Content: Primary vs. Secondary Sources, COVID 19

Historical Thinking Skills: Contextualization, Sourcing

What sources do historians use to learn about the past? What sources might historians use to learn about life in 2020?

Content: Primary vs. Secondary Sources, COVID 19

Historical Thinking Skills: Contextualization, Sourcing

How do first-person accounts, like diaries, shape our understanding of history?

CRQ Practice: World Health Organization - Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) advice for the public: Myth busters and PBS NewsHour on Misinformation

CRQ Practice: World Health Organization Myth Busters

Analyze Photographs and Videos: Students will use a modified three reads protocol to analyze contemporary images about COVID-19.

Find Your Own Photograph or Video to Analyze: Students will find their own photograph or video about COVID-19 and use a modified three reads protocol to analyze the source they have selected.

Create Primary Sources: Students will develop three primary sources that reflect their current experiences for potential submission to the Brooklyn Historical Society or New York Historical Society.