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ERIC Number: EJ627245
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-1056-0300
The Garbers: Using Digital History To Recreate a 19th-Century Family.
Mason, Cheryl L.; Carter, Alice
Social Studies and the Young Learner, v12 n1 p11-14 Sep-Oct 1999
Describes a lesson in which students read a letter from the Web site "Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities during the American Civil War," an interactive archive of digitized primary sources. Students search the site's 1860 population census to learn about Thomas Garber and his family. Students also learn about life in the 19th century. (CMK)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Strategies, Elementary Education, Family History, Group Activities, Historical Interpretation, Internet, Knowledge Level, Letters (Correspondence), Primary Sources, Social History, Social Studies
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Web Sites
Note: See the "Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities during the American Civil War" Web site at http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/.