Lesson Plan

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In 2019 USU Special Collections photograph curator Dan Davis went on a six-month sabbatical. He saw how other institutions were creatively using primary sources in their instruction, and he wanted to combine his two main interests, teaching with primary sources and nineteenth century Western photography, into one lesson plan.

He took a deep dive into the literature on teaching with primary sources, teaching with visual images, and creating lesson plans based on archival material. In his lesson plan he provides prep readings, lesson plan objectives, classroom mechanics, and three modeling examples.

While this lesson plan is far more detailed than what is typically used in a one-shot archival instruction session, and it is focused on nineteenth century Western photographs, it could easily act as a template for teaching with other visual resources.

Citation Information

Daniel Davis. "Exploring the West in the Golden Age of Photography" Western History or History of 19th Century Photography (2019)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/daniel_davis/6/