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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: country bob who wrote (110620)	1/17/2006 5:17:32 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

I think it is vitally important for people to be aware of and take an interest in history. The problem with history is it SEEMS to be boring because it is poorly taught. We should get the best history teachers to make it come alive, because then people will pay attention to it. I still remember American History from high school. The Gadsen Purchase, 54-40 or fight!, Cabeza de Vaca, Ponce de Leon -- even the Civil War and The Dredd Scott Decision. It was boring! Because there is no attempt to link those events to the way things are today. When I was in Alaska, I got a letter from a gradeschool class that wanted information about clearcutting. I knew they had no idea of what they were asking about, so I downloaded a historical vegetation map in GIS format of the town where they lived. I printed this map on a big plotter and sent it to them, along with a letter explaining what it was. I showed that the area at one time was densely forested, and that now their homes and their school stood in the middle of a giant clearcut. I don't think the teacher really expected what he got from me. I got an acknowledgment, but no feedback about the possibility of discussion in his class about what I had told them.