Learning Center: Teacher's Guide Introduction

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Written by:
Brook Haskins, Peter Boscow Elementary School, Hillsboro, Ore.
Kiva Liljequist, Beaumont Middle School, Portland, Ore.
Becky Luckens, Pacific Crest Community School, Portland Ore.
Teresa Squires Osborne, Reynolds High School, Troutdale, Ore.
Kristin Sacks, Hazelbrook Middle School, Tualatin, Ore
Timothy J. Graham, Cleveland High School, Portland, Ore.

The OHP Teacher’s Guide aims to bring history to life through supporting teachers’ efforts to teach history through the use of primary source documents or historical records.  The teachers who created this Guide came together from all levels of curriculum with varying levels of background and experience for the purpose of providing ideas to capture students’ imaginations and to challenge the limits of their own and their students’ knowledge. 

The Teacher’s Guide is based on the idea that inquiring into history can help students understand their own beliefs in relationship to those of other times, places, and people. Primary sources can enhance that important experience. Students learn to relate to and empathize with historical figures and times when they read diaries, listen to oral histories, and interpret historic maps. Primary sources act as passageways into Oregon History and provide students an opportunity for intimacy and connection with those they are studying. Historical figures become multi-dimensional and students begin to develop fuller understandings of local, regional, and state history.

The lessons and activities presented in the Teacher’s Guide cover both Oregon’s Common Curriculum Goals and the Content Standards of the appropriate benchmark level in Social Sciences.

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