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From: Ann Mitchell <amitch>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:14:34 -0400
I am inclined to agree with Monica. I was the librarian for many years at a school with an excellent history curriculum, and I worked with a fifth-grade teacher to select picture books that could be used by fifth-graders as part of a unit on World War II. The unit also included non-fiction books. I don't have access to the specific titles, but we felt that this approach gave students age 10 or 11 a good understanding of a topic that would not have had such meaning at an earlier age.
Ann Mitchell retired from Shorewood School District Shorewood, Wisconsin
>
> I think there is a distinct developmental trajectory in terms of
> historical understanding. Introducing ideas, concepts, and
> information before children are ready developmentally to make
> significant sense of them means they are only gaining a superficial
> and simplistic understandings. They can also become unnnecessarily
> frightened as well as create profound misunderstandings in their minds
> just because they are not ready and have not been given enough
> information and so fill in the gaps themselves in their own minds.
>
> The US Holocaust Museum has an excellent teacher's guide and annotated
> bibliography. (http://www.ushmm.org/education/foreducators/)
> Monica
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:14:34 -0400
I am inclined to agree with Monica. I was the librarian for many years at a school with an excellent history curriculum, and I worked with a fifth-grade teacher to select picture books that could be used by fifth-graders as part of a unit on World War II. The unit also included non-fiction books. I don't have access to the specific titles, but we felt that this approach gave students age 10 or 11 a good understanding of a topic that would not have had such meaning at an earlier age.
Ann Mitchell retired from Shorewood School District Shorewood, Wisconsin
>
> I think there is a distinct developmental trajectory in terms of
> historical understanding. Introducing ideas, concepts, and
> information before children are ready developmentally to make
> significant sense of them means they are only gaining a superficial
> and simplistic understandings. They can also become unnnecessarily
> frightened as well as create profound misunderstandings in their minds
> just because they are not ready and have not been given enough
> information and so fill in the gaps themselves in their own minds.
>
> The US Holocaust Museum has an excellent teacher's guide and annotated
> bibliography. (http://www.ushmm.org/education/foreducators/)
> Monica
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