Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ425025
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1990
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ISSN: ISSN-0882-228X
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Walking Tours for Teaching Urban History in Boston and Other Cities.
Holton, William
OAH Magazine of History, v5 n2 p14-19 Fall 1990
Recommends integrating urban history curricular concepts into walking tours. Uses an ecosystem model, combining factors of population, environment, and technology to teach these concepts. Suggests study questions be prepared for tours such as the South End Walking Tour in Boston to teach concepts by experiencing them in the urban environment. Recommends specific tours. (NL)
Descriptors: Built Environment, Class Activities, Concept Teaching, Discovery Learning, Economics, Experiential Learning, Field Trips, Heritage Education, History Instruction, Human Geography, Nontraditional Education, Primary Sources, Secondary Education, Social Change, Social History, Social Studies, Sociocultural Patterns, Teaching Guides, United States History, Urban Studies
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Massachusetts (Boston)
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