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Sheldon Community History Traveling Trunk Project, Jan M. Kinderknecht
Sheldon Community History Traveling Trunk Project, Jan M. Kinderknecht
Graduate Research Papers
National, state, and local standards guide education in what is taught in the classrooms today. A lack of resources is often a problem in teaching these standards, especially at the local level. The Sheldon third grade teachers needed resources to fulfill the teaching expectations about their local community. The purpose of this project was to develop a traveling trunk filled with primary and secondary resources to be used in the teaching of a social studies unit on the community of Sheldon. Deciding what people, places, and events to include in these resources is often a concern. Another concern was what …