ESLR #4
Historically-Aware Learners who:
-Have an understanding of
the history and cultures of mankind
-Know and articulate the democratic principles of our society
Practical ideas and
suggestion to meet this goal:
-Create
a time line
-Post
History time lines around the house
-Read
various articles (US News, National Geographic etc)
-Read
historical fiction: you can attain a booklist from the library, and various
bookstores
-Attend
living history field trips: Re-enactment of famous battles and events.
-Attend
various fairs: Renaissance, Dickens etc
-Participate
in local government council (they have programs for teens)
-Attend
field trip to the Capitol
-Watch
some of the programs from the history channel
-Internet
research and doing powerpoint and/or posterboard and then oral presentations
-Historical
songs and stories on CD's
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Unit Studies
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Watching the news with parents and discussing daily events
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Journaling from daily news topics
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Checking out library videos on historical people such as: Civil War,
- Visit the state capital,
state and regional museums & park. – Sutter’s Fort, Coloma, missions,
etc.
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Check for special events such as the Living History Days at Sutter’s Fort
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Take tours (for example, San Francisco’s China Town has a wonderful group
of local tour guides, each of whom has a unique presentation of historical
information based on individual/family/community experience and knowledge.)
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Memorize the Preamble to the Constitution, the beginning of the Declaration
of Independence, etc.
-Try
to pass a citizenship test
-Virtual
“Field Trips” such as museums
-Reading
political pamphlets
-Writing
to Pen Pals in different states and countries
-Cultural
Cooking
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Election- Volunteer at a campaign headquarters
-Mock
voting was held at area learning centers
-Watch
the evening news or the quick synopsis of headlines on morning news shows
-Write
persuasive papers about events in history, taking a side.
-Create
videos, acting out historical events
-Research
a place and its culture before visiting then write about the experience after
the trip
-Virtual
Field Trips online: www.field-guides.com (40 free virtual
trips)
-Visit
local historical museum in your city
-Do
a geneology search
-Interview
grandparents or other older friends about a period of history they lived
through. Tape it for future.
-Language
study of different countries and how they say simple words differently like
“Hello” and “Goodbye”
Curriculum Suggestions:
-Great
Books website has incredible amount of resources especially for HS
-Home
Learners has novels in bundles focusing on various historical periods
-GA
Henty Books
-Oxford
Press publishes History of US: series of books, very informative, geared for middle
school/high school
-History
of US comes in videos, CDs and has reinforcement workbooks.
-Blue
Stocking Press has incredible collection of historical audiotapes.
-Read
Redwall Series (videos are also available)
-Rainbow
Resources: What in the World is Happening?, Genevive Foster, History Pockets
-Tom
Snyder Productions- History Timeliner CD
-Story
of the World Book K-3: Great Hall Publications
-Time
Travelers K-3: Usborne
-JackDaw
Publication- History packets (supplemental)
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Story of the World from Rainbow or Eagles Nest. 1-6th grade. This gets the
parents involved.
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King Fisher History as a reference
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CPB Site website a link from our CWCS page
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Virtual Field Trips
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Oregon Trails CD’s
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Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? computer game
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Read historical novels and biographies
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Watch PBS, the History Channel, Biography
-Purchase
videos of the above programming (for instance, “The Civil War” by Ken Burns),
or by other groups/vendors (see below)
-Bluestocking
Press
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Netflix (not a vendor) has many historical movies and videos, if families
subscribe to that service
-People's
History of US (10 book series)
-Uncle
Eric Books
-Famous
Men Series
-Jackdaw
Publications
-Adventure
Tales of
-Scholastic
Instructor Books- Colonies
-Glencoe-
Holocaust unit with workbook and video
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Pathways- good coverage, especially in High School Government and History
courses
-Accent
on Composers (Alfred’s Music) puts composers in historical
-Glencoe
has online tests to take and correct online for their texts
-Timelines-
make timelines with all material learned in Science, Social Studies, English,
Music,
etc. Helps students see each event in contextof
history. (Eagle’s Nest & Rainbow Resource)
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“You Decide - Applying the Bill of Rights to Real Cases” presents the various
amendments and then gives the student a real case and has them apply the Bill
of Rights to that case. Available through
Critical Thinking Books and Software.
-Usborne
books like Children of the World, Geography games, maps, puzzles, and
electronic toys