True Learning:
A Renaissance in Education and Authentic Learning
Chapter 8:
The Foundation of Culture:
Social Studies and History.
SECONDARY RESEARCH
Choose a topic.
Next, think of lots of ideas related to it.
This is chain thinking.
Find information about the topics from
a variety of resources: books, websites, films, vidoes.
On the Internet. Be alert.
The accuracy of the sources may change
as people change the information.
ORIGINAL or PRIMARY RESEARCH
Interview those
who experienced the event.
Share what you learn with
your classmates.
History is a gallery
of pictures in which
there are few originals
an d many copies.
Alexander de Tocqueville