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Publication Date: 1997
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Hometown Discovery: Learning Locally, Thinking Globally.
Churchwell, Gordon; Weller, Cyril J.; Sommer, Peter
T.H.E. Journal, v25 n1 p43-46 Aug 1997
Describes Hometown Discovery, a project where high school students created interactive, interdisciplinary multimedia learning presentations for fourth-grade students on local history. Topics include discovery learning; community-based collaboration; community as content and production resource; leveraged learning; modular production; students as educators; and future applications. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Futures (of Society), Grade 4, Interdisciplinary Approach, Learning, Learning Strategies, Local History, Multimedia Instruction, Multimedia Materials, Production Techniques, School Community Relationship, Secondary School Students, Student Developed Materials, Student Role
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Language: English
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