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Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
On the website Historical Thinking Matters, a student reads aloud a [...] »
Professor Meredith Lair examines a 1971 political cartoon and what it says [...] »
Two letters from 1800 Tripoli lead into a story of piracy, privateering, [...] »
Today, we accept paper—and electronic—money as a fact of life. Historian [...] »
How does the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial in Washington, DC, depict Grant and [...] »
Teaching in Action
Sixth graders in Prince William County film their interpretations of the [...] »
Two practices help students to make sense of primary source documents on the [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Analyze art in the classroom with these resources from the Picturing [...] »
So you don't live near Gettysburg or the Alamo—can you still teach with [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Make the most of your textbook—engage students in close reading and analysis [...] »
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »