Halcyon Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 the Stanford History Education group has a 75 lesson course, complete with lesson plans, primary documents, and more tha looks very interesting. Has anyone used it? It is for upper middle school, it seems. Looks very interesting. http://sheg.stanford.edu/?q=node/45 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kokotg Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 ooh! It does look interesting. Might be just what I need for my 6th grader this year :) thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halcyon Posted July 31, 2012 Author Share Posted July 31, 2012 I thought it looked pretty good! I am going to peruse it tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang!Zoom! Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 (edited) Thanks Halcyon, going to give it a look over this morning. :) edit/update: Halcyon, I went over to the expansion portion. There were downloads there, questions (specifically related to Lewis/Clark) - 2 things. I found that the primary resources, though accurate- were one sided views- did not allow two cultural comparisons; in this case, the views of NA were just not present, it was all ..from the POV of the European advance; so I found it it a bit unbalanced. The other thing was that it required group discussion, also a subscription to Discovery streaming videos for the background in order to answer the questions. So, all total, it's not going to be a good fit here. There may be more/different types of plans etc., within it, this was the only one I looked at though. Edited July 31, 2012 by one*mom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kokotg Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 If you look at the next two after that....the one on Nat Turner and the one on Indian Removal, you definitely get culturally/ethnically varied perspectives in the primary documents (I'm wondering if a lack of written records is an issue with some of the earlier topics dealing with native americans) I can see it working as a socratic dialogue sort of thing rather than group discussion, though group discussion would probably be ideal. Now I'm contemplating teaching it in a co-op setting later this year. Which is probably crazy because I'm also planning on giving birth later this year..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenNC Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 It looks very similar to the Critical Thinking in US History series from Critical Thinking Press (but free :001_smile:). I'll have to take a look at how it compares with the volume I have here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pen Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Looks good! Thanks for posting that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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