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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... understand historic sites . I have selected Geography Standard 17 : How to Apply Geography to Understand the Past to Illustrate How You Can Use Three of the Basic Themes of Geography ( 1986 ) Historic Markers 25.
... understand local history , middle and secondary school students need to examine the history of architectural styles and housing patterns in their own communities . Too often we pass old buildings and do not understand what we see ...
... understand families better can be accomplished in several ways . The first is through students ' work . A journal or a diary , its pages brown and brittle like autumn's leaves , set the scene for a short story . Imaginative writers ...