How Do You Make History Come Alive For Students?
History can be found in books, videos, and photographs. Don’t let your history lesson plans be as stagnant as a statue. Bring history to life in your classroom. Bring history alive through a Living History Museum-The gym was filled with students dress like foreigners, standing with their arms by their sides. When a visitor stopped in front of them, they became animate and assumed the identity of someone from a foreign country. They shared information about themselves and their country. When they finished, they returned to their inanimate state. Use field trips. Go and see those historical sites. Study the site before you go and let them “discover” the history for themselves. It is one thing to discuss how the world was when dinosaurs roamed the earth. It is quite another to stand under the statue of one of these giants. Create a tableau. Begin your lesson plan by selecting photographs of historical statues or from the time in history you are studying. Have the students research and rea
