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Peer reviewedPhilbin, Meg; Myers, Jeanette S. – Social Studies, 1991
Suggests promoting student critical thinking and motivation through the dramatization of U.S. history. Explains that the exercises make use of old newspaper articles, diaries, and letters, as well as physical artifact facsimiles. Discusses an activity in which students acted out the formation of the Iroquois nation, then wrote first person…
Descriptors: American Indian History, Critical Thinking, Drama, Elementary Education
