The
Minnesota Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in Minnesota. We have created a
FREE Online Teacher’s Guide for Primary Sources to help you to teach primary sources more effectively and use creative strategies for integrating primary source materials into your classroom. This
FREE Online Teacher's Guide for Primary Sources is 15 pages. It includes teacher tools, student handouts, and student worksheets. Click
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FREE Online Teacher's Guide for Primary Sources.
The Minnesota Primary Sources will help your students build common core skills including:
• Analysis
• Critical Thinking
• Point of View
• Compare and Contrast
• Order of Events
• And Much More!
Perfect for gallery walks and literature circles! Great research and reference materials!
The 20
Minnesota Primary Sources are:
1. Painting entitled Falls of Saint Anthony, Upper Mississippi – 1847
2. Photograph of Alexander Ramsey – first Territorial Governor of Minnesota – circa 1860
3. Painting of the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment on the attack – 1863 Battle of Gettysburg
4. Photograph of Minnehaha Falls – circa 1865
5. Photograph of Minnesota pine logging operation – circa 1870
6. Poster advertising Swedish play Yon Yonson – set in a Minnesota lumber camp – 1899
7. Photograph of miners at work on the Mesabi Iron Range – 1903
8. Photograph of Native American pilot on steamship Keenora – Lake of the Woods – circa 1914
9. Photograph of ships loading cargo at ore docks on the Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railway – Duluth, Minnesota – circa 1915
10. Poster showing Uncle Sam with Minnesota farmer with ears of corn – 1917
11. Wheaties¨ cereal box label – General Mills product – 1933
12. Swedish immigrant to Minnesota working at a WWII defense factory – 1942
13. Photograph of Minnesota Senator Hubert Humphrey, then Vice President-elect, with Martin Luther King, Jr., and Coretta Scott King – 1964
14. Photograph of presidential candidate Jimmy Carter and his running mate, Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale, at the Democratic National Convention – 1976
15. Photograph of Arthur Fry – invented the Post-it¨ note while working for the 3M Company – product introduced in 1980
16. Photograph of Fort Snelling's round tower – the one surviving piece of the original fort – 2004
17. Aerial photograph of Two Harbors, Minnesota, on the north shore of Lake Superior – Great Lakes freighter is leaving the harbor – 2007
18. Photograph of first stone house built in Minnesota in 1836 by Henry Sibley – first governor of Minnesota – 2008
19. Population density map of Minnesota – 2010
20. Photograph of Civil War drum used by the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment– 2011
Your students will:
- think critically and analytically, interpret events, and question various perspectives of history.
- participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations instead of memorizing facts and a writer's interpretations.
- integrate and evaluate information provided in diverse media formats to deepen their understanding of historical events.
- experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience.
Each primary resource is printed on sturdy 8.5" X 11" cardstock.