World History
Teaching with Historic Places. This is an excellent ERIC Digest by Kathleen Hunter from 1994. It deals with teaching K-12 students about history using the local community as a classroom.
Eleven years later, this program stills seems to be in place at the National Parks Service. I am glad to see that. History is boring to most students. Why not make it relevant by connecting the past to the place where students live?
I was bored by history as a student. I vividly remember when I first got interested in the past. My elementary school class went on a trip to see Fort Meigs in Perrysburg, Ohio. I was impressed by both the fort and the old fashioned guns they showed off! And it made me realize that I lived in a historic place that was not that far removed from the frontier days.
From the site:
Our communities are classrooms waiting to be explored; they offer places that are continually shaped and reshaped by our historical experiences and cultural expressions. Some of these places document dramatic events, heroic deeds, creative and technical inventiveness, and the lives of extraordinary men and women. Others reflect the everyday events and patterns of ordinary people over time. Both types of places--the extraordinary and the ordinary--become a part of our local, state, and national heritage.
These kinds of historic places are focal points of a new curriculum project for schools sponsored by the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places and The National Trust for Historic Preservation. These agencies have formed a partnership to offer a program of educational materials and professional training and development for teachers, museum educators, and site interpreters. This ERIC Digest discusses the TEACHING WITH HISTORIC PLACES program, its products, and how they can be used in classrooms and communities by students, teachers, and other interested groups.
- Historic Cities
I found a sharp site that features maps, literature, documents, books, and other materials concerning historic cities around the world. It is Historic Cities. It is a joint project of the Historic Cities Center of the Department of Geography, the Hebrew...
- Walk Through Historic Buildings
Walk Through Historic Buildings - The US National Park Service provides this quick guide to identifying the visual character of a historic building, to be aware of what is important to preserve. It also includes a quiz. One point to remember is that just...
- Heritage Square Museum
Heritage Square Museum A mid-1800s crossroads community in the upstate New York village of Ontario. Tours and activities to educate children and adults about local history by showing the actual buildings and living environments where people worked and...
- Using Primary Sources On The Internet To Teach And Learn History.
Using Primary Sources on the Internet To Teach and Learn History. Primary sources are a good way to teach history. This paper gives some ideas for how to use the Internet to do this. From the site: The Internet enables teachers to enhance the teaching...
- Teaching History In The Elementary School.
Teaching History in the Elementary School. The teaching of history should begin in elementary school. This essay shows why. From the site: Recent studies have shown that the historical knowledge of young Americans is less than most educators and citizens...
World History
Teaching with Historic Places
Teaching with Historic Places. This is an excellent ERIC Digest by Kathleen Hunter from 1994. It deals with teaching K-12 students about history using the local community as a classroom.
Eleven years later, this program stills seems to be in place at the National Parks Service. I am glad to see that. History is boring to most students. Why not make it relevant by connecting the past to the place where students live?
I was bored by history as a student. I vividly remember when I first got interested in the past. My elementary school class went on a trip to see Fort Meigs in Perrysburg, Ohio. I was impressed by both the fort and the old fashioned guns they showed off! And it made me realize that I lived in a historic place that was not that far removed from the frontier days.
From the site:
Our communities are classrooms waiting to be explored; they offer places that are continually shaped and reshaped by our historical experiences and cultural expressions. Some of these places document dramatic events, heroic deeds, creative and technical inventiveness, and the lives of extraordinary men and women. Others reflect the everyday events and patterns of ordinary people over time. Both types of places--the extraordinary and the ordinary--become a part of our local, state, and national heritage.
These kinds of historic places are focal points of a new curriculum project for schools sponsored by the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places and The National Trust for Historic Preservation. These agencies have formed a partnership to offer a program of educational materials and professional training and development for teachers, museum educators, and site interpreters. This ERIC Digest discusses the TEACHING WITH HISTORIC PLACES program, its products, and how they can be used in classrooms and communities by students, teachers, and other interested groups.
- Historic Cities
I found a sharp site that features maps, literature, documents, books, and other materials concerning historic cities around the world. It is Historic Cities. It is a joint project of the Historic Cities Center of the Department of Geography, the Hebrew...
- Walk Through Historic Buildings
Walk Through Historic Buildings - The US National Park Service provides this quick guide to identifying the visual character of a historic building, to be aware of what is important to preserve. It also includes a quiz. One point to remember is that just...
- Heritage Square Museum
Heritage Square Museum A mid-1800s crossroads community in the upstate New York village of Ontario. Tours and activities to educate children and adults about local history by showing the actual buildings and living environments where people worked and...
- Using Primary Sources On The Internet To Teach And Learn History.
Using Primary Sources on the Internet To Teach and Learn History. Primary sources are a good way to teach history. This paper gives some ideas for how to use the Internet to do this. From the site: The Internet enables teachers to enhance the teaching...
- Teaching History In The Elementary School.
Teaching History in the Elementary School. The teaching of history should begin in elementary school. This essay shows why. From the site: Recent studies have shown that the historical knowledge of young Americans is less than most educators and citizens...