teacher planning

“There are places we all come from, deeply rooted common places that make us who we are. There is a sense in which we need to go home again to sanctify memory”
~ Fulgham

With your family choose a picture from your family's past. Now digitally edit the picture by inserting your face/body. All of a sudden,you are also a part of that historical photo You have made a whole new world. Now write about it. Take us there - and make something really interesting happen.

Extend this idea into a larger project for older students by using the ideas below.

Extend the idea into a larger project for younger students by using the ideas below. Involve experts to help shape the final product.

Do you have a family treasure that tells a story? Or is there an interesting monument, building or site if your town? Choose an intriguing object and interview people who can tell you about it. This could be an object you have always loved, or maybe it is something so familiar you have never really thought about it before.

Either way, start to look at it with a historian's eye: Where did this come from? And how can you tell others its story?