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Title: The Historical Perspective


1
The Historical Perspective
  • Diane E. Newby, Ed.D.
  • Professor

2
Child Development and History
  • Children gradually develop the ability to
    understand the past rather than in stages.
  • Research shows children younger than 8 years can
    learn historical concepts.
  • First graders are able to place in sequence
    pictures and explain their rationale for doing so
    - pictures and drawings - either in long ago 1772
    or close to now 2006.

3
  • Kindergarteners, first and second graders have no
    sense of what dates mean.
  • Beginning in fourth grade, dates are useful to
    children, although not until fifth or sixth grade
    do children use dates to identify pictures
    accurately.
  • Young children perceive, first there were
    pioneers, then there were cities.
  • It is difficult for them to perceive that while
    pioneers were building log cabins in the 1880s,
    large cities were being built in other
    geographical areas.

4
Teaching History and the Concept of Time
  • Learning about history requires that children
    develop a sense of the passage of time.
  • Use childrens actual experiences to help them
    develop a sense of the passage of time.
  • What did you do today?
  • How many days has it been since Janices
    birthday?
  • Do you remember what we did to celebrate
    Presidents Day?

5
Developing the Concept of Time
  • By age 5, children can tell what day it is and
    will use general terms such as springtime before
    they will use the general terms such as
  • today
  • before
  • in a few days
  • Routines teach time.

6
Developing the Concept of Time
  • What can you do this year that you could not do
    last year?
  • Start a history booklet in the beginning of the
    year for each child. Include
  • snapshots
  • pieces of work the child has completed
  • paintings or stories created by the child

7
Developing the Concept of Time
  • Children will not be able to measure time
    accurately until after age 8 or 9.
  • Use an hourglass to see if they can wash the
    tables after art work.

8
Hands-on History Activities
  • These activities allow students to become active
    learners of history inside the classroom.
    Children learn best when they play a part of what
    they learn.
  • Mystery Center
  • Visual Resources
  • Pictorial Books
  • Art/Paintings and Drawings
  • Oral History/Story Time

9
Activities
  • Holiday Timeline
  • Family Tree
  • Calendar
  • Daily Schedule
  • Picture Photo Album
  • Cooking Experiences

10
Childrens Literature on Time
  • Richard Scarys Best Times Ever A Book about
    Seasons
  • Just a Minute
  • All of Grandmothers Clocks, Sandra Ziegler
  • Tell Me a Story Mama, Angela Johnson and David
    Soman

11
Integrate Timelines
  • Students can make timelines using personal life
    events.
  • Pictures, video clips, and drawings
  • Famous person timelines
  • Geographical place timeline
  • Literature timelines

12
Recommendations from Zarrillo and National
Standards for History
  • Students should understand
  • family life now and long ago
  • the history of their own local community
  • history of their state
  • causes and nature of various movements of large
    groups of people into the United States and long
    ago
  • folklore and other cultural contributions
  • how democratic values came to be
  • attributes of international societies
  • economic effects of science and technology and
    the inventors responsible for them

13
Concept of Change
  • The study of history is the study of change.
  • Change is universal.
  • No matter where we live or how, change will be
    part of our lives.
  • Encourage students to experience and observe
    change.
  • School -Rearrange the classroom.
  • Observe how the school building looked a few
    years ago.
  • Neighborhood - Observe changes in the
    neighborhood - then and now.

14
References
  • Farris, P. J. (2007). Elementary and middle
    social studies.
  • Boston, MA McGraw Hill.
  • Maxim, George. (2006) Dynamic social studies for
    constructivist
  • classrooms. Upper Saddle River, NJ
    Merrill/Prentice Hall.
  • Zarrillo, J. J. (2008). Teaching elementary
    social studies.
  • Upper Saddle River, NJ
    Merrill/Prentice Hall.
  • Welton, David. (2007). Children and their world.
    Boston, Mass
  • Houghton-Mifflin Company.

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Web Sites
  • The Life of Abraham Lincoln
  • http//www.berwickacademy.org/lincoln/lincoln.htm
  • How to Make a Timeline
  • http//www.dohistory.org/on_your_own/toolkit/timel
    ine.html
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