Series: Teaching with Historic Places Program and Where Did History Happen?: Selections from CRM, Vol 16, no 2 (1993)

America recognizes thousands of historic places that are dramatic and enticing because of their associations with revered events and people, their beauty, or their mystery. The basic building blocks for the Teaching with Historic Places program are lesson plans based on properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

• Article 1: Teaching with Historic Places: Where Did History Happen?

  

  The basic building blocks for the Teaching with Historic Places program are lesson plans based on properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Read more

• Article 2: Teaching with Historic Places: Creating a Partnership

  

  In 1991, the National Park Service and the National Trust for Historic Preservation formed a partnership to launch an ambitious program using properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places to educate our young people. Read more

• Article 3: Teaching with Historic Places: Heritage Education: What is Going On Out There?

  The National Trust and the National Park Service developed their collaborative Teaching with Historic Places program to build on the strengths of many excellent programs already in place, and to address some of the gaps in existing educational material. Read more

• Article 4: Teaching with Historic Places: Prominent Places for Historic Places: K-12 Social Studies Curriculum

  

  The historic places in the National Register can be used by teachers and students as objects of inquiry, in the same way that written primary sources are used in the classrooms of good history teachers. Read more

• Article 5: Teaching with Historic Places: Notes on Location and Place

  

  Places are building blocks for geographical knowledge; providers of experience in making sense of the landscape; stages for events; and reminders that humans require space to live, work, play, and prosper. People create and imprint places according to their distinctive knowledge, levels of technology, historical development, and even whimsy. Places are involved in important decisions, both personal and corporate. Read more

• Article 6: Teaching with Historic Places: Being Selective: Documents and Lesson Plans

  

  Documents play a central role in the lesson plan format. Written and visual materials, designed as handouts and used in conjunction with activities and questions, provide the information students need to attain the objectives of the lesson plans. Read more