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Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
A student demonstrates thinking aloud reading two documents.
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Whitman Ridgway outlines some of the context in which the Bill of Rights was [...] »
Historian Christopher Hamner introduces educators to the World War II [...] »
See sourcing in action, as a historian reads a document about the Scopes [...] »
Ford's Theatre Society's Sarah Jencks leads teachers through Abraham Lincoln [...] »
Teaching in Action
The fictional Alphonse the Camel provides insight for one classroom.
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Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
Using Primary Sources
What messages are hidden in art and architecture? Explore the Library of [...] »
Use the Stanford History Education Group's curriculum to teach historical [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »