Teaching History with Film: Strategies for Secondary Social Studies

by Scott Alan Metzger, Richard J. Paxton, Alan S. Marcus, et al.

Book Overview

Visit any school in the United States and chances are that you will find at least one of the social studies teachers showing a film about history. Along with the textbook, movies are one of the most prominent teaching aids in the history classroom. Yet, when middle and high school history teachers look for models of the effective use of motion pictures in history classrooms, the cupboard is surprisingly bare. Teaching History with Film provides...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415999561
• ISBN13: 9780415999564
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.8"