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Aiding Our Students to Interpret History

This guide equips educators with innovative strategies to help elementary students interpret history effectively. It includes methods such as integrating the arts, conducting field trips (both physical and virtual), and incorporating simulations to foster engagement. Various resources like multimedia, graphic organizers, and primary source access are emphasized to enhance historical understanding. Teachers can facilitate discussions, utilize webquests, and employ historical fiction to deepen students' connections with historical content. This guide is essential for promoting historical empathy and thinking skills.

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Aiding Our Students to Interpret History

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  1. Aiding Our Students to Interpret History Ch. 5 Elementary Social Studies A Practical Guide June R. Chapin Adapted by Lee-Anne T. Spalding, M Ed. 1917 Pioneer Log Cabin Barberville (Deland), FL 2-09

  2. NAEP Results • Fourth Graders: • 66 % understood the symbolism of the Statue of liberty Fourth Grade Immigration Unit • 35 % explained how two inventions changed life in the U. S. A. http://members.ncss.org/yl/0703/070307.html • 24 % explained why people settled on the Western Frontier American Memory Teacher Pages • Eighth Graders 64 % identified an impact of the cotton gin • 43 % explained goals of the marches led by MLK Jr. • 1 % explained how the fall of the Berlin Wall affected foreign policy

  3. Quality History Instruction for ALL • Help your students by: • Integrating the arts (art, music, movement, drama) Drama sample: Dramatic Reenactment using photos/ill. • Going on field trips, using virtual field trips, and sharing REAL artifacts Virtual tour sample: http://www.fordstheatre.org/virtual-tour.html • Encouraging and incorporating simulations into your lesson plans (medieval life, pioneer living, etc.) • Using multiple media; DVD’s, podcasts, YOU Tube or Teacher Tube clips, digital storytelling, computer software programs (Kidspiration, Oregon Trail…) Digital Field trip Storytelling sample: Pioneer Settlement

  4. History Definitions & Issues • Look in Ch. 5 to find these definitions… • Historical understanding • Forrest Gump and historical understanding? • Sense of history • Perspective-taking • Empathy • Historical thinking skills

  5. Primary vs. Secondary SourcesHow to use PRIMARY sources

  6. Accessing Prior Knowledge • Graphic Organizers • K-W-”H”-L charts • KWHL instructions and sample • Anticipation/Reaction Guides • Dinosaur Sample Anticipation Guide • Class discussion • Brainstorm independent lists • Name 5 things you know about…then underline the two most important items listed; modify lesson plan accordingly

  7. The Holiday Curriculum Revisited • Myra Cohn resources: • Webquests: SanDiego State Webquest Site MLK Jr. WebQuest Grade 3-5

  8. Quality Literature Revisited • Magic Tree House Dinosaurs Before Dark WebQuest • Series like: Magic Tree House, Dear America • Biographies • Non Fiction • Historical Fiction • How can you use them?

  9. Trade Book and History • Using Historical Fiction to teach: • Historical content • Historical insight • Historical accuracy • Relevancy • Literature Skills • WRITING Skills (samples)

  10. In review… • Oral history assignments • Graphic organizers (www.readwritethink.org) • Historical objects/artifacts • Museums!!!! Field trip/virtual • Dinner Party Project? P. 173 • Chronology and timelines; kidspiration software

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