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Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
Letters from U.S. soldiers during the Philippine-American War reveal [...] »
If the U.S. interned you and your family, how would you respond?
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Smithsonian Barbara Clark Smith looks at what a colonial newspaper article [...] »
How did the World War II internment of Japanese Americans happen? Historian [...] »
Watch Suzannah Niepold of the Smithsonian American Art Museum guide teachers [...] »
Teaching in Action
An 8th-grade teacher asks: Was early 20th-century America a "melting pot" or [...] »
Watch 4th-graders analyze cartoons about Virginia and Brown v. Board of [...] »
Using Primary Sources
Source and approach letters and diaries with historical thinking.
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Incorporate art into lesson plans with this resource from The Metropolitan [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Help students identify with the past via children who lived through the [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Show your students how to challenge the authority gap between the textbook [...] »
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »