Junior Detectives

I really enjoyed reading this lesson. I thought it was great at having students explore different types of history through primary sources themselves, which helped to make the subject less bias. I really like how the lesson included 3 different primary sources from the perspectives of 3 different types of people, such as the white child laborers, Rosa Parks and also the Japanese Americans during Pearl Harbor. I think it is important for kids to understand that everything they have come across is not alway accurate or right. By doing this lesson, students are able to look at the primary sources and really analyze them and critically think about what the person was thinking and how they may have really felt in the pictures. I think the idea of being "detectives" excites kids and also gives them a sense of seriousness by connecting them to real detectives.