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eBooks
 Motivating
Students Through Genealogy
Flexibly
Designed for Middle School through Advanced High School
Even the most exciting events, people, books, or ideas can be boring
to students if the information has no meaning for them. Also, the
best lesson plans complemented by technology or new teaching techniques
will fail if studentsn do not connect to the material. The researching
of one's family history overcomes this dilemma in a very effective
manner. This book will show you how to encourage your students to
investigate their families and their legacies as a part of any curriculum.
Along with a guide to the twelve steps of a genealogy portfolio this
book includes 15 lesson plans complemented by readings, worksheets,
internet sites, and genealogy charts. Buy this eBook from Fictionwise.com | About Fictionwise.com
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Genealogy Notebook
Flexibly
Designed for Middle School through Advanced High School
The Genealogy Notebook is a family history organizer. The notebook
is divided into sections focusing on a family member; father, mother,
and grandparents on both sides of the ancestral tree. Each family
group includes worksheets to record vital statistics, family timelines,
treasured moments and, finally, a section to write a biography on
that person. Each section is then grouped by a summarizing Family
Group worksheet and Ancestral Chart. This notebook will help your
students keep vital statistics on their family history as well as
interesting facts they will want to preserve for future generations.
The Genealogy Notebook concludes with a section called Grandparents
and Beyond. This section includes an article on how to find information
on their ancestors as well as Genealogy Charts which will aid them
in the process. Buy this eBook from Fictionwise.com | About Fictionwise.com
All
History is Local: The complete Guide to teaching U.S. History through
local primary sources
Flexibly
Designed for Middle School through Advanced High School
 Textbooks,
by definition, are a survey of historical facts. They are an excellent
compilation of causes and effects, maps, facts and figures but they
rarely tell a "story" that is meaningful to most people--
especially teenagers. Noted historian and best-selling author David
McCullough spent ten years researching his Pulitzer Prize winning
book Truman and six years on his recent best seller John Adams. Yet
he doesn't consider himself a historian-he considers himself a storyteller.
Relatedly, we should teach our students in the same manner--history
should be taught as a story. Yet it is not a story that should be
told TO your students, it is a story that should be created BY your students through investigation, problem solving and, finally, writing. In other
words, your students should not only become the storytellers but the
creators of the story. Textbooks do not accomplish this goal as they
often over-generalize history and certainly do not personalize important
events. History books are excellent resources but they should not
be the center of your students' learning.
Your students' approach to learning history should be the same approach
a detective uses to investigate crimes: 1) gather all the facts; 2)
solve unanswered questions; and 3) compile all the facts so that the
truth is identified. The approach of this book is very similar to
the detective. Your students, by using local primary resources, investigates
"history". Through researching historical information and
then solving unanswered questions they discover the real .story..one
that is personal, interesting, and often left out of the history textbooks.
This method involves original research, writing, and imagination.
It allows your students to follow their personal interests and learn
core content material at the same time.
In the Local History Research Project your students choose a person
from your town (or family tree) who served in the American Revolution,
Civil War, WWI, or WWII (or any war or event since WWII). Any time
period can be used for this project, but for the purposes of this
book the best primary sources available are usually connected to the
military. Certainly, the history of the United States can be told
through military conflicts as almost every generation has experienced
war since the American Revolution. Once the soldier or event is identified
your students will gather and analyze sources on this person (or event)
and then tell their story through writing a creative nonfiction biography.
This is a flexible project that can be modified to meet the needs
of many different types of learners. This book will guide you and
your students through this process. Buy this eBook from Fictionwise.com | About Fictionwise.com
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