The Oregon History Project Expert Pages provide information from a variety of disciplinary perspectives related to reading and interpreting primary source materials. The Expert Pages offer teachers and students new ways to think about primary sources. Because they draw from a range of disciplines, the lesson plans supply students and teachers with methods and methodologies with which to more fully engage primary source material such as maps, journals, newspapers, oral histories, ephemera, and letters.
Each Expert Page contains:
• an Introduction that describes the writer, the writer’s field, and the value of using primary sources
• three Lesson Plans for elementary, middle, and high school classrooms that include sections on background and project information, resources needed (with references to OHP documents), project steps, and evaluation
• an Additional Resources page
Teachers and students can use these pages to explore the possibilities of using primary source documents to more deeply engage Archaeology, Ethno-History, Cartography, and Literature.