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This website is the product of a year-long
collaboration among Breor Elementary School, the Center for Computer-Based
Instructional Technology at the University of Massachusetts, Hatfield Historical
Society, and the Hatfield Historical Commission. The technology coordinator at
Breor worked with curriculum and technology specialists at CCBIT to bring
history to third grade students. |
| Each student chose a different
historical event, person or building to investigate. They were taught note taking
skills and became experts in their specific area.
They visited sites in town to learn about Hatfield's past. Students were able to
use primary documents, text books and other primary source documents that were
digitized for internet use. |
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We created a work board and then students created a brochure
about their topic. Students also created a timeline.
After completing their research, students learned a
web-authoring program with the aid of the computer lab coordinator and
created this website. |
| This project meets the Massachusetts State curriculum framework in History and
Social Studies, particularly learning standard #3 on research, evidence, and
point of view. The standard states that: "Students will acquire the ability to
frame questions that can be answered by historical study and research; collect ,
evaluate and employ information from primary and secondary sources, and to apply
it in oral and written presentations." |
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