Far Away & Long Ago - Teaching History to Young Students

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Read a chapter free online from Far Away and Long Ago: Young Historians in the Classroom (Stenhouse Publishing, 1997), about a teacher who made teaching history more meaningful to her students and more rewarding for herself.

Find out how author Monica Edinger, a fourth-grade teacher, working with co-author Stephanie Fins, an anthropologist, moved from teaching strictly by the textbook to developing more open-ended units. In the first chapter, "Teaching About the Past," Edinger talks about looking beyond the textbook by first learning more about history herself.

Find out more about the book and the authors and start reading chapter 1.