Introduction
This paper will offer strategies, methods, and approaches to making US History fun.
Task
Reading and Writing.
Students will be able to evaluate historical events of US History from the Civil War to WW1.
Process
Building background knowledge.
KWL Charts.
Slide show presentation.
Read a primary source in groups.
Report findings to class.
Visit local museums.
Invite a guest speaker.
Write a letter to local and state government.
Getting involved in your community.
Creating connections.
Collaborate.
Evaluation
Assessment questions.
Exit Ticket.
GIST.
Conclusion
Topic that can be difficult to understand can be presented in way that everyone understands.
"Engaging with history is a popular experience. It is popular in the sense that it is widespread and has huge appeal. It involves a variety of activities that include visiting museums and heritage sites, watching history programmes on television, collecting antiques and compiling a family history. Over the past thirty years, the development of popular interest in the past, in these and many other ways, has grown up alongside the development in academic life of a sceptical questioning of the value of historical enquiry and a drastic suspicion about the very grounds on which history is represented."
Credits
Pickering, M. (2008). Engaging with History. In M. Pickering (Ed.), Research Methods for Cultural Studies (pp. 193–213). Edinburgh University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1g0b2nv.14
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