Essay About Classroom History

I have picked up a lot this semester, the standards, the social studies fair, and then all of the lesson plans. I enjoy how each of the topic was treated as a separate unit in the classroom. The current events is something maybe too advanced for the children the age I’m going to teach, but I think its defiantly important to keep the children informed about the world around them. During each unit I could have the children watch the news and pick something that happened, to reflect on. I have reconsidered quite a bit about the topic, including things like how certain events in history should be taught. For instance thanksgiving should be taught in a way that is not lying but is relatively censored, i.e.; not including the slaughter. When it came …show more content…
“Some change represents progress, some do not, and nevertheless change is universal.”(Page 214 Seefeldt) Teaching children change is vastly important due to frequency that it happens, laws and rules change almost every day. Also on top of that there are constantly being new people elected into the office. The last concept behind history is past, which is essentially what the world has grown from. What happened to make the world this way it is today? How has education changed, how have we taught history in the past. “Children are intensely interested in both the immediate and distant past. And although dates have little or no meaning, children as young as 5 years old, are able to recognize the difference between past and present and have demonstrated the ability to order events chronologically, using photographs and pictures with broad distinctions such as “Long ago” and “close to now” (Page 228, Seefeldt) Teaching the children about the past is a difficult because of the things that have happened. For example when we teach about thanksgiving we can teach a certain amount of the actual event, but some of it is just not appropriate for children. Setting the classroom up for history could be