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Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
![Photo, [Old hermit Roy Ozmer. . . ], 1957, Flickr Commons](/sites/default/files/styles/splash_thumb_images/public/Reading-and-Thinking.jpg?itok=f7GCc3Xk "Photo, [Old hermit Roy Ozmer reading a book at his house : Pelican Key, Florida], December 1957, State Library and Archives of Florida, Flickr Commons")
Watch this flash movie for a peek at how historians read and question [...] »
What does architecture say about the past and the present? TAH teachers [...] »
What can an inventory tell you about daily life in Delaware in 1804? Curator [...] »
Historian Rosemarie Zagarri reads the Declaration of Independence closely, [...] »
What do these letters from a women's rights activist reveal about social [...] »
Teaching in Action
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
An 8th-grade teacher asks: Was early 20th-century America a "melting pot" or [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Improve your historical analysis skills by learning about different types of [...] »
This website by the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery will help students [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »