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An Integrated Approach To Teaching Washington State History In A Seventh Grade Humanities Block, Erika Lee Martin
An Integrated Approach To Teaching Washington State History In A Seventh Grade Humanities Block, Erika Lee Martin
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For the 2002-2003 school year, Sultan School District (WA) made the decision to move the Washington State History course from the high school level to be taught at the middle school level, specifically in the seventh grade Humanities block for a semester. This decision was made to be in compliance with the future state Social Studies requirements. Since the Humanities course was already based on the theory of integrating Geography with Language Arts, a new curriculum needed to be developed to incorporate the new Washington State History material. A team of teachers decided to take this task on and develop …