Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
128 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm. |
|
text txt rdacontent |
|
unmediated n rdamedia |
|
volume nc rdacarrier |
Series |
The Brown paper school |
|
Brown paper school.
|
Summary |
Activities and projects, such as making time capsules and rubbings and tracing genealogy, demonstrate that learning about the past begins at home. |
Contents |
Whatshisname -- A test! -- Getting a line on your past -- A birthday time capsule -- Xerox makes time machines -- Wow, have you got ancestors? -- A family map -- Out on a limb of the family tree -- Families come in all shapes and sizes -- Eating your way through history -- Pop, mood and rock -- The mirrored image -- Hand-me-down history -- History that talks -- Friday night at Grandma's -- Clark Kent, Decoder rings, and ovaltine -- How'd they say it? -- Thingamajig -- History in the yellow pages -- History at the cemetery -- At the corner of Yolo and Poonkinney -- 1890's auction: a history game -- More telephone book history -- Two wings, four wings, sometimes more wings -- History on a park bench -- Whatever happened to Main Street? -- Hanging around Old Town -- A-l-l aboard! -- Rubbing -- And rubbling -- Rusty history -- What's that doing here? -- Collected old buildings -- History in a small way. |
Subject |
United States -- History, Local -- Juvenile literature.
|
|
Local history -- Juvenile literature.
|
|
History.
|
|
Local history.
|
|
United States -- History, Local.
|
|
Local history. (OCoLC)fst01001400
|
|
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
|
|
United States -- Genealogy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
|
|
United States -- History -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
|
|
History.
|
|
Local history.
|
|
United States -- Local history.
|
Genre/Form |
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
|
|
Local history. (OCoLC)fst01411631
|
Added Author |
Robertson, James, 1935- illustrator.
|
Added Title |
My backyard history book |
ISBN |
0316929018 |
|
9780316929011 |
|