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Burke-Hengen, Mary, Ed.; Gillespie, Tim, Ed. – 1995
This book focuses on building community through the sharing of history and traditions that students have inherited. Two eighth-grade teachers collaborated with others in their Oregon school to collect teaching strategies for this book. The teachers worked to build curriculum that integrated social studies with language arts and other subject…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Community, Family History, Family Influence
Download full textBass, Randy; Rosenzweig, Roy – 1999
This paper discusses the implementation of technology in social studies education. The first section addresses reasons why technology is used in social studies education, including the goal of making the social studies classroom a site of active learning and critical thinking. The second section describes three frameworks for using technology to…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Computer Uses in Education, Critical Thinking, Educational Technology
Brown, Cynthia Stokes – 1994
This book advocates that teachers of history create for their students a workshop environment where they actually can practice being historians. Adolescents, rather than thinking analytically, prefer to identify strongly with heroes and heroines and to explore their own lives and identity, character and convictions, through heroic stories. This…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Content Area Writing, Global Education, History
PDF pending restorationTeachers' Curriculum Inst., Mountain View, CA. – 1995
This book is used as a two-day workshop for teachers in how to use the "History Alive!" program. The three premises of the program include: (1) cooperative interaction; (2) multiple intelligences; and (3) the spiral curriculum. The strategies developed focus upon: (1) Interactive Slide Lectures; (2) Social Studies Skill Builders; (3)…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Cultural Differences
Levstik, Linda S.; Barton, Keith C. – 1997
This book draws on classroom experience to provide models of instructionally sound, thoughtful, and thought-provoking history teaching for students from a wide variety of backgrounds. Most chapters begin with a classroom vignette showing a community of inquiry as students are actively engaged in their history education. Each vignette offers a…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Discovery Learning, Elementary Education, Elementary School Curriculum
Early Childhood Education Administration Inst., Rockville, MD. – 1994
Intended to help children sustain gains made in school, this manual consists of simple learning activities that parents can use to engage children ranging from second grade through middle school/junior high school. The description of each activity outlines the purpose for the activity, the materials needed, the duration of the activity, how it is…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Childhood Interests, Childhood Needs, Computer Assisted Instruction
