Seeking History: Teaching with Primary Sources in Grades 4-6

by Monica Edinger

Primary sources are real stuff and real stuff is powerful stuff. Civil War photographs. E.B. White's drafts for Charlotte's Web. An heirloom quilt. Birth certificates. All evoke actual past times and events. And no matter how well written, no textbook can provide the same sense of being there, of the realness that primary sources provide. They help us as nothing else does to begin to understand the past.

Seeking History is one of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325002657
• ISBN13: 9780325002651
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 6