History at Hinsdale Central High · John Naisbitt and Kris DuRocher Wilson

History at Hinsdale Central High
John Naisbitt and Kris DuRocher Wilson

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• The GK-12 Program

For the 2003-2004 school year the GK-12 program, supported a collaboration between John Naisbitt, a teacher at Hinsdale Central High School and Kris DuRocher Wilson a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Illinois, at Urbana Champaign. This website is contains the activities and materials created throughout this project.

These lessons area available for educational use and intended as a resource for teachers and educators.

• Our Goals

Our goals for this school year were to help students understand history through primary sources, to involve and excite them about the past, to develop critical thinking skills, and to integrate technology and multimedia teaching and learning into this process.

• History Project Outlines

Primary Source Introductory Handouts and Projects

Primary source slavery exercise

PowerPoint presentation on Andrew Jackson

Online database research handout

Care and handling of rare books handout

The Civil War: A Multi-media Project

A group project using the online primary source databases of the Library of Congress and The Valley of the Shadow Collection

Early Industrial Life: A Primary Source Investigation

An examination of industrialization based on 1884 census data for ethnic laborers in Chicago, Illinois

Early Twentieth Century Material Culture

A "choose-your-own-adventure" project examining multiple sites of popular culture from 1900-1930

World War I: Using Primary Sources

A more complicated project based on the model developed for the Civil War

World War II: Creating Primary Sources

Oral interviews of World War II veterans

• Comments, Questions, Suggestions?

Please email kris_durocher@yahoo.com

Thank you!

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