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| Project Leader: | Rachel Turner rkt002@tamu.edu Teaching, Learning & Culture |
| Faculty Mentor: | Lynn M. Burlbaw, Ph.D. |
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Meeting Times:
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Sundays 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
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Team Size:
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6 (Team Full) |
| Open Spots: | 0 |
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Special Opportunities:
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Participants will have the opportunity to earn co-authorship in a paper and/or presentation. Additionally, students have the opportunity to gain research and academic writing experience as well as earn research credit. |
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Team Needs:
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Participants must be accountable and self-motivated with a strong work ethic. Participants should enjoy gathering information verbally as well as through analysis of printed materials. |
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Description:
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As elementary and middle school students study the social studies, their depth of understanding is often limited by the lack of biographical information regarding the people within history. Using narratives and the biographies of people from around the world can provide students with greater understanding of the economic, social, political and environmental factors that shape their lives. Participants in this project will work to collect primary and secondary source materials on people who are represented in the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills. These TEKS are what make up the elementary and middle school students social studies curriculum. The objective is to collect historical accounts for the purpose of preparing them for use by the elementary and middle school social studies teacher. We hope this will allow teachers to engage students more profoundly by allowing them to interact with first-hand accounts of real people whose lives are/were affected by the unique facets of their world. Sources will be gathered through analysis of recorded materials, archival data and library resources. Upon the completion of data gathering it is our intention to make the narratives suitable for elementary and middle school use and then compile them into a collection for use by teachers. Additionally, this research will be conducted with the goal of earning a publication in a historical or educational peer-reviewed journal.
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