Ideas for teaching kids to Seek, Discover, and Look at Michigan's History.
We know history, and we know that as a teacher, you know that history is important. Convincing your third-graders, however, is often less of a non-issue. For those young minds that are perhaps less partial to the past, we present: a collection of books that will help you get your students off their [...]
At the museum, we see lots of different kinds of people filling the role of ‘group leader’. We see teachers, parents, big sisters, that big kid in the fourth grade… Whoever you are, if you’re leading a group of students on a tour through the museum, you may want to boost your confidence before [...]
Here we’ve made a list of books for not just young readers, but also the especially young readers–these books are probably only going to be stimulating for kids twelve and under, and some of them only for six and under. These books begin to cross the genres of history and ‘Early Readers’. They [...]
These books have been chosen as a critical mass of literature concerning Michigan’s dense history in order to narrow the playing field for teachers who find themselves overwhelmed by an academic atmosphere drenched with pop-history. There are so many books around today that wading through the multitude of books and journals to determine which ones [...]
