Good morning, how are you? I wanted to share our series of sharing Homeschool Resources: Geography & Social Studies with you. Would you take a look at the homeschool resources I’ve shared with you and let me know if you’ve used these with your students or not.
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William & Mary, Univ. of KY & Library of Congress: Be A History Detective– Grades 6-12, approximately, with parental supervision
The Historical Scene Investigation (H.S.I.) website provides social studies students with the opportunity to become virtual history detectives. Students investigate prepared “case files” about historical events by examining primary source materials such as journals, diaries, artifacts, historic sites, works of art, quantitative data, and other evidence from the past.
Then, students compare the multiple points of view of the people who were on the scene at the time.
Developed in partnership with the College of William & Mary School of Education, University of Kentucky School of Education, and the Library of Congress, H.S.I. is an effort to take students beyond textbook facts and give them “experiences that more closely resemble the work of a real historian.”
When you get to the website you’ll see a menu that offers information about the H.S.I. Project and a link to the “Investigations” that include:
- Jamestown Starving Time
- Bacon’s Rebellion
- The Boston “Massacre”
- Lexington & Concord
- Constitution Controversy
- Antonio A Slave
- Finding Aaron
- Children in the Civil War
- School Desegregation
- Dropping the Bomb
- Case of Sam Smiley
- March on Frankfort
- When Elvis Met Nixon
Click on any “case file” and a new page opens with a description of the historic event and a question for the student to answer through investigating documents. Click on “Student View” to read the documents and access a series of questions that guide the student in analyzing the information in order to crack the case.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
