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Project facilitators
Shukufa Najafova, Azerbaijan,
Rimma Zhukova, Russia,
Scott Parker, USA,
Oleg Zhukov (student), Russia,
Project Website:
http://media.iearn.org/projects/localhistory
Project blog:
http://localhistoryshukufa.blogspot.com
Quotes
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
Pearl Buck If we forget our history, we lose the
tight contact with ancient roots. Tomas Jefferson The challenge of history is to recover
the past and introduce it to the present. David Thelen "...from their first days animals find
the way to their holes, birds fly in the air and know the way to their nests, fishes swim in the see and in the rivers but know their pools, bees defend their hives, so people must have a great love for their homes where they were born”
Frantsisk Skaryna
Description of the project
The Local History Project is a teacher-directed collaborative students project in which students research the history of their
communities and share their findings with their global peers.
The goal of the project
To teach the students to care about the place they live, appreciate his-torical and cultural envi-ronment, to care and re-spect older generations, to understand and ap-preciate a historical herit-age of the past and the
present.
To enhance awareness of the significance of local history to students’ present lives.
To develop research skills.
To form and develop academic skills, thinking, reasoning and teamwork skills.
To form and develop key foreign language competences and skills.
To develop ICT skills
Local History Project The Local History Project serves
the goals of the International Educa-tion and Resources Network (iEARN) and enables the youth and teachers to collaborate locally and globally, using IC technologies to enhance learning and make a difference in their own communities and around the world.
Learning with the world, not just about i t ...
Possible project/classroom activities:
e - m a i l e x c h a n g e ; f o r u m discussions; essay writing, sharing pictures and art; live sessions via Skype or Blackboard (Elluminate) to share culture, traditions, country cuisine and folklore and of course we value the thoughts of all project participants.
