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Visiting and Interviewing Older Adults: Service-Learning in the Sixth Grade

Submitted by Steven Lapham on Fri, 08/14/2009 - 2:35pm

--Alison Parker
Oral history interviews give deeper meaning to visits with the elderly, strengthening the academic content of service learning.
Also includes "Preparing Young People for Longer Lives in an Aging Society" by Donna P. Couper and Fran Pratt.

This URL downloads all 16 pages of Middle Level Learning as a pdf of about 0.65 MB:
* http://members.ncss.org/mll/15/mll15.pdf [1]

Source URL: http://www.socialstudies.org/teacherslibrary/visiting-and-interviewing-older-adults-service-learning-sixth-grade

Links:
[1] http://members.ncss.org/mll/15/mll15.pdf
[2] http://www.socialstudies.org/category/historical-period/recent-times
[3] http://www.socialstudies.org/category/journal/middle-level-learning
[4] http://www.socialstudies.org/elementary
[5] http://www.socialstudies.org/middlelevel
[6] http://www.socialstudies.org/secondaryhighschool
[7] http://www.socialstudies.org/ushistory