Storykeepers teaches students how to do historical research based on their family stories. Units include genealogy and family trees; photography, where students do detective work by looking at fashion, hairstyles, etc.; primary/secondary sources; Town Clerk records; artifacts; census records; other online research such as findagrave, Chronicling America (newspaper archives), vermontcivilwar.org, and ancestryclassroom. Students choose their person to research, three tools of research, and culminating activity, i.e. poster, Powerpoint presentation, scrapbook, etc.
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