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Spotlight on Elementary Education
Example of Historical Thinking
On the website Historical Thinking Matters, a student reads aloud a [...] »
How can you get teachers thinking about monuments and memorials as secondary [...] »
What connections do documents related to the Jackie Robinson Testimonial [...] »
How does a political cartoon use popular beliefs about women to make its [...] »
Professor Meredith Lair examines a 1971 political cartoon and what it says [...] »
Teaching in Action
Discover the multiple strategies 5th-grade teacher Jennifer Brouhard uses in [...] »
Did two bullets begin WWI? Explore causation in your classroom.
[...] »Using Primary Sources
Analyze art in the classroom with these resources from the Picturing [...] »
Discover historic landscapes with this guide to reading the land produced by [...] »
Teaching with Textbooks
Allow students to see that history as we know it is interpretation, [...] »
Class discussion and personal inquiry builds an interactive relationship [...] »
The language of history textbooks challenges English language learners and [...] »
Turn your textbook into a conversation by scanning its language for biases [...] »
Turn your students into 'master chefs' by using learning menus that allow [...] »