iQ Smartparent: Teachable Moments
History and Street Names
5/26/2020 | 1mVideo has Closed Captions
See how a neighborhood walk observing street name signs can lead to a history lesson.
Joe Welch, North Hills Middle School American History and Social Studies teacher, shows how a neighborhood walk observing street name signs can lead to a history lesson.
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iQ Smartparent: Teachable Moments is a local public television program presented by WQED
iQ Smartparent: Teachable Moments
History and Street Names
5/26/2020 | 1mVideo has Closed Captions
Joe Welch, North Hills Middle School American History and Social Studies teacher, shows how a neighborhood walk observing street name signs can lead to a history lesson.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(bright music) - Hi, my name is Joe Welch, a history teacher at North Hills, and this is my Teachable Moment.
Today we're gonna go out into the neighborhood and look for a street that is named after somebody famous, and then figure out why that person is famous.
So here we go.
Let's go and take a walk together.
(bright music) - Hey, Dad, it's Grant Circle.
- It is Grant Circle.
Let's see if we can figure out why Grant Circle is named after Grant.
Let's go home and check it out.
All right, Julia, I think it might be because of a man named Ulysses Grant.
I'm on a website called PBS Learning Media.
I typed in his name, and hey, look at that.
There's a 60-second video about President Grant.
Should we watch it?
(bright music) - That was fun.
Grant was the 18th president.
- And a famous Civil War general.
I hope you had fun.
I challenge you to go out into your neighborhood and find a street named after somebody famous.
Have fun.
- Bye, friends!
- Bye!
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