Unit 2: Find out about the history of a local area

Unit 2: Find out about the histor y of a local area

Learning objectives

After completing this unit, you must be able to do the following:

 Research the past and apply it to local history. You must be able to find a wide variety of information about the past.  Collect information, for example from texts, visual material (photos, pictures, television and movies), songs, poems and interviews with people.  Use more than one type of written source such as books, magazines, newspapers and websites.

Introduction

In Unit 1 we saw how to go about gathering information. Now learners can put these skills to good use to find out about the history of a local area. They can use pictures/photos and documents. Other good ideas are to conduct interviews or investigate objects that were found in that specific area.

Pretoria was chosen as a local area. The photos, documents, interviews and objects are all from people who live in Pretoria or buildings in the city.

Discuss with learners if there are any sources available of their own area and use these sources during this lesson.