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- 4th - 5th
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Students research a given historical event including the people, places, and cultures that were involved in it, and prepare a short skit to perform in front of the rest of the class. Full Review »
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- 4th - 7th
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Students develop a knowledge base about historical events and people. Full Review »
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- 5th - 6th
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Students create postcards from the past by summarizing a historical event. Then they design illustrations for their postcards and send them off to another teacher at their school. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students research historical events and everyday life in Texas in 1836-1837. They write a letter using Mr. Mitchell's perspective. Full Review »
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- 5th - 12th
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Students interview their parents about certain historical events. They take notes and share the interview with the class. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students research a historic event using textbooks, primary source documents, the Internet, and other library and media resources. They take research they have gathered and write an attention-grabbing, historically accurate story. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students recount the circumstances surrounding Paul Revere's ride and compare and contrast Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "Paul Revere's Ride" with the historical event. Students work in groups and review different accounts of the event. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students identify a pivotal event in world history that they would have liked to have witnessed. They then research this event and write a first-person account of it as if they had been present. Their first-prerson account is modeled after an article they read by Richard Berstein on events in Afghanistan. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students create a radio drama based on an event or period in history. After reading and listening to radio plays, they work in groups to select a historical event or period in history to research. They create sound effects, research and write commercials, and record their radio plays using an iPod and a voice recorder to broadcast for the class. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students locate and record information about an eastern North Carolina County by searching for key information on the county. They note one significant historical event that occurred in that county creating a written record and an illustration of the event. Full Review »
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