Creating Biography Webs to Investigate Individuals' Historical Contexts

Autor/inn/en	Fertig, Gary; Silverman, Rick
Titel	Creating Biography Webs to Investigate Individuals' Historical Contexts
Quelle	In: Social Education, 73 (2009) 5, S.244-246 (3 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0037-7724
Schlagwörter	Biographies; History Instruction; Cooperative Learning; Problem Solving; Accountability; Teaching Methods; Photography + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Biography; Biografie; Biographie; History lessons; Geschichtsunterricht; Kooperatives Lernen; Problemlösen; Verantwortung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Fotografie
Abstract	Biographies, which are popular among young people, can stimulate interest in the past when students investigate the historical contexts in which individuals lived. Creating biography webs offers students structured opportunities to investigate how other people and groups influenced the personal development of specific individuals (NCSS Strands II, III, IV, and V). Students work in pairs to complete five activities that require active problem solving and decision making. They work as partners to determine the most effective means for displaying their learning while also educating their peers. The five products students create during these activities are mounted on standard-sized foam board. Although pairs collaborate to learn about the same individual in history, each student creates his or her own biography web to ensure individual accountability, promote deliberation, and provide opportunities for all students to interpret and make use of historical evidence. As a culminating activity, partners present their biography webs to the class and combine them to create a classroom timeline. Creating biography webs helps students recognize that individuals do have the agency to make history, particularly when they worked with others who had similar goals. However, the values, beliefs, and attitudes that individuals acquired were given form and substance by the times in which they lived and by the specific institutions and events they experienced. (Contains 4 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10