Provides a lesson plan using historical photographs to teach local history in elementary school social studies classes. Suggests sources and copying procedures. Employs cooperative learning strategies in which students title photographs and describe what they see, then compare their findings with those of other groups and with historical…

Discusses the high school history curriculum and the use of primary sources that reveal women's lives and roles in U.S. history. Highlights include the role of the school library media specialist in making materials available; teacher resistance; the use of video; and an annotated bibliography of 42 sources for additional information. (three…

Discusses the availability and utility of the various types of documentation that historians and students can use to research the German government's systematic extermination of the Jews, the Gypsies, and the handicapped during the 1930s and 1940s. Available documents include government records, private agency records, trial records, and…

Describes the 75 hours of primary source material compiled on videotape, covering 2217 individual units, and spanning 93 years of world history found in "The Video Encyclopedia of the 20th Century." Presents strategies for using the "Video Encyclopedia" themes for world history, as well as descriptions of sample units contained…

Describes a course project in which students used computers to analyze census data to learn social history. Outlines the research project from the beginning when students drew samples from the census data to the final paper written by students. Argues that the analysis of historical data by computers has many potential applications. (DB)

Asserts that religious sermons are valuable and important historical documents. Maintains that this is particularly true of U.S. history prior to and during the Civil War. Reviews several significant sermons and provides an annotated bibliography of sources. (CFR)

Contends that, despite increasingly sophisticated means of communication, posters remain a powerful cornerstone of many government advertising campaigns. Describes the beginnings and evolution of Smokey Bear from a World War II homefront poster to an ongoing advertising success. (CFR)

Contends that history teachers should help students develop critical viewing and thinking skills about visual images. Discusses the emerging practice of blurring the lines between entertainment and information in television, films, and other visual presentations. Provides two sets of questions to help students analyze documentaries, television…

Profiles a series of teaching activities that uses reproductions of entries from President Harry Truman's diary. The activities include content analysis and related research projects. Includes several reproductions of entries describing Truman's frustration with Congress, and his loneliness as his wife and daughter fulfilled other commitments.…

Describes a library-research-skills curriculum integrated with a social studies curriculum for emancipation celebrations for sixth graders. Using the school library media center and public and university libraries, students access, identify, and retrieve primary sources for evaluating and interpreting history. Student journal excerpts are…

Presents a lesson plan on "Aldolpho Romo v. William E. Laird, et al." that addresses the history of Mexican American segregation/desegregation in schooling and the concept of "separate but equal." Explains that students use primary documents (included) in a group activity and conduct oral histories. Includes activities, questions, and handouts.…

Describes Web-based reference products that are available to K-12 media specialists through the Gale Group. Highlights include the Student Resource Center (SRC), a collection of databases; searching in the SRC; the Junior Reference Collection; separate databases; and American Journey Online, containing primary sources related to American history.…

Presents interesting and concise background material on an 1874 treaty between Canadian Indians and colonists concerning hunting and fishing rights. Includes a copy of the treaty as well as learning activities utilizing document analysis. The activities ask pertinent questions of each paragraph in the document. (MJP)

Discusses various definitions of the "testimonial" and characteristics that distinguish it from related literary genres. Examines autobiographical and testimonial literature by Native women of British Columbia, focusing on first-hand accounts of student experiences in Indian residential schools. Contains 29 references. (SV)

Provides an annotated list of websites pertaining to the Industrial Revolution. Topics include the Boott Cotton Mills in Massachusetts, coal mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, labor conflicts of the Progressive Era, Andrew Carnegie, and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. (CMK)