Local History
A Local History Toolkit
About the project
Teams at LEARN have embarqued on the process of building a collection of guides, tools, strategies and project examples to help you explore the history of your region, all the while in the context of our respective subject areas and fields/scopes of interest.
A fundamental question began our journey: How can learning about local history help me understand myself and my community? For an overview of where and why we began this collection, read our blog entry Learning in Place: Working towards a local history learning toolkit.
The People and Places of Our Community!
Many ways!
There are many ways to begin to think, plan and organize your foray into doing local history with your students!
Visit some tools and ideas at right.
- Empathy Processes - Empathizing is inclusive, because it considers as valuable everyone who lives or has lived in a place.
- Cultural Reflections and Protocols - Familiarizing yourself with issues of cultural understanding and protocols can help.
- Focus Questions - Time periods, issues, events can suggest general and specific questions to ask.
Investigations - Guides and Tools For Research
Finding traces!
In people and places you will find traces, that can provide entry points to learning about a region. You can discover these traces through interviews, through site visits, by examining photographs, documents, objects or artifacts, etc.
Visit some tools and ideas at right.
Local History Projects and Processes
Learning scenarios for making Curriculum Connections and for doing local history within and across your subject-area competencies and other methodologies.
ARTS UDL Local History Activity Models
Click here to view the English version in a separate window. | (Version français ici.)
Digital Competency UDL Local History Activity Models
Browse below, or click here to view our English version in a separate window. Cliquez ici pour la version française.
Step-by-step student checklists are embedded into the five activity models below. Click here to access them in English. In line with UDL, these checklists aim to optimize individual choice and autonomy. Educators can present all five activities. Then, students can select which activity to complete and monitor their individual progress using the checklists.
