The Primary Source Project (PSP) is a timely effort being conducted by ISKME, supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to collaboratively create a slim canon of openly accessible and contextualized primary sources on OER Commons for engaging K-12 teachers and students. Materials will include both currently open sources and materials that will become open through the advocacy work of the project.
The Primary Source Project (PSP) is a timely effort being conducted by ISKME, supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to collaboratively create a slim canon of openly accessible and contextualized primary sources on OER Commons for engaging K-12 teachers and students. Materials will include both currently open sources and materials that will become open through the advocacy work of the project. Leveraging ISKME’s OER Commons infrastructure, the project will develop a prototype to support K-12 curriculum needs related to finding and using a diverse set of primary source materials that support the teaching and learning of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Math, primarily, as well as supporting literacy across the core disciplines and skills contained, for example, in the Next Generation Science Standards and comparable standards for History/Social Studies. This work will also provide use case scenarios and create policies for inclusion to guide future use and growth of the primary source collection across the curriculum, while creating support for deeper learning through the modification and dissemination of OER.