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Green, Robert P. Jr.; Coviello, Robert E. – Social Science Record, 1984
A serious academic curriculum must ask students, particularly in high school, to critically analyze and evaluate primary sources of information. How a lesson was developed around conflicting Senate testimony over the 1892 Homestead Steel Strike is described. Teachers can easily produce such lessons. (RM)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, High Schools, History Instruction
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Hewett, Marie – Social Science Record, 1980
Cites ways in which antique toys can contribute to a positive feeling among students toward urban high schools. Evidence is based on a program in which students were directed to bring a favorite childhood toy of theirs or their parents or grandparents to class. Students then researched toy use, manufacture, country of origin, and technology used…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Environment, High School Students, Secondary Education
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Sipher, Roger – Social Science Record, 1974
An economics course for senior high school students which relies on cameras and cassette tape recorders in one locally developed project is described. A second is the effort by another high school to indicate a social studies curriculum meaningfully related to the real world. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Economics Education, Educational Objectives
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Baker, Patricia E. – Social Science Record, 1984
A teacher-developed moral dilemma that can be used to help elementary students make judgments based on values of civic responsibility is presented. Teachers can use the dilemma as a model for developing other dilemmas relevant to their students and schools. (RM)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Citizenship Responsibility, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education