Teaching with Colorado's Historic Newspapers
Professional Development Lessons for Educators
From "EXTRA! EXTRA! Learn All About it- Using Historic Newspapers with Students
June 25, 2005, University of Denver

• Searching strategies for Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection   
• Comprehending Content: Historical Documents through a Strategy Lens
• Yesterday's News, Today's Lessons
• Sand Creek Though the Eyes of Colorado Territory
• Models for Using Primary Source Documents
• Directed Reading Activity: Perspectives on National Suffrage  
• Pre-lesson Activity  

Model two-hour workshop
From Technology in Education, June 23, 2005, Copper Mountain, CO

• Using Digitized Historic Newspapers with Students

Tools for using historic newspapers

• Graphic Organizers
  
  • Media Analysis Form  
  • Newspaper Analysis Worksheet  
  • Written Document Analysis Worksheet
  • News Article Analysis Worksheet
• Mining for Treasures  
  in Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection
• Citing on-line newspaper articles

K-12 lessons using historic newspaper content:
written by educators from Academy School District 20, Colorado Springs

• Bias in Historical Newspapers
• Dramaturgy and Historic Newspapers: Music Man Research
• Historical Perspectives on the Great War
• How the Spanish American War Was Reported
• Introduction to Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection

Higher Education

• Research Assignments for Western or Colorado History  
  
• Research Assignment for Borderlands History  
  

News Event Timeline coming soon!

Thanks to:

Colorado State Library, Collaborative Digitization Program, Colorado Historical Society