Are We There Yet?

Introducing History to

Third Graders

by Mary L. Mann

Summer Fellowship 2006

Champaign County Historical Archives

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Lesson Six:

Culminating Activity

Send home a letter to parents stating the expectations for this assignment:

* The students are expected to inquire about their own history and find evidence for the events in their history in the form of a photograph, an artifact, and a written document

(a written document might be a note, a letter, a certificate of some kind; a photograph might be a family picture, a school picture, a sport event, a baby picture; an artifact might be anything that the student made or used)

*Students are expected to complete the 3 Analysis Worksheets and turn in both worksheets and evidence [photo, artifact, document]