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Lights, Camera, . . . Reenaction! Creating Video as We Study the Civil War

Submitted by Steven Lapham on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 11:25am

--Angela Stokes
A video project challenges students to read, research, and interpret historical sources, then create a short drama that reflects their understanding of events. Journey through Hallowed Ground sponsored this project, but you can do a low-budget version at your school.

http://publications.socialstudies.org/mll/43/MLL43.pdf [1]

This PDF downloads a 16-page issue of MLL, about 3 megabytes.

Source URL: http://www.socialstudies.org/teacherslibrary/lights_camera_reenaction_creating_video_as_we_study_the_civil_war

Links:
[1] http://publications.socialstudies.org/mll/43/MLL43.pdf
[2] http://www.socialstudies.org/category/historical-period/cilvi-war
[3] http://www.socialstudies.org/category/journal/middle-level-learning
[4] http://www.socialstudies.org/middlelevel
[5] http://www.socialstudies.org/ushistory