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- Connecting with community through oral history
- In Oral history in the classroom, page 5
- Through interviews and photographs, Harnett County students learn about their community's agricultural past.
- By Jean Sweeney Shawver.
- Incorporating oral history into the K–12 curriculum
- In Oral history in the classroom, page 3
- Oral history techniques for use with students at all levels, from kindergarten through high school.
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- The not-so-famous person report
- In Rethinking Reports, page 3.2
- Instead of teaching the history of the famous, use research in primary sources to teach students that the past and present were made by people like them.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Oral history and student learning
- In Oral history in the classroom, page 2
- Oral history enriches historical knowledge; enhances research, writing, thinking, and interpersonal skills; gives students a connection to the community; and helps all students feel included.
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- Oral history links and resources
- In Oral history in the classroom, page 6
- Guides, tips, lesson plans, and examples of student projects on the web.
- Format: article
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- Ten questions for planning an oral history project
- In Oral history in the classroom, page 4
- Plan ahead to avoid frustration and to ensure that your students get as much as possible out of an oral history project.
- By Kathryn Walbert.
- Tobacco bag stringing: Elementary activity four
- In this activity for grades 3–6, students will read and evaluate a primary source letter from the Tobacco Bag Stringing collection. This should be done after Activity one, which is the introductory activity about tobacco bag stringing. Students will investigate the influence of technology, and its lack, on the tobacco bag stringers. They will do a role play/debate in which they will assume the roles of owners of companies and other people that were involved in the issue.
- Format: article (grade 3–5 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Tobacco bag stringing: Elementary activity three
- In this activity for grades 3–6, students will read and evaluate primary source letters from the Tobacco Bag Stringing collection. This should be done after Activity one, which is the introductory activity about tobacco bag stringing.
- Format: article (grade 3–5 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- The value of oral history
- In Oral history in the classroom, page 1
- Why use oral history with your students? Oral history has benefits that no other historical source provides.
- By Kathryn Walbert.
