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Lay, Eldonna – Social Studies Review, 1982
Describes resources used to teach local history at the third-grade level in El Cajon, California. The content of the resources is described as well as the methods used to develop the resources. (AM)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Experiential Learning, Grade 3
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Jorgensen-Esmaili, Karen – Social Studies Review, 1982
Describes a local history unit used to introduce fourth graders in Berkeley, California to history. The topics and activities used to teach the topics are discussed. (AM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Experiential Learning, History Instruction, Learning Activities
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Little, Cynthia J. – OAH Magazine of History, 1989
Describes the way in which a social studies chairman has used document-based lessons to encourage the use of primary sources in high school U.S. history classes. Lessons are designed to enable students to examine how national events are played out locally. (RW)
Descriptors: Class Activities, High Schools, Local History, Primary Sources
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Metcalf, Fay – Social Education, 1992
Presents a lesson plan on the San Antonio River missions. Suggests that students will learn about the role of Spanish missions in the history of the Southwest, the psychological and cultural factors that led Indians to accept mission life, and Spanish contributions to agriculture through irrigation systems. Includes student readings, maps, and…
Descriptors: Historic Sites, History Instruction, Learning Activities, Local History
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Rosenzweig, Roy – International Journal of Oral History, 1984
Microcomputers can offer much assistance in one of the major problems that faces virtually every oral history program--organizing, manipulating, and making available the vast quantities of historical data collected. How to automate an oral history program is described. The database management system dBASE II is discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Processing, Higher Education, Local History
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OAH Magazine of History, 1989
Discusses programs available through state humanities councils, museums, and historical societies to help students and teachers interested in local history gain access to information and materials. Includes media and archival sources of information. (RW)
Descriptors: Archives, Documentaries, Elementary Secondary Education, History Instruction
McBride, Lawrence W. – 1993
This document consists of six lesson plans and primary source materials on the history of black people in the Illinois cities of Bloomington and Normal. The plans were developed for the Bloomington-Normal Black History Project which concentrates on recovering and recording the history of blacks in those two cities. These pilot editions are…
Descriptors: Black History, History Instruction, Instructional Materials, Local History
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Cantrell, Andrea – Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, 1989
Outlines procedures for locating and using primary source materials to supplement state or local history studies, listing possible resources for primary source materials. Points out precautions to be taken when working with these materials. Demonstrates how primary sources can be made available to students. (LS)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, History Instruction, Instructional Materials, Local History
Helsley, Alexia Jones – 1997
Cemeteries dot the U.S. urban and rural landscape. They hold genealogical information and more. This guide suggests using cemeteries as an informative resource for classroom study. The guide outlines research strategies, provides additional information for interpreting and understanding cemeteries in rural and urban South Carolina, and contains…
Descriptors: Built Environment, Family History, Field Trips, Local History
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Singer, Alan, Ed. – Social Science Docket, 2003
This Social Science Docket theme issue focuses on teaching local history and included theme and non-themed articles, lesson plans, learning activities, and book, movie, and museum reviews designed for K-12 social studies teachers. Articles and materials in this issue are: "Editing Is Not Censorship" (Alan Singer); "Teachers Respond…
Descriptors: Editing, Elementary Secondary Education, Heritage Education, Local History
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Contosta, David R. – History Teacher, 1984
A college teacher discusses how in his U.S. history survey course he uses the buildings in Philadelphia to illuminate the principal forces of national history. For example, colonial buildings and street plans can help students understand the bourgeois character of early Philadelphia and of other American cities. (RM)
Descriptors: Architecture, Buildings, Community Resources, Course Content
Blackburn, Marc K. – 1999
This lesson is based on the National Register of Historic Places registration file, "Pioneer Square Historic District," and other sources about Seattle (Washington) and the Klondike Gold Rush. The lesson helps students understand how Seattle exemplified the prosperity of the Klondike Gold Rush after 1897 when news of a gold strike in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Historic Sites, Local History, Primary Sources
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Fuller, Frank – History and Social Science Teacher, 1981
Describes a secondary school unit to help students understand the working class skills, economics, and politics of their community. Students study the local logging industry, the effect of the logger and the union on the lives of community people, past struggles, and present conditions of loggers. (KC)
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Course Descriptions, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
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Metcalf, Fay – Social Education, 1993
Describes a secondary level lesson based on the Johnstown Flood in 1889. Includes maps, photographs, and readings designed as student resources. (CFR)
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Geography Instruction, History Instruction, Local History
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Shull, Carol D.; Hunter, Kathleen – Social Education, 1991
Introduces "Teaching with Historic Places," a lesson plan series designed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the National Park Service. Suggests that teaching with historic places helps students develop an empathetic connection to the past. Explains that students use historic places as primary sources to gather facts and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Historic Sites, History Instruction, Instructional Materials
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