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DLM Index feature: "The Worker Experience and the Great Depression".
This month's featured resource
was created by the California Heritage Project, with support from
the Interactive University.
This lesson is designed to introduce the concept of primary sources
in the study of history; to engage students in the examination of
primary sources; to prompt students to think critically about the
source, context, and point of view when encountering primary sources.
It geared to high school students, and meets social studies, history
and geography standards.
Browse the IU's Digital Learning Materials
where you will find a wide spectrum of lesson plans developed over the
past five years by Internet Learning Community
Projects.
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On February
6th, teachers and curriculum specialists from Oakland came to the Berkeley campus
for the third in a series of four workshops that explore the history and literature
of 20th Century Mexico. This professional development study group represents
an evolution in Oakland's Urban Dreams Project in the area of faculty/teacher
exchange and resource development; it offers teachers and curriculum specialists
a chance to refresh and extend their learning and teaching skills, while at
the same time creating—as a direct outcome of work done to prepare for the workshop
presentations—a resource set of materials to support instruction in high school
Social Studies and English. This series of workshops on Mexican culture is being
led by Alex Saragoza, professor of Ethnic and Chicano studies at Berkeley.
The current
workshop series is the initial example of a model the IU/Urban
Dreams partnership plans to offer teachers and curriculum specialists covering
additional social studies themes; the model provides a creative opportunity
in three key areas of curriculum and professional development: a Berkeley faculty
member organizes, presents, and with technical assistance, archives digital
and traditional resources; teachers in workshops are exposed to the material
and provided context, framework and leading questions in the area of the faculty
member's expertise; a lasting digital resource set is created—which, in the
fully implemented program, will be comprised of video tapes and transcribed
written accounts of the sessions, sources for materials such as samples and
references, links to digital resources in museums and libraries, and an archive
of course digital materials—all available for future reuse and dissemination.
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. . Continue on to the IU
News March 2003 page to read more about the Urban
Dreams work group on Mexican history and literature.
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