The
Missouri Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in Missouri. 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 Missouri 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
Missouri Primary Sources are:
1. Illustration of Chief of the Little Osages – 1807
2. Map of the Lewis and Clark Expedition – beginning in Missouri – published 1814
3. Portrait of frontiersman Daniel Boone – settled in Missouri in 1799 – only known portrait made in his lifetime – 1820
4. Replica of the Senate joint resolution declaring the admission of Missouri into the Union – February 26, 1821
5. Oil painting entitled Fur Traders on Missouri River – 1845
6. Notice of reward – for finding slave family that escaped from owner in St. Louis – 1847
7. Illustration of courthouse in Independence, Missouri – 1855
8. Poster for the Pony Express advertising fast mail delivery from Missouri to California – 1860
9. Photograph of Laura Ingalls Wilder as an adult – circa 1900
10. Map of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair
11. Photograph of Missouri native and famous author Mark Twain – 1907
12. Photograph of an Anheuser-Busch refrigerated boxcar – Adolphus Busch was first American brewer to use refrigerated railroad cars – 1910
13. Photograph of Tommy Hawkins – age 5 – selling newspapers on the streets in St. Louis – 1910
14. Photograph of the St. Louis Red Cross Motor Corps on duty during the influenza epidemic – October 1918
15. Photograph of Charles Lindbergh working on engine of his airplane, Spirit of St. Louis – made first solo nonstop flight across Atlantic Ocean – 1927
16. Political cartoon about erosion – Missouri State Conservationist – 1935
17. Poster entitled "One of America's Greatest Scientists" - referring to Missouri-born George Washington Carver – 1943
18. Democratic Party election poster featuring Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman – 1944
19. Photograph of surrender ceremony on board the USS Missouri – General Douglas MacArthur signs the agreement between the Allied nations and Japan to end World War II – September 2, 1945
20. The Gateway Arch, or "Gateway to the West" - centerpiece of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, St. Louis – circa 1980
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.