Homespun: Teaching Local History in Grades 6-12ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2001 - 173 halaman There is a renaissance occurring in American history classrooms: teachers have discovered that local history offers students not only far richer content and more enjoyable learning experiences, but also unique insight into our national character. And they can even address social studies standards. Now, there's a book to show teachers how. Using several social studies and geography standards as a framework for planning, Homespun offers teachers some of the best instructional activities for learning more about the lifeblood of communities - their traditions, beliefs, social and economic forces, religion, and ethnicity. In the first part of the book, Stevens describes activities in which students visit cemeteries and historic sites . . . compose a local history . . . study architectural and housing patterns . . . review old photographs . . . conduct interviews . . . interpret maps . . . write their own family history . . . create a community image. The second half of the book features a collection of highly successful state and nationally recognized projects that represent "best practices" in local history. These "model" activities - many of which are award winning - are great starting points for teachers who want to develop their own local history projects. |
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... teaching junior high school social studies . This new text is going to expand on some of those early successful activities and combine them with additional activities I developed while teaching social studies teachers at the University ...
... teachers are subject to community scrunity . School boards ex- pect teachers to behave above the norm , to serve as moral examples . Examples of teaching contracts and behavior codes help us gain insights into local community ...
... teachers face regarding not only field trips but a variety of extended activities that appear to take up valuable time . However , we need to ask ourselves if we are teaching just to cover the curriculum or if we are teaching to create ...