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ERIC Number: EJ565808
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-0037-7724
The Oregon Trail: Wyoming Students Construct a CD-ROM.
Holt, Pol William
Social Education, v62 n1 p41-45 Jan 1998
Describes the work of four Wyoming high school students who created a CD-ROM collection of Oregon Trail documents for use by fourth graders. The students reviewed 60 boxes of diaries, government documents, prints, and artifacts, becoming historians themselves as they created the electronic database. Includes photographs and illustrations. (MJP)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Constructivism (Learning), Database Design, Databases, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 4, Instructional Innovation, Learning Processes, Migration, Multimedia Materials, Optical Data Disks, Social Studies, Student Developed Materials, Student Projects, United States History
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Oregon Trail; Wyoming