local history

Offers teachers practical suggestions, exercises, short answer assessments, and creative projects that can be used to help students develop connections to their communities. Includes a CD with additional resources.

Activities and projects, such as making time capsules and rubbings and tracing genealogy, demonstrate that learning about the past begins at home.

Offers instructions on researching and writing about events in local history. Includes suggestions for projects.

Includes creating a contour map and model of your town, making a "patchwork quilt" of local history, researching the history of a place name, and preparing family trees and time lines.

Presents activities and projects, such as making time capsules and rubbings and tracing genealogy, which demonstrate that learning about the past begins at home.