
Refugee Scholars Primary Source Workshop
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The workshop asks students to consider what foundations can do in times of global crisis by placing them in the role of Rockefeller Foundation (RF) program officers during World War II. As were the real program officers, students will be tasked with selecting a limited number of scholar applicants for aid in a life-threatening situation. Working in groups, students will read documents related to ten scholars who represent a variety of nationalities, backgrounds, and scholarly disciplines. Students will then select four candidates, and must be prepared to articulate the reasoning behind theirdecisions. This exercise enables students to imagine and grapple with the difficult choices RF officials had to make in one historical example of how foundation philanthropy has responded to humanitarian crisis. Students are encouraged to use this exercise as a springboard for further research into current scholar rescue initiatives, and/or policies and practices pertaining to refugees today.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Education
English Language Arts
History
Information Science
U.S. History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lecture
Lesson
Lesson Plan
Primary Source
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
The Rockefeller Archive Center
Date Added:
01/06/2020
Tenements and Immigration Primary Source Set
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The primary sources in this set can be used for inquiry-based learning exercises and projects. Each document falls under the umbrella topic of tenements and immigration, and students are encouraged to annotate in the margins in order to support the development of document analysis and critical thinking skills. Suggested projects that make use of this set’s primary sources are also included for the educator as a springboard for research-based projects.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Education
Elementary Education
English Language Arts
Information Science
U.S. History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Primary Source
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
The Rockefeller Archive Center
Date Added:
06/03/2019
Voter Education Primary Source Set
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Table of Contents:3. How To Use This Primary Source Set4. Historical Context7. Document Guide8. Primary Sources21. Guided Questions22. Primary Source Projects24. About Us

Subject:
Education
Elementary Education
English Language Arts
History
Information Science
Reading Informational Text
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Lesson
Primary Source
Author:
The Rockefeller Archive Center
Date Added:
01/06/2020
The War of the Worlds, Fake News, and Media Literacy Primary Source Unit
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The following unit offers multiple entry points into developing an understanding of media literacy. The unit framework and primary sources can be integrated into classrooms of grades 4-12. Each lesson has student objectives that can be accomplished within 40 minute periods over the course of several weeks. A midpoint writing assessment, whole class capstone debate, and final independentwriting assessment are included. Support materials are integrated into the lessons, and the primary source document pages can be found at the end of the unit guide.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Education
Elementary Education
English Language Arts
History
Information Science
Statistics and Probability
Material Type:
Unit of Study
Author:
The Rockefeller Archive Center
Date Added:
01/06/2020
The War of the Worlds, Fake News, and Media Literacy Primary Source Unit
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The following unit offers multiple entry points into developing an understanding of media literacy. The unit framework and primary sources can be integrated into classrooms of grades 4-12. Each lesson has student objectives that can be accomplished within 40 minute periods over the course of several weeks. A midpoint writing assessment, whole class capstone debate, and final independent writing assessment are included. Support materials are integrated into the lessons, and the primary source document pages can be found at the end of the unit guide.

Subject:
Applied Science
Arts and Humanities
Business and Communication
Communication
Composition and Rhetoric
Education
Elementary Education
English Language Arts
History
Information Science
Journalism
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Literature
Mathematics
Reading Foundation Skills
Reading Informational Text
Speaking and Listening
Statistics and Probability
U.S. History
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Case Study
Diagram/Illustration
Interactive
Lesson
Lesson Plan
Primary Source
Reading
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Unit of Study
Date Added:
11/05/2019