Jackdaw Portfolios?

[tullyfamily]

Anyone use these? Likes/Dislikes? Better yet... anyone BLOG about these & show pics? :001_smile:

[jenL]

Love these! I think they provide such wonderful examples of primary sources for kids to actually see and understand history. I used a Holocaust one when I taught ps, and the kids loved being able to see the variety of maps, invoices for concentration camp purchases by the Germans, letters uncovered that were written by Jews in hiding, propaganda papers, etc.

 

I will definitely be looking into them when my boys get a bit older.

[Guest jcarendse]

I am excited to start using the Jackdaw Portfolios this summer. I plan on purchasing one for our study of the Civil War. Thanks for sharing your experience with the portfolios.

[Jyniffrec]

I want to bump this up because I have the same question. :001_smile:

[greensummervillian]

Me too. I wish they weren't so expensive.

[mcconnellboys]

I hate to rain on the parade, but I hate them. They are way too expensive for what you get. The pictures are mostly black and white and of poor quality. We've found better versions (in color) of the same pictures in many, many books available for free at our library. The internet now also has tons of primary source material online, free of charge, with photos of superior quality. And if you're going to spend money, it's better to go see museum exhibits and view the actual artifacts of facsimiles of them.

 

There are also now many book series that incorporate primary source material into them via writings and/or pictures.

 

Here are just a few examples of primary source materials available:

 

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/documents/documents_p1.cfm

 

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/

 

http://www.historycentral.com/documents/index.html

 

http://library.csusm.edu/subject_guides/history/online_primary.asp

 

The UNESCO World Heritage site provides photos and infos of properties throughout the world, for a view of primary data on architecture:

 

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list

 

Any good museum website will have a large catalogue of photos of their artifacts.

 

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/ancientartifacts/

 

This is probably the most comprehensive site:

 

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html

 

This is ancient, but there's also a link at top for the medieval source book and modern source book.