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Informationen zum Autor Ronald Vaughan Morris teaches graduate and undergraduate students methods of elementary social studies at Ball State University. He is the author of Drama in Elementary and Middle School Social Studies, The Field Trip Book: Study Travel Experience in Social Studies, Bringing History to Life:First Person Presentations in Elementary,and Middle School Social Studies, as well as the co-author of 50 Social Studies Strategies for K-8 Classrooms (third edition). Klappentext In History and Imagination, elementary school social studies teachers will learn how to help their students break down the walls of their schools, more personally engage with history, and define democratic citizenship. By collaborating together in meaningful investigations into the past and reenacting history, students will become experts who interpret their findings, teach their peers, and relate their experiences to those of older students, neighbors, parents, and grandparents. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. Historical Reenactment for Children Chapter 2. How Teachers Can Conduct Historical Reenactments in Their Own Schools Chapter 3. Contrasting the French with the British in North America: Establishing Community within a Fifth Grade Historical Reenactment Chapter 4. Pioneer Diversity and Dissenters Day Chapter 5. Community Celebrations and History Participation Chapter 6. Learning from a Community Festival or Reenactment Chapter 7. Historical Reenactment at a Living History Site Chapter 8. Extra-Curricular Social Studies at the Conner Prairie Interpretive Park Chapter 9. Huddleston Farmhouse 1860 Victorian Life Day Camp Chapter 10. Integrating Music and Social Studies in an Extra-Curricular Activity: The Voyageur Ancient Fife and Drum Corps Chapter 11. Conclusions About the Author
