tullyfamily Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Anyone use these? Likes/Dislikes? Better yet... anyone BLOG about these & show pics? :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenL Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jcarendse Posted May 27, 2010 Share Posted May 27, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jyniffrec Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 I want to bump this up because I have the same question. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greensummervillian Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 Me too. I wish they weren't so expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcconnellboys Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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