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Download full textMendosa, Mitch – 1999
In this grade 5 social studies and language arts interdisciplinary unit, students are required to investigate key battles in the Revolutionary War for independence. Working in groups, students research eight battles to try to determine which was the most important battle leading up to victory for the U.S. colonists. The battles to be investigated…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Colonial History (United States), Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedBrooks, Michael – OAH Magazine of History, 1997
Recounts the experiences of a California middle school class that produces an ongoing magazine of oral histories. The multilingual, multicultural, working-class students have interviewed hundreds of participants. In the process they have learned how to research, interview, transcribe, and publish. Includes sample transcripts from the magazine.…
Descriptors: Family History, Historiography, History Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach
