Category:  Education/Training
Publisher: Heinemann
Copyright: Jan 1 2003

In this practical guidebook, Douglas Selwyn and Jan Maher propose a different way of teaching history—start from today and keep asking questions. As students investigate possible answers, they make connections across miles and centuries. Along the way, they experience that essential insight of the social studies: Point of view has everything to do with how one perceives the world.

To this end, each chapter explores a particular kind of project that is centered on students' concerns, but connected to core curriculum content and concepts in history, geography, civics, and economics. Projects include timelines, collages, photodocumentaries, and more. While students dig deeply into issues of personal relevance, they also master the content and skills mandated in state and national standards. Students learn about history—and about themselves.