Exploring the History of a Neighborhood: A Community Project.

Carroll, Rives

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ERIC Number: EJ322803

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1985

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Exploring the History of a Neighborhood: A Community Project.

Carroll, Rives

Social Studies, v76 n4 p150-54 Jul-Aug 1985

Describes a year-and-a-half-long history project that involved elementary students in exploring their community's past. Students took field trips, interviewed community persons, taped oral histories, painted murals, and produced a dramatic musical based on their community's history. (RM)

Descriptors: Art Education, Community Study, Course Descriptions, Elementary Education, Field Trips, History Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, Interviews, Local History, Music Education, Oral History, Painting (Visual Arts), Program Descriptions, Social Studies

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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