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Colonial Williamsburg creates textbook material about America’s history

Pearson Scott Forseman Logo The partnership of Colonial Williamsburg and Pearson Scott Foresman marks the nation’s first history education partnership between a textbook publisher and a living history museum. Colonial Williamsburg will create, develop and provide material for Pearson Scott Foresman, the world’s leading elementary educational publisher. The textbooks are designed to help teachers engage, excite and inspire their students about America’s history.

Colonial Williamsburg, the nation’s largest living history museum and leading provider of early American history content, announced the partnership at the 2003 annual meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies.

In addition, Colonial Williamsburg has developed a special technology resource for Scott Foresman Social Studies. CD-ROMs titled “Think Like A Historian” use a variety of primary sources to teach young students to model their thinking after that of historians. The two CD-ROMs – one for grades 1- 3, and another for grades 4 - 6 – introduce students to oral histories, storytelling, images, the written word, and a variety of other primary sources, and to the sound practices of historical research. Available at the Colonial Williamsburg Visitor Center Book Store or by catalog order at: http://www.history.org/history/teaching/objects_sale.cfm.

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