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Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking

What can a photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 reveal? Donald A. [...] »

Analyzing a source requires context for a more complete understanding.
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Watch Smithsonian curator Barbara Clark Smith discuss John Smith’s Map of [...] »

A student demonstrates thinking aloud reading two documents.
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What does architecture say about the past and the present? TAH teachers [...] »
Teaching in Action

Discover the multiple strategies 5th-grade teacher Jennifer Brouhard uses in [...] »

Eighth-grade teacher Amy Trenkle keeps students on-task before, during, and [...] »
Using Primary Sources

National History Day identifies secondary sources along with [...] »

Incorporate art into lesson plans with this resource from The Metropolitan [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks

Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »

Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »

Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »

The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »

Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »