Looking into the Past - Standard 2/Grade 4 (for North West, Free State, Northern Cape) (Paperback)

The Looking into the past series offers an innovative approach to teaching history using a method, content and illustrations, which have been thoroughly tested in schools throughout South Africa. This superbly illustrated book: * introduces a skills-based, interactive methodology for teaching and learning history, which recurs throughout the series; * familiarises pupils with skills, concepts and vocabulary they need for the more formal study of history in higher grades; * allows children to become historians as they discover that they have histories both a individuals and as part of a community; * invites pupils to interpret the past for themselves with the help of objects, photographs and oral and written evidence; * encourages pupils to talk, draw, act and write as they learn; * contains exciting, true stories in full-colour comic-strips and dialogue form as well as lively narrative texts.