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Article: Radio days in the classroom.
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- Social Education
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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WHAT SOCIAL STUDIES PROJECT challenges students with interdisciplinary learning, engages their various abilities and learning styles, offers them the opportunity for collaborative work-and encourages them to speak in strange voices? The answer is an eighth grade radio drama project. For most of the month of March 2004, the entire eighth grade at Edgemont Junior/Senior High School in Scarsdale, New York, was transported back to the early days of radio. They learned about the history of radio and how it changed our society, studied some of the most famous examples of radio drama, built their own crystal radios, visited the Museum of Television and Radio in New York City, and ...