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Teaching with historic sites

Teaching with historic sites. Danice Toyias, MCHCE Biographies of the Nation, June 17-20, 2013 Great Falls, MT. Why teach about place?. Historic sites enable our students to be inspired by the same surroundings that inspired those from long ago. Place intersects time and space.

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Teaching with historic sites

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  1. Teaching with historic sites Danice Toyias, MCHCE Biographies of the Nation, June 17-20, 2013 Great Falls, MT

  2. Why teach about place? • Historic sites enable our students to be inspired by the same surroundings that inspired those from long ago. • Place intersects time and space.

  3. Things to Consider….. • Teaching with Historic Places encompasses a wide range of locations and types of sites. • Some may be preserved to maintain their historic importance. • Some may be lost in our historical memory. • Some may have historical significance with contemporary use—and its modern necessity may have overruled its historic worth.

  4. Focus of this presentation • How to use historical thinking skills to analyze historic sites. • How to source a site like a primary source. • Content gathering for our trip to Malmstrom. • Practical application through our field experience. • Extension through our guest speaker. • Discussion of ways to integrate into our classrooms.

  5. Focus: Malmstrom Air Force BaseApplication: Historical Thinking Skills • First Step: SOURCING (Applied to a historical site) • What is the site called? (Include all names for it.) • Where is it located? • When was it created? • Who created it? • What kind of site is it? • How was it created? • We won’t be asking the “Why” questions until we contextualize the site.

  6. Focus: Malmstrom Air Force BaseApplication: Historical Thinking Skills • Second Step: CONTEXTUALIZATION (Place the site in time and space.) • When was it used? • What was its initial purpose? • Is the site still being used today? • What is it being used for now? • If is is still in use, how is it being used now? • Why was it created?

  7. Questions and Highlights Things to consider before Step Three: • Many places are created and used for multiple purposes by multiple people. • Why might one narrative be louder than the others? • Highlight important people, places, dates, and other items that will help guide you as you study the site further.

  8. Focus: Malmstrom Air Force BaseApplication: Historical Thinking Skills • Third Step: INTERROGATE • Ask questions! • What information would you like to know more about? • Seek out primary and secondary sources that will help answer your questions. • Do more background reading if necessary.

  9. Focus: Malmstrom Air Force BaseApplication: Historical Thinking Skills • Fourth Step: CORROBORATE • Seek out primary and secondary sources that support one another to ensure an accurate understanding. • List differences in conclusions among the sources. • Try to determine why there are differences. • Can those differences be reconciled?

  10. Focus: Malmstrom Air Force BaseApplication: Historical Thinking Skills • Fifth Step: CONCLUSIONS • Based on the evidence you have consulted, what do you think? • How important is this site to American history? • Why is this site important? • What are some of the consequences of its creation? • What are some of the unintended consequences because of its creation?

  11. Sources • History of Malmstrom Air Force Base: http://www.malmstrom.af.mil/library/history/malmstromhistory.asp • Centennial of Army Aviation (Army Air Corps): http://www.army.mil/aviation/aircorps/index.html • Commentary—Wing historian reflects on honor, heritage of one of Malmstrom’s oldest squadrons: http://www.malmstrom.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123063281 • Factsheets: Lend-Lease: Aircraft to the Soviet Union: http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=1668 • Missions Part One: From the Signal Corps to the Air Corps: http://www.airforce.com/learn-about/history/part1/ • Soviet Air Power and Victory in World War II by Dr. George W. Collins: http://www.airpower.au.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1974/may-jun/collins.html • Army Air Forces Historical Association: Was it the Air Corps or Army Air Forces in WWII? http://www.aafha.org/aaf_or_aircorps.html • Chapter 5.0 ALSIB Lend-Lease and the Air Transport Command: http://www.usarak.army.mil/conservation/WWII_LaddField/Ch5.pdf

  12. Step Five: CONCLUDE

  13. Step Five: CONCLUDE Most critical mission during WWII was the Air Base’s support of Russia’s defense against Germany through the Lend-Lease Program. This is largely down played because of the Cold War. Evidence from the Russian perspective is difficult to locate and narratives were largely re-written as the Soviet Union rose to power.

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