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Breaking Away from the Textbook, Volume I: Creative Ways to Teach World History Prehistory to 1600. Second Edition
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Pahl, Ron H. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011
Teaching history should not be reciting an endless list of dead men, entombed between the covers of a textbook. Instead, "Breaking Away from the Textbook" offers a fascinating journey through world history. Not a comprehensive, theory-heavy guide, this book focuses on active classroom activities, methods for students to grapple with humanity's…
Descriptors: World History, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Textbooks
Breaking Away from the Textbook, Volume II: Creative Ways to Teach World History. Second Edition
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Pahl, Ron H. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011
Teaching history should not simply be an endless recitation of irrelevant facts, entombed between the covers of a textbook. Instead, "Breaking Away from the Textbook" offers a fascinating journey through world history. Not a comprehensive, theory-heavy guide, this book instead focuses on exciting classroom activities, methods for students to…
Descriptors: World History, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Textbooks
Oral History: Its Background, Definition, and Interview Types.
Daly, Richard F. – 1983
Oral history, a method of collecting historical information through preplanned tape recorded interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge of an historical event, is a viable learning activity at the high school level. This methodology was conceived and later institutionalized by Alan Nevins in the 1940s as a way to counter the loss of…
Descriptors: Definitions, High Schools, Historiography, Interviews
Wait! . . . Before You Throw Out That Outdated Textbook.
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Zarnowski, Myra – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 1991
Outlines a sixth grade social studies project rewriting portions of outdated textbooks. Suggests steps by which students critically read, evaluate, and rewrite historical accounts of the Soviet Union to reflect recent changes. Explains how the project develops skills in evaluating information and making revisions. Emphasizes the active learning…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Current Events, Evaluative Thinking
People Through the Ages. Social Studies Interim Grade Guide for Grade Eight.
Manitoba Dept. of Education, Winnipeg. Curriculum Development Branch. – 1982
Supplementary units of study help eighth graders in Manitoba explore the ways people lived within selected societies of the past and realize that life today is closely related to developments which have occurred through the ages. Units and subtopics are: (1) Life during Prehistoric and Early Historic Times--prehistoric times, life in early river…
Descriptors: Ancient History, Communism, Curriculum Guides, Developed Nations
Your City as a Global Fieldtrip.
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Gregg, Dennis; And Others – Social Studies Review, 1996
Describes a high school world history class field trip structured like a scavenger hunt. Following weeks of preparation the class journeyed to San Francisco (California) looking to answer the question, "What is Culture?" At various locations, the class conducted interviews, collected artifacts, and answered questions. (MJP)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Class Activities, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Context
Kentucky History and Geography.
Breckinridge County Board of Education, Hardinsburg, KY. – 1978
Designed for use in grades 6, 7, and 8, this curriculum guide provides 11 individual units for teaching Kentucky history and geography with the recommended text "Kentucky Heritage" published by Steck-Vaughn. Unit titles are The Blue Grass State, Early Explorations of Kentucky, Development of the Government of Kentucky, The Constitution…
Descriptors: Answer Keys, Black History, Civil War (United States), Colonial History (United States)