Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in Government, Economics, and Contemporary World Issues

by Shiveley, James M.

• ISBN13: 9780313312830
• ISBN10: 0313312834
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-09-30
• Publisher: Libraries Unltd Inc

Summary

Teachers of political science, social studies, and economics, as well as school library media specialists, will find this resource invaluable for incorporating the Internet into their classroom lessons. Over 150 primary source Web sites are referenced and paired with questions and activities designed to encourage critical thinking skills. Completing the activities for the lessons in this book will allow students to evaluate the source of information, the content presented, and it usefulness in the context of their assignments. Along with each Web site, a summary of the site's contents identifies important primary source documents such as constitutions, treaties, speeches, court cases, statistics, and other official documents. The questions and activites invite the students to log on to the Web site, read the information presented, interact with the data, and analyze it critically to answer such questions as: Who created this document? Is the source reliable? How is the information useful and how does it relate to present-day circumstances? If I were in this situation, would I have responded the same way as the person in charge? Strengthening these critical thinking skills will help prepare students for both college and career in the 21st century.

Author Biography

JAMES M. SHIVELEY is an Associate Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Miami University where he teaches courses in social studies methods and supervises student teachers.PHILLIP J. VANFOSSEN is an Associate Professor of Social Studies Education in the School of Education at Purdue University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: The Internet and the World Wide Web---Potential for Education	xiii
PART I USING CRITICAL THINKING IN POLITICAL SCIENCE, ECONOMICS, AND CONTEMPORARY WORLD ISSUES	1	(16)
PART II USING PRIMARY SOURCES	17	(20)
PART III PRIMARY SOURCE SITES	37	(202)
Political Science	39	(134)
Early America	39	(14)
How to Read a 200-year-old Document	39	(1)
Mayflower Compact	40	(2)
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut	42	(1)
Peter Zenger and Freedom of the Press	43	(2)
Bacon's Rebellion	45	(1)
Iroquois Constitution	46	(2)
Albany Plan of Union	48	(1)
Stamp Act	49	(2)
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death	51	(2)
Revolutionary Period and Early U.S. Documents	53	(13)
Declaration of Independence	53	(1)
Articles of Confederation	54	(2)
Northwest Ordinance	56	(1)
Constitution of the United States	57	(2)
Virginia Declaration of Rights	59	(2)
Federalist Papers, Number 10	61	(1)
Proclamation of Neutrality	62	(2)
The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798	64	(2)
The Nineteenth Century	66	(15)
War of 1812	66	(1)
Monroe Doctrine	67	(2)
Declaration of Sentiments	69	(1)
Fugitive Slave Act	70	(2)
Emancipation Proclamation	72	(2)
Fourteenth Amendment	74	(1)
Fort Larmie Treaty	75	(2)
Thomas Nast Homepage	77	(2)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890	79	(2)
The Twentieth Century	81	(16)
Child Labor	81	(1)
Jim Crow Laws	82	(2)
Prohibition	84	(1)
Red Scare	85	(2)
First Hundred Days of the New Deal	87	(2)
World War II Posters	89	(1)
Truman and the Decision to Drop the Bomb	90	(2)
Nixon-Kennedy Debate	92	(2)
Martin Luther King, Jr.----``I Have a Dream''	94	(1)
Watergate and Nixon's Resignation	95	(2)
The Judiciary Branch	97	(15)
John Marshall	97	(1)
Dred Scott	98	(2)
Plessy v. Ferguson	100	(1)
Scopes Monkey Trial	101	(2)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas	103	(2)
Thurgood Marshall	105	(1)
Roe v. Wade	106	(2)
Miranda v. Arizona	108	(2)
Today's Supreme Court	110	(2)
The Presidency and the Executive Branch	112	(17)
Presidents---In Their Own Words	112	(1)
Letters of Thomas Jefferson	113	(2)
Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address	115	(1)
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson	116	(2)
Theodore Roosevelt	118	(2)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Speech	120	(1)
Other Inaugural Speeches	121	(1)
John F. Kennedy's Berlin Speech	122	(1)
Presidential Succession Act	123	(2)
Executive Orders	125	(2)
Presidential Libraries	127	(2)
Legislative Branch	129	(14)
About the U.S. Congress	129	(1)
Tour of the Capitol Building	130	(2)
Congressional Record	132	(2)
House of Representatives	134	(2)
Senate's Official Homepage	136	(2)
Rules of the House and Senate	138	(1)
Seventeenth Amendment	139	(2)
Committees	141	(2)
Elections and the Voting Process	143	(14)
Presidential Elections and Voter Turnout	143	(1)
The Electoral College	144	(2)
National Party Committees	146	(2)
Prohibition Party	148	(2)
Learning Page Library of Congress and the Election of 1920	150	(1)
Election of 1860	151	(2)
Election of 1948	153	(2)
American Indian Movement	155	(2)
International Politics	157	(16)
Magna Carta	157	(1)
John Locke's Second Treatise on Government	158	(1)
Edmund Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America	159	(2)
Paris Peace Treaty of 1783	161	(1)
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville	162	(1)
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen	163	(2)
Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations	165	(2)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights	167	(1)
Truman Doctrine	168	(1)
Elections around the World	169	(4)
Economics	173	(66)
General Economic Data	173	(8)
The Dismal Scientist	173	(1)
About.Com: Economics	174	(1)
Economagic	175	(1)
GeoStat	176	(2)
Global Population and Economic Statistics	178	(1)
EconData.Net	179	(2)
International Economics	181	(3)
Foreign Currency Converter	181	(1)
International Trade Data	182	(2)
Economic History	184	(12)
U.S. Currency Exhibit	184	(1)
What Is (Was) a Dollar Worth?	185	(1)
Adam Smith's Writings on Economic Theory	186	(2)
The Leslie Brock Center for the Study of Colonial Currency	188	(1)
David Hume's Economic Writings	189	(1)
David Ricardo's Writings	190	(2)
Factory Life circa 1900	192	(1)
Internet Modern History Sourcebook: The Industrial Revolution	193	(1)
Historical Census Data	194	(2)
Macroeconomic Data	196	(7)
Unemployment and Productivity	196	(1)
Gross Domestic Product	197	(2)
Budget of the U.S. Government	199	(1)
Income and Poverty	200	(3)
Other Economics Sites	203	(8)
Contemporary Economic and Business Cartoons	203	(1)
The Stock Market Indexes	204	(1)
The Department of Commerce	205	(1)
State and County Demographic and Economic Profiles	206	(2)
WOODROW	208	(1)
Dr. Yardeni's Economic History Page	209	(2)
Contemporary World Issues	211	(28)
China and Taiwan	211	(1)
Cuba and the United States	212	(1)
HIV and Africa	213	(1)
Human Rights in China	214	(1)
North Korea	215	(2)
Refugee Crisis	217	(1)
Drugs in Colombia	218	(1)
India and Pakistan	219	(1)
Newspapers around the World	220	(2)
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty	222	(1)
Terrorism	223	(2)
World Trade Organization	225	(2)
Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries	227	(1)
Middle East Conflict	228	(2)
World Hunger	230	(1)
Third World Debt	231	(2)
The Rights of Children	233	(2)
Selected Primary Source Databases	235	(4)
Index	239